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argotmeisterAug 10, 2010
Reminds me of the A.I. movie.
akamakavelyAug 10, 2010
Cylon!
NickCobbAug 10, 2010
So it's an assh**e?
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
AND a republican.
huntermcwhiteAug 11, 2010
"The robot — called Nao — has had its behaviour modelled on a young child."
so , yes.
ghostwoAug 11, 2010
It gives you the finger every time you tell it to do something.
steamintmannAug 11, 2010
Well, it did lie to its other Robot buddy. Threw out his duck, and told him he didnt know where it was. Similar to something I've done to an assh**e roommate of mine in the past. So yes.
innisskillinAug 10, 2010
Robots eh...... hmmm.....
theactionman07Aug 11, 2010
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untitlednetAug 11, 2010
And so it begins...
rawonthegoshowAug 11, 2010
Everyone knows VICI was the first robot to act like a human.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
Small Wonder was one of my favorite shows as a kid. That, Mr. Wizard, and Dangermouse/Count Duckula!
rawonthegoshowAug 11, 2010
The only human emotion robots need is "fake orgasm."
cokeeatsyummyAug 11, 2010
http://digg.com/general_sciences/First_Robot_Able_To_Develop_Show_Emotions_Is_Unveiled
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apocadallAug 11, 2010
There is a big difference between showing emotion and knowing what emotion is. Smiling because something happens is programmed, knowing why you smiled and why you're happy is something different.
ymegAug 11, 2010
How is that any different than the meat machine that is a human?
fordsvt1Aug 11, 2010
If you can't tell the difference between a human being and a robot performed to move some servos in order to approximate a smile because he was instructed to do so, there is no hope for you.
I smile when I see my wife after a long time away from her, I'm well aware why I do so.
ymegAug 11, 2010
The robot's version is an extremely crude emotion, but that's only a underdeveloped human brain. Humans still react to external stimuli, we are programed through our genes, but unlike the robot, we have the internal processes to store and reflect upon our reactions much longer.
If the answer is so obvious, would you mind explaining the difference?
theone12Aug 11, 2010
Until artificial intelligence is capable of metacognition, synthesizing conclusions, full awareness (whatever that might be...), there will still be a somewhat sizeable gap between robots and us meat bag humans.
Also..if a robot reaches these milestones...call you even call it a "robot" anymore?
clippclopAug 11, 2010
@Ford
Is it because you know the place will finally be cleaned up and you wont have to make food any more?
fordsvt1Aug 12, 2010
^I do the cooking; you wouldn't let your wife cook either if she was as bad at it as mine! lol
phillyocAug 11, 2010
Agreed. Self-awareness is one of the necessary traits of intelligent life. Until then they have only created a machine that mimics intelligence.
drsolaceAug 11, 2010
Well it sure is good that it's explained that the robot "acts" like a human, rather than "understands" like a human.
norman619Aug 11, 2010
It's just mimicking emotion not showing emotion.
srk998Aug 11, 2010
Emotion is very complex and is triggered by many underlying parameters. Robots are getting there.
Imagine this: a robot (an AI) reads a joke on Digg, then he/she/it laughs. He laughs because something happens (he reads a funny joke). He probably identified the joke to be funny based on the number of diggs (in simpler case). Now he also know why he laughed. He laughed because he read a bunch of words that classify as a joke and is conceived as funny by many others.
We, in many ways, are like robots. We wouldn't have the emotions we have if we weren't programmed that way. As a result we see difference in the type and amount of emotion in people of different origins, cultures, and environments.
fordsvt1Aug 12, 2010
But I don't laugh at something just because a bunch of other people did, or because a joke got Dugg a bunch of times.
Show me a computer that "understands" the humour in sarcasm or irony. We might get there some day, but programming a robot to react in a certain way every time it is exposed to a certain pre-programmed stimulus is not emotion or intelligence.
srk998Aug 12, 2010
Emotion is very complex and is triggered by many underlying parameters. Robots are getting there.
