{"id":30692,"date":"2022-05-12T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/trying-to-create-androids-with-a-human-bodys-dexterity#id31810"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:06:00","slug":"some-of-the-dangers-of-creating-realistic-looking-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/some-of-the-dangers-of-creating-realistic-looking-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the dangers of creating realistic looking robots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiTfe-ckD_g?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An interesting article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23054881\/engineered-arts-robotic-humanoid-ai-ameca-artificial-intelligence\">at The Verge<\/a> about a visit to robotics company Engineered Arts, where they&#39;re trying to create androids with a human body&#39;s dexterity.<\/p>\n<p>(The video shows one of their most advanced machines responding when someone tries to touch its nose.)<\/p>\n<p><em>As you get used to treating human-like automata as automata, you may slowly find yourself treating humans the same. It&rsquo;s similar to the dilemma parents have with young children and Alexa. Should they be polite to the AI assistant because it encourages them to be polite to humans? Or is that the wrong way to treat a piece of software coded and controlled by a huge multinational corporation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As I ponder this, Jackson and I walk past a desk laden with mechanical widgets undergoing stