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Inventor Builds Robot Wife
Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
But it starts with the premise that dumb people breed... a LOT. While the smart people, well, this here is one extreme.
Giving us the resulting societies we are in.
...even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
1) Nope, not convincing
2) So it faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife? Except that it has an off switch*...
* /me is going to hell for that one
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even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
Don't you mean *Quiver*
Operator, give me the number for 911!
"even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm."
Like ALL women! AMAZING!
Come on! . . Why would the readers of Slashdot be interested in this type of subject?
Wait a second. . .
but it feels sooooo right
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At least in Star Wars they did a better job of following the script. Watch her trace the glasses. She moves her head and then he follows with the glasses. She is ahead of him. Seems dubious to me.
Just callin' it like I see it.
dont make "your wife" jokes to this guy, she will find you and chase you around with a truck to ultimatly be thrown in a smelter "come with me if you want to live" ~Sumer Glau
I mean, he had the chance to design his own wife, and look how flat-chested he made her.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Harcourt Fenton Mudd!!!
Also, his command for her to read Japanese was not actually a Japanese command. It was an English command translated to Japanese (i.e. in English a command is issued with just the uninflected simple non-past verb, whereas it has to be conjugated to form a command--and there are several politeness levels--in Japanese).
What we are seeing here is a creepy foreigner with a creepy Japanese otaku fetish.
Shudder? Ick? Oh, please. Don't pretend you haven't thought about it.
I hate people who pretend to be above it all .. it usually turns out that they are actually doing the dirty along with everyone else, they just don't want anyone else to find out about it.
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It's an old, old story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl.
(Shamelessly stolen from my uncle the science fiction writer.)
Given what he's trying to do here, I would say your if clause is false.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Reminds me of that xkcd cartoon...
Man: Aiko, make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Access denied.
Man: Aiko, sudo make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Turkey, or ham?
Trying to install linux on my microwave, but keep getting a kernel panic...
that part did seem rather awkward. it doesn't help that the article tries to play up the capabilities of the robot.
right... how does she get him a drink or clean the house without being able to walk? i don't see any wheels attached to her in any of the photos. typical media sensationalism...
this story seems to be more hype than substance. it's just a creepy nerd who's added speakers and some actuators to his Real Doll(tm). i don't see any technology demonstrated here that hasn't already existed in some form or another in various children's toys from the 80's and 90's.
i mean, does /. really have nothing better to put up on the front page than fluff pieces from The Sun? this kind of tripe might impress technologically illiterate housewives, but it doesn't belong on a site purportedly aimed at nerds.
A couple minutes from the end, he forgets the question briefly, stutters a little, and breaks his usual pace--and she answers the question anyway, even though he hasn't gotten it out yet.
I'm 99% sure this is scripted. There's not much evidence here that she's anything more than a RealDoll Ruxpin. There's probably -some- computer control there, assuming it's not a remote-control Mechanical Turk, given that it responded to the "stop!" commands. The rest? I'll believe it when it's not just him asking the questions.
It'll be interesting when people can order customized versions of this... I can imagine the shop will get calls similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Irs1ewDoM one of my favourite prank calls. Enjoy
... can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those. Ok, even two would do. Twins, maybe ...
Perfect image recognition + perfect handwriting recognition all decoded and read out in real time AND doing the maths too?
Sorry , but this is a fraud - its nothing more than a pre-programmed voice box he's set up beforehand and he then puts the correct thing in front of it at the right time so it looks like its comprehending it. If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research? He's either a fscking genius and has invented algorithms 20 years ahead of their time or he's got some snake oil tucked away just out of camera shot.
Advanced technology is indistinguishable from a sufficiently rigged demo.
"great, I can make a robot! ... now what can I do with it?"
Well...
I for one welcome our new robot dominatricies...
You do know that the Sun has other sections more appropriate for nerds http://www.page3.com/
Building, programming, and maintaining a fully functional female robot is easier and cheaper than understanding the real thing.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Years ago I would havve mocked this. But the older I get I realize there are many people out there that just don't find someone. There are people that are "hopeless"
They end up crazy cat or dog people but I now can see that a robot wouldn't be any different then a cat or dog that a person bonds with.
I doubt many people would be lining up for the sex upgrade. I've meet some very lonely people (hospic for instance) and it's just the idea that there is someone there, be it a dog, or cat, or I suppose a robot. There are people that truely love their pets and bond with them. From cats, dogs, rats, bats, snakes, horses, goats, ferrits, birds of all sorts, and even fish. I suppose a robot would be no different really.
There are some people that aren't going to find companionship in life. I see quite a few mentally handicapped people in thier 70 and 80 (those that survive some rather barbaric eugenics movements) who never have been on a date. If a robot could have provided them some companionship, so be it.
Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age... but I just can seem to find the energy to mock this stuff anymore. I've seen too many lonley people suffering quietly who could use someone that fits some of the holes in their hearts. And sometimes you just need to hear someone speak to you. Some gaps, no pet can fill.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
I know the guy, he posts on societyofrobots, a robotics forum I used to frequent. Unfortunately, I have to call rubbish on this one. I don't think he knows much about AI. He claims all sorts of incredible things that his robot supposedly does that are all far beyond what anyone has done in robotics, vision or AI as a whole, but never elaborates on how he did it, and discusses design issues that should, in practice, be non-issues.
Link to his thread on that forum: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.0
A quote of interest, from the robot's creator:
"I am what you called a mad scientist. I don:t believe any documentation, No blue print, No paperwork, No Cad. I have build 12+ large robots (main robots) none of which has any documentation or blue print...
Even the software has NO documentation. The software is about 3Gig and I think I have about 15 lines of comments. The typical variable name I used are.... X, X1,X2, A1,A2,AA1,AA2,AAA1,AAA2 etc..."