Imagine this: a robot (an AI) reads a joke on Digg, then he/she/it laughs. He laughs because something happens (he reads a funny joke). He probably identified the joke to be funny based on the number of diggs (in simpler case). Now he also know why he laughed. He laughed because he read a bunch of words that classify as a joke and is conceived as funny by many others.
We, in many ways, are like robots. We wouldn't have the emotions we have if we weren't programmed that way. As a result we see difference in the type and amount of emotion in people of different origins, cultures, and environments.
maverickpwnAug 11, 2010
Watched the vid, in no way does "showing emotion" equate to "having emotions" It just looks like it cowers at everything when really, we know it's plotting the downfall of humanity.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turing_Test
maverickpwnAug 11, 2010
Thanks for the link, I find it intriguing that as human perception is the basis for interpreting all interaction that the only thing that matters is not whether the machine thinks, but whether we perceive what it's doing as thinking.
grexeoAug 11, 2010
Thinking of getting one for your kids? Think again, they cost $15K each.
awtrippAug 11, 2010
In that case I'll take 10.
oxidaneAug 11, 2010
Why get one for your kids? Get one in place of your kids. You can do whatever you want to it without explaining yourself to the police. It can also be your slave, not like some fleshbag...
rainman21Aug 11, 2010
Make it learn "addiction" and give it an Xbox 360; it will quickly learn procrastination. No Robot Takeover for aleast a decade.
macparrotAug 11, 2010
Not to worry. Once you've given it an Xbox and it learns procrasitnation it will never learn procreation.
valisk61Aug 11, 2010
You can be sure it learns masturbation though.
jeo77Aug 11, 2010
>Would you like to play a game?
>How about Tic Tac Toe?
clippclopAug 11, 2010
Giving it a 360 will only teach it frustration once a red ring happens.
Teach it to masturbate, that should keep it occupied for a while.
necridAug 11, 2010
But then you would get all those aim bots online,
kgtheway2bAug 11, 2010
YES!
cloudberriesAug 11, 2010
Hey, but where's the HUMAN capable of showing ROBOT emotions? Eh? haha! Wait, no... what?
douglasqAug 11, 2010
He used to star in The X-Files.
professorriffsAug 11, 2010
I'm a top-level X-Files dork but that was funny s**t.
macparrotAug 11, 2010
Wouldn't that be nearly every Digg user?
acegidAug 11, 2010
Didn't it star in a movie where it stops bullets and go 'whoa'?
kgtheway2bAug 11, 2010
Hasn't the internet proven he can be sad?
douglasqAug 11, 2010
"Kill...me..."
giz0rAug 11, 2010
I, for one, welcome our new emo robot overlords.
peanutcheesebarAug 11, 2010
Omitted from the article: The creators of the robot also programmed it to cry, using Tim Tebow as a human model and reference point.
weedwackAug 11, 2010
so its inherently unsatisfied?
isenborgAug 11, 2010
I know this is supposed to be amazing, but it kind of seems... lame.
phillyocAug 11, 2010
Great. Now we don't need people anymore.
phillyocAug 11, 2010
In before Skynet jokes.
kgtheway2bAug 11, 2010
Too late actually...
huggsandkissesAug 11, 2010
"Kill all humans...must kill all humans....."
knightraineAug 11, 2010
Showing and having are two vastly different things, but its a tabloid source anyway so they have to magnify it. But please... boffins? Can we please make sure that stupid word doesn't catch on any further than it already has?
pobotrolAug 11, 2010
But that's the Sun's standard term for anyone who can string more than two words together.
valisk61Aug 11, 2010
Cannot see! Cannot see! Can only smell.
Cheesoid kill self with petril.
