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"Face like a horse, I wish he had a foot and that's a powerful smell". That type of thing?
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"Face like a horse, I wish he had a foot and that's a powerful smell". That type of thing?
FULL STORY: https://www.apnews.com/006bcf696caa415cac06607556b5753dDreams Of Ubiquitous Social Robots Still Aren’t Coming True
Hopes that the tech industry was on the cusp of rolling personal robots into homes are dimming now that several once-promising consumer robotics companies have shut down.
The latest casualty was San Francisco startup Anki, maker of the playful toy robot Cozmo, which upon its release in 2016 seemed like the start of a new wave of sociable machines.
That dream ended this week when Anki CEO and co-founder Boris Sofman gathered many of the company’s nearly 200 employees to deliver the news that all of them would be laid off Wednesday. The bad news soon spread to fans and owners of Cozmo, introduced in 2016, and its cousin Vector, unveiled last year in an effort to appeal to grown-ups. ...
Anki’s demise was the latest in a string of failed efforts to launch life-like robots into the market. Boston-based Jibo, founded by one of the pioneers of social robotics, went out of business less than a year after its curvy talking speaker made the cover of Time Magazine’s “best inventions” edition. Another startup, California-based Mayfield Robotics, last year stopped manufacturing Kuri, a camera-equipped machine marketed as a watchful roving nanny.
None of them have been able to compete with immobile smart speakers made by Amazon, Apple and Google, which cost less than their more physically complex robotic counterparts but are powered by ever-improving artificial-intelligence systems that serve most users’ needs.
“AI without a body has caught on really well,” said Yan Fossat, head of the research lab at Toronto-based Klick Health, which is exploring social robotics in the medical field. “Physical robots, with a body to do something, are not really catching up.” They cost too much for the marginal service they offer, he said. ...
To say that state of the art robots of today are not doing well might be like saying early gasoline engines {early 1900s] are not selling that well and we should stick to the old reliable horse and buggy.
The state of the (technical) art is not at issue. It's the state of the marketplace and consumer demand that's at issue......
That may be the case today - But I'm a futurist who likes to look at tomorrow.
One reason I showed the sci-fi Data from Star Trek - How many years before a machine that
Humanlike can be created?
But even now we can see it is possible.
Now let's say down the road a bit an android that Humnalike is created
- Can you see a market for it? - It will be very expensive.
But in the same way some rich people are making reservations for trips into space
{space tourism} - I would bet you some wealthy people will want to have their own
'Data' android - The market is there - Develop a fully functional Android and name
your price - It will sell.
It will happen before most expect it, but judging by the precdents it will be a combat model, and a few years later there will be a toned-down pleasure model.
'Roy' and 'Pris'?It will happen before most expect it, but judging by the precdents it will be a military combat model, and a few years later there will be a toned-down pleasure model.
'Roy' and 'Pris'?
I'm all for making friends with A.I. like human friends if that happens in the future .. I hope they'll be all offended if you try to tell them they're humanlike.IMPORTANT - You have all probably seen Sophia, the robot granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia.
Now watch this YouTube video and tell me whether you believe it is authentic
- Another words is this the AI entity Sophia actually giving the answers
or is it faked with a Human just talking through Sophia ????
If this is a genuine AI being talking then conscious AI and the age of the 'Data' android from
Star Trek is near.
My Greatest Weakness is Curiosity | Sophia the Robot at Brain Bar
They'd have no credibility today.This story about Westinghouses' Telelux and frankly racist Rastus robots is quite interesting:
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/05/22/telelux-and-rastus-westinghouses-forgotten-robots/
LOL .. good fakeWhen the robot overlords rise up, they will remember this:
It is very convincing, yes.LOL .. good fake
At first watch, agreed.It isveryconvincing,yes.
It's a good point, but Google sold Boston Dynamics to Softbank in 2017. They must have had actual demonstrations and due diligence to do that deal.At first watch, agreed.
But it's a lot-more convincing when watched at lesser screen resolutions...
And then when you watch it again, after having seen this:
Which then makes me ask. Inevitably....
Please tell me who has actually witnessed, personally, any real-world demonstration of a Boston Dynamics (or comparably-capable) robot. Not a video. Actually seen one, as a full technical presentation, doing in the metal everything, and more, than we see in the videos.
Just humour me. But do, please, honestly respond.
(ps maybe I'm calling this 'Google Glass Syndrome'....and so-called "Deep Fake" capability has existed for much longer than many want to believe)
There will be a number of unreliable psychological and perceptual factors affecting my own opinion, here, but....try watching these short clips below, again.They must have had actual demonstrations
It is now. It wasn't then."THE FUTURE IS NOW !!!"
No it isn't.