Barbie Gets a Brain

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 20, 2015 @03:35AM from the ken-his-usual-lunkish-self dept.

minstrelmike writes: Mattel is coming out with a Talking Barbie designed by a huge team and pre-scripted with thousands of responses controlled by an AI, with designs to be your best friend. The design team remembers the "Math is hard" debacle of the 1990s and if a girl asks if she's pretty, Barbie will respond, "Yes. And you're smart, too." If she asks if Barbie believes in God, she says a person's beliefs are personal. And suggests talking to grownups about some problems. The linked New York Times' article ("Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child") even discusses trying to avoid edited vids on YouTube by scripting out words such as "cockroach."

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"Yes. And you're smart, too." by Nutria · 2015-09-20 03:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

What if the girl is actually stupid? (Not that the concept that most girls are average or below average is even thinkable is 2015...)

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So Barbie is the woman of the new millennium by Opportunist · 2015-09-20 04:50 · Score: 1, Interesting

From a blond bimbo to a PC thug bitch.

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