"Coffee, Tea or Me" was an amusing novel about life for airline stewardesses in the sixties and Nadine is the one making the offer now.
Nadine has a somewhat different twist ... because she's a robot ... with social skills. (ABC: Human-Like Robot 'Nadine' Who Has a 'Personality, Mood and Emotions' Unveiled in Singapore)
Nadine remembers you and things you have said previously and her makes facial gestures appropriate to the conversation. She's a bit creepy because she was made in the likeness of one of the scientists who built her but she's also the most genial robot ever.
Nadine has a partner, EDGAR, with similar skills and both of them are straight out of the movie, "Ex Machina," and its portrayal of intelligent, highly-personal robots.
We don't know what kind of framework Nadine has under her shirt but her arms work and she presumably pivots to some extent at her waist. That kind of human mobility is probably limited but it will come in time along with the flexible human-like skin. The most interesting aspect is her manner and this one is really extraordinary.
Nadine, I feel like shit
She: would you like me to update your social networks for you?
Nah, they will answer with a bunch of pictures of cats.
She: ha ha, that was funny.
Funny? Tell me about funny, Nadine.
"Ex Machina" was portrayed as somewhat distant in the future but Nadine is right now and she's not far short of going up for the Turing Test to discover if you can differentiate her from a robot.
Nadine probably uses some facial recognition software to determine who you are so she's not really 'seeing' you but rather looking you up in a table. How much she distinguishes other than faces isn't clear but that will come as well since the most important design goal for the researchers was a successful social interrelationship with humans.
Erica is another Japanese robot and she's quite a looker with social skills to match. It seems Japanese scientists are pursuing most aggressively building androids with decidedly human characteristics. (The Guardian: Erica, the 'most beautiful and intelligent' android, leads Japan's robot revolution)
Evolution of artificial intelligence seems to be quickening and IBM's Watson is another in this class, albeit without the human-like attributes of appearance.
We still have not observed anything to indicate scientists are programming Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
Nadine has a somewhat different twist ... because she's a robot ... with social skills. (ABC: Human-Like Robot 'Nadine' Who Has a 'Personality, Mood and Emotions' Unveiled in Singapore)
Nadine remembers you and things you have said previously and her makes facial gestures appropriate to the conversation. She's a bit creepy because she was made in the likeness of one of the scientists who built her but she's also the most genial robot ever.
Nadine has a partner, EDGAR, with similar skills and both of them are straight out of the movie, "Ex Machina," and its portrayal of intelligent, highly-personal robots.
We don't know what kind of framework Nadine has under her shirt but her arms work and she presumably pivots to some extent at her waist. That kind of human mobility is probably limited but it will come in time along with the flexible human-like skin. The most interesting aspect is her manner and this one is really extraordinary.
Nadine, I feel like shit
She: would you like me to update your social networks for you?
Nah, they will answer with a bunch of pictures of cats.
She: ha ha, that was funny.
Funny? Tell me about funny, Nadine.
"Ex Machina" was portrayed as somewhat distant in the future but Nadine is right now and she's not far short of going up for the Turing Test to discover if you can differentiate her from a robot.
Nadine probably uses some facial recognition software to determine who you are so she's not really 'seeing' you but rather looking you up in a table. How much she distinguishes other than faces isn't clear but that will come as well since the most important design goal for the researchers was a successful social interrelationship with humans.
Erica is another Japanese robot and she's quite a looker with social skills to match. It seems Japanese scientists are pursuing most aggressively building androids with decidedly human characteristics. (The Guardian: Erica, the 'most beautiful and intelligent' android, leads Japan's robot revolution)
Evolution of artificial intelligence seems to be quickening and IBM's Watson is another in this class, albeit without the human-like attributes of appearance.
We still have not observed anything to indicate scientists are programming Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
We strongly believe such programming needs to be buried so solidly in any type of robot software as to make it impossible to remove either by nefarious humans or by robots doing it themselves.
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