[ExI] mean old human

Colin Hales col.hales at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 07:51:30 UTC 2016


Hi,
I have been inspired to call Boston Dynamics' (Google's) new beasty as:

"The Lidar-faced driverless pedestrian".

I think the two things should meet at the nearest available traffic
intersection as a matter of some priority!

:-)
cheers

Colin


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:24 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Most of us have seen and marveled over what Boston Dymanics has done with
> its biped bot:
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> http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/2/24/11104892/mean-human-bullies-good-robot-atlas-kind-benevolent-robots-all-hail-robots
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> I must say I am surprised at how it is being written up.  Our human
> instinct is to feel sympathy for the robot being hassled.  I didn’t think
> of that when I first saw the video.  Being a controls guy I thought of it
> as putting in an external random stimulus.  I talked to my mother today who
> saw the video and was angered by the guy hazing the robot.  She thought the
> robot eventually gave up on putting the box on the shelf and had walked out
> the door in discouragement.  I explained that the last scene was an
> engineer’s sight gag, and yet another impressive display of what Boston
> Dynamics has achieved.
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> It occurred to me that we could take one of these Boston Dynamics bipeds,
> adapt it to the excellent Japanese emote-bots with the facial expressions,
> the local companies working on hands, Asimo’s expressive arm motions, and
> have a device that plenty of people would relate to.
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> As robots become more human-like, perhaps our emotional instincts will be
> to protect them when some yahoo is giving them an external random stimulus
> with a hockey stick.
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> spike
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