How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype?

moon_unit2 writes: You may have heard of "personal robots" such as Jibo, Buddy, and Pepper. One journalist recently met one of these home bots and found the reality less dazzling than the promotional videos. Whereas the Indiegogo clips of Buddy show the robot waking people up and helping with cooking, the current prototype can only perform a few canned tasks, and it struggles with natural language processing and vision. As the writer notes, the final version may be a lot more sophisticated, but it's hard to believe that real home helpers are just around the corner.

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Re:Give it time

[MrL0G1C]

As any AI researcher will tell you, we know how the brain works

An exaggeration, we know bits about how the brain works.

and will lead to us having strong AI programs real soon.

Lol, really, tech world have been saying this for decades.

We have IBM's Watson, a program that actually understands the information it's processing

No, it does not understand the information it's processing, stop making stuff up.

IBM is already making neural network chips that implement the way the brain really works

Again, these chips have been around for decades, nothing new.