Posted on 01/09/2017 9:14:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
With flowing black hair and dressed in a traditional Chinese dress, Jia Jia looks strikingly real. Yet her charm has its limits and simple questions frequently stump her.
Still, Chen said his team has made great progress over the past two years in developing her AI.
She was able accurately to answer a query about the day's weather, hold basic conversations and recognise the gender of her questioners.
"You are a handsome man," she complimented one, but when asked later if she has a boyfriend, replied, "I prefer to stay single."
Rapid advancements are being made in artificial intelligence and such products stole the limelight at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
A range of products were unveiled that can respond to voice commands to play music at home and follow other remote-control orders—or even think on their feet by accessing and "learning" from the Internet cloud.
One company, Hanson Robotics, unveiled its life-like "Professor Einstein," which has realistic facial expressions and can engage in informative conversations such as lessons in math and science.
Jia Jia is not quite there yet, but Chen sees a bright future for her kind in China.
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I want her!
I wonder just exactly what you mean by want? :-)
I’ll take one to go :)
She prefers to stay single?
Wait-—wut?
A battery operated girl that’s programmed to reject men?
Dang. That’s cold.
Speaking of cold, that's just a pile of cold latex rubber. Can't compare to a real woman with warmth. And has got to be real heavy with batteries. Dangerous to take a shower with that one.
“Come on. She love you good. Boom-Boom long time. Ten dolla”
Is there a robot that changes poopie diapers?
too much suds voids the warranty. See Cherry 2000 (1987)
We laugh, but our grand children will one day interact with artificially intelligent humanoids on a daily basis, and think nothing of it.
In fact, they’ll become so technologically perfect, that many people won’t even know they’re not human.
That’s not an Uncanny Valley.
That’s an Uncanny Grand Canyon.
Wouldn’t it be weird if the prophecy “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” was something like this?
Yes, I remember that movie. Poorly made, silly plot. The guy redeemed himself, giving up the robot for the real woman at the end. Sex with a robot is one thing, but it can't also be your friend as is a real woman. I'll take the real thing.
I've also thought for a long time that once these artificially intelligent humanoids reach a certain stage of perfection and sophistication, that they'll begin to exert a sort of autonomy or self-determinism that may well become a serious problem for future generations.
There's every chance that their intelligence capacity could exceed that of ordinary humans, at some point. Who knows if one or more of them will turn into a super HAL?
Scary thoughts.
“Scary thoughts.”
Frequent ones that I ponder, late at night, with insomnia as a not-so-boon companion.
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
"And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only"
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