Why petril not burn? Hates self. Hates self...
acegidAug 11, 2010
It would look human only if it didn't behave like a socially awkward nerd trying to look normal picking up an object.
itislateAug 11, 2010
so what's the endgame here?
norman619Aug 11, 2010
Your bedroom perhaps?
mediacloudsAug 11, 2010
Asimo is the most spectacular robot, but this one is cute :)
tokeliAug 11, 2010
Eh. Add an 8-bit-looking LED screen for a face to Asimo and program these emotions in instead of making cheap looking things.
morcheebaAug 11, 2010
Humans have been acting like robots since at least the 60's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_(dance)
^ This is why wikipedia rocks. Could you imagine a whole series on popping/strobing/tutting/waving/floating/electric boogaloo in a traditional encyclopedia?
frostedAug 11, 2010
Kill all humans?
cmatthes1Aug 11, 2010
http://www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/opinion/1/
4th law of robotics
Stop fingering my wife
dannychen16Aug 11, 2010
can someone tell The Sun to stop dumping their trash here.
huntermcwhiteAug 11, 2010
Where is the giant laser?
method7670Aug 11, 2010
And the robot apocalypse begins.... /s
lancer78Aug 11, 2010
Did anyone else read that title "First Robot to Kill a Human?" I swear that's what it said then I read it again and it changed. Did this happen to anyone else?
Closed AccountAug 11, 2010
More input, Stephanie!
xamoxAug 11, 2010
f**k off. You aren't the first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB63c9rMtGM
The PR2 robot had this in it's design quite some time ago as well.
professorriffsAug 11, 2010
Yes but it's not recognizing a person doing something and reacting accordingly.
vvcepheiAug 11, 2010
It doesnt act human at all. This might aswell be called "Another robot that walks as if it needs to take a s**t"
linespinAug 11, 2010
yep. combine that with liquid metal, and some other "innovations" coming out in the next 20-30 years, and add another 50-100 years of development in computing power and .. well.. you get the picture.
7king7kingAug 11, 2010
Does it mean it's the first robot to act stupid?
fiachra06Aug 11, 2010
I'm pretty confused by this article. The video shown is the a 2 year old marketing video by Aldebaran (which is a French company based in Paris) to sell that particular model of robot. The new version (I have one on my desk beside me) has a much faster and more stable walk but are still as irritating to work with as you might imagine they are from the video.
The robot itself is not sold with the skynet brand of human emotion installed (unfortunately) so they must have bought one in Hertfordshire University and are doing some undetailed emotional stuff with it. Or Hertfordshire designed it 3 years ago and are claming that some crap pre-scripted demos count as human emotion.
So If someone in Hertfordshire University want to fill us in on why the Sun is talking s**t I'd love to know.
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robhidalgoAug 11, 2010
What the hell is a boffin?
sifoodAug 11, 2010
Robin Williams?
vitriolandangstAug 11, 2010
Well, according to this british marketing company - this is the FIRST of its kind. And by "showing emotion" that's probably a scripted routine of moving plastic eyebrows and shrugging shoulders --- much like the dozens of other "emotional" robots.
shutthefrntdoorAug 11, 2010
P=/=NP
aetasxAug 11, 2010
Now if only we could get people to act like actual people.....
deleoAug 11, 2010
Wow, the video is actually kind of impressive. Sure the robot looks like a mechanical toy. But it does speak and respond to things in a pretty advanced way.
tgc1Aug 11, 2010
Is it just me or did that Robot just lie to the other robot?
"Did you see my duck?"
"No... I'm sorry..." meanwhile "'cause I threw it in the garbage you stupid f**k! Muahahaha"
I really do wonder if that Robot in its circuits somewhere is thinking that. And secretly plotting to push the other robot down the stairs. I can see it now.
maxarissAug 11, 2010
Didn't we learn ANYTHING from the matrix ?? bahaha
2noameAug 14, 2010
You mean how the first robot to act human was actually Keanu Reeves?
atsymbolAug 11, 2010
John Henry?
gkiltzAug 12, 2010
Every previous time in history that we thought we had a machine as smart as a human, we learned only that our understanding of human intelligence was so over-simplistic as to be dead wrong.
This will be no different.