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Post by Enchant on Sept 8, 2005 16:28:10 GMT -5
Robot in touch with it's emotions The ability to express feelings is difficult enough for humans, but now a humanoid robot named Kansei is able to frown or smile according to a flow of artificial consciousness. Kansei's ability to communicate feelings makes it one step closer to recognizing when humans are happy or sad, an important characteristic for machines expected to one day help care for the elderly, clean house, or greet people at a reception desk.Kansei, which means "sensibility" and "emotion" in Japanese, also contains speech recognition software, a speaker to vocalize, and motors that contort artificial skin on its face into expressions. The robot could even one day learn to distinguish and articulate whether foods taste good or bad. "If we establish the mechanism, the robot could find nice food in a market and even research new delicious foods for humankind," said the Kansei project leader Junichi Takeno, a professor at the Robot and Science Institute of Meiji University in Japan.To give Kansei an artificial consciousness, Takeno and his team built a software program that extracts word associations from a database of 430,000 words. The word database was built from sentences gleaned from the Internet, a type of large-scale, convenient and constantly updated database in itself Source:Discovery ChannelAlthough this is very cool and a step towards the future and definately has that oh futuristic and scifi feel, what would robots need emotions for? Don't get me wrong I think its fantastic...but what would be the use for it?
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Post by Aaron on Sept 9, 2005 19:26:11 GMT -5
hmmm evolution? I don't know maybe man playing "god". Think for alot they may get it and they actually have it as there companion a person that understands there personality like a friend. Except never shun, never look down. can see something like that.
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Post by Enchant on Sept 16, 2005 23:58:44 GMT -5
All I can think about is movies..like I-Robot or Terminator...it would be cool to have AI like that of Data on Star Trek, but the way we as a species."play god" we would get his brother....
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Post by Aaron on Sept 17, 2005 6:34:00 GMT -5
Well dont know if it's something should be scared about. I mean look at movies like ID-4 and War of the Worlds. Aliens coming to kill us. Which if you sit down and think about it..wouldn't make sense. If they wanted to kill us they wouldn't have survived they would have probably killed themselves and any other alien race off the planet. But, it's still cool to tack on a human emotion, and fear into something un-known.
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