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Tag: empathy
Zora, the Robot Caregiver
Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver
“Patients have told the robot things about their health they wouldn’t share with doctors.”
Lots of great quotes in this article…
My roomba is scared of thunderstorms
My roomba is scared of thunderstorms
I was sitting at my desk just a few minutes ago, drawing, and a really loud crack of thunder went off–no power surges or anything, just thunder–and my roomba fled from its dock and started spinning in circles
I currently now have an active roomba sitting quietly on my lap
Hal was built to suffer. He is a medical training robot […]. No longer must nurses train on lifeless mannequins. Hal can shed tears, bleed, and urinate.
New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
What People See in 157 Robot Faces
What People See in 157 Robot Faces
If you want people to view your robot as intelligent, consider giving it eyebrows.
Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’
Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’
Rather, the present urgency, according to pop culture, is around this: Will advanced AI deserve human rights? Should we cut back on cursing out Siri as she gets savvier, or outlaw kicking the next generation’s Furby?
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It’s especially easy to empathize with Black Mirror’s digital ghosts because they are derived from real people. Yet in the show’s universe, too few people do empathize. Which raises the dark question of how much worse people would treat entities that don’t so blatantly resemble their friends but still do have a rich, lively consciousness.
Painting with a Roomba and International Klein Blue
Addie Wagenknecht, Self portrait–loneliness is what we can’t do for each other. IKB dry pigment and resin on canvas. 80 x 90 in / 203.2 x 228.6 cm. 2017. Courtesy of bitforms gallery.
[…] as we become more dependent on digital devices to mediate our actions and interactions, we begin to experience them as “creatures” instead of machines and form bonds with them.
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AI prosthesis training for the purification ritual of “skin-cutting”
Amygdala uses adaptive neural networks to learn a ritual of skin cutting by training on itself. By exploring its own body and environment the robot learn how to move and how to cut its skin.
Amygdala is a project by Marco Donnarumma.
Kiss my bot
Savioke obviously thinks we are all into kissing and taking selfies with robots that mostly look like garbage bins on weels.