Thursday, June 18, 2009

EMOtional Robots



In the movie "AI", the roboticists try to make robots that think and feel like humans. I think that they should avoid this because robots will never really have a heart and they can never truely feel happy. They may show their expressions on their faces but they don't really feel it. I think if scientists actually try to make a robot that really does feel and look like humans, it will end up disastious. Mainly because of all the robot movies that I have seen where the robots malfunction and then they take over the world for a while. Well... it could really happen, you never know... lolss. I don't think that robots should have human rights like getting married because we are trying to make robots seem human which they are not! It's all fake and mechanical. They don't and can't love or have any feelings.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Turing Test ;D



Well before i was talking to two different robots. One was named Suzette and the other was named Splotchy. Neither of the robots seemed human at all. They would say things that didn't relate to what we were talking about out of no where. One minute we would be talking about health then the next about pets. It just wasnt anything like talking to a real person. Another thing is that they responded too quickly. It seemed like they had an answer already planned out for you... which they did. I asked them a bunch of questions like where do you live and are you a robot? I asked them these questions to see if their answers would seem like they were actually people. They denied that they were robots of course and even added a few lines saying that robots suck and everything. It was still really obvious that they weren't human though because whenever someone says shutup to it, it would say the same thing everytime. "Have fun talking to yourself for a minute or two." Like really who says that? Not anyone human that i know of. Also they would use big words and talk all scientifically. It was too robotic and they didnt even understand aim talk. If you mispelled a word or shortened it they wouldn't understand you. I understand that it isn't easy to make a robot that could actually seem human and pass the turing test. It is hard to come up with an answer that would stay on topic for all of the different things that people say since you can't come up with an answer to every single question out there. So they have to think of things to say that can answer a lot of different stuff. It's all really complicated and I don't think I would ever want to try to make one of those chat bots.

R0botz



I just finished watching a video about different types of robots. Some of the different kind of robots are humanoids and androids. Humanoids are robots that have any human like form such as legs and arms. Androids on the other hand are robots that look and act exactly like humans. The more robots look like humans, the more people like them but to a certain extent. A japanese robotist named Masahiro Mori came up with a scientific explaination for this. He called it the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when it looks too much like a human and people get repulsed by it. Over the years robots have changed and grown alot. I feel like one thing that they will never poses is true feelings. They might have the ability to create facial expressions but inside they don't have a heart. I don't think that they could ever love or have real feelings. They calculate everything and don't do what their hearts say because it's all what the logical choice is to them. I think that this is something that humans will always have that robots can't copy

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sneakers part 5








Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sneakers part 3 & 4