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Social Robot?
smashr writes "Researchers are currently putting the finishing touches on robots that will be attending the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) conference this year as part of the AAAI robot challenge. In addition to robots wearing tuxedos and serving drinks, several robots designed to actually register themselves will be participating in the conference. One such robot is GRACE, being built by Carnegie Mellon University and the Naval Research Lab (among others). GRACE features a digital face and speech recognition to interact with people attending the conference. (She even runs Linux!) Her goal is to register for the conference, give a speech and answer questions. Stories at: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CNN.com, and USA Today."
Gosh, I wonder what else lonely geeks will be developing robots for!
Zaphod B
When duplication is outlawed, only outlaws will have
Robots with social skills? Dear God, they've surpassed 80% of the population of /.!
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Is she available for dating? I have a Apple IIgs I've been trying to get hooked up. It's been rather depressed lately.
everyone I know that runs linux is male (unfortunately).
"Her goal is to register for the conference, give a speech and answer questions."
Given the audience, I wonder how many questions will be answered with, "No, I won't meet you in your hotel room."
Its an interesting paradox that the nerdiest of computer geeks are programming robots to interact socially...
These people are the most qualified and least qualified at the same time!
How can they imply a machine as female when it does not even reproduce? Not only that, they have no sexual organs, nor sex chromosome! Most ironic part is, all the photo has shown MEN constructing the machines!!! If they really want to respect the other gender, they should have put female engineers at work instead of making a poor excuse of 'female robot'.
touch, finger, uzip, configure(you know what i mean *wink*), mount, force, make, umount, sleep
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
You should rent 'Ice Pirates'. Plenty in there.
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Robots that will attend the AAA [aaa.com] (American Automobile Association)... If robots will really do that - they'll be really social robots!
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Of course, you'll know the robots have gotten too social when they start attending AA.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
...before the organization is renamed "The American Association of Artificial Intelligences"?
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She'd get along great with Gaak, the robot that escaped from its masters and made it to the parking lot. I see a wonderful romance developing, or at least a great Thelma-and-Louise chase scene.
On a related note, wouldn't a battle bot capable of social engineering the judges be a great thing? "I protest! My opponent is cheating!" "Never mind that broken wheel, t'is but a flesh wound!" Of course, she'd have be toughened up and given a weapon of some kind; sarcastic banter vs. a wedge is hardly a fair fight.
"solicited drama students to teach GRACE how to act like a human so it will make people feel comfortable"
:)
You have to give the builders points for knowing their limitations.
I went to CMU and the drama students are the *last* people I'd go to if I wanted to teach a robot to act "human."
It was the worst Christmas ever.
Corn_Boy - oh no! sparks, did anything catch on fire
Lowtax - Grandma did, but I got a Pusher robot to shove her outside into the snow."
Credit where credit is due
- Driving itself to the conference in an inconspicuous, beat-up old 2040-model car?
- Spilling its drink on an attractive woman's shirt and taking first-person-perspective photos of the cleanup efforts?
- Fooling the attendees into believing it is a real person?
- Fooling the other robots posing as attendees into believing it is a real person?
- Fooling the attendees into believing they are real people?
By those standards, registering oneself for the conference, giving a speech and answering questions seems easy."What is your goal?"
"Why does it make you feel that way that What is my goal?"
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.