The key point in TFA is that the patients projected intent onto the robot. They projected intent onto the robots just as they projected intent onto the nurses, and reacted in the same way regardless of whether it was robot or nurse.
The lesson seems to be that you should spend less time programing empathy into a robot, and more time into placing the robot in a context in which intent is implied. By doing so you can trick people into reacting with a robot in a more human way than they might expect.
I'm surprised by the amount of discussion over the nature of the American government (I'm Canadian), and the lack of discussion over who should be setting curricula. Is it the place of the government to set curricula centrally or should teachers and parents have more local control?
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The key point in TFA is that the patients projected intent onto the robot. They projected intent onto the robots just as they projected intent onto the nurses, and reacted in the same way regardless of whether it was robot or nurse. The lesson seems to be that you should spend less time programing empathy into a robot, and more time into placing the robot in a context in which intent is implied. By doing so you can trick people into reacting with a robot in a more human way than they might expect.
I'm surprised by the amount of discussion over the nature of the American government (I'm Canadian), and the lack of discussion over who should be setting curricula. Is it the place of the government to set curricula centrally or should teachers and parents have more local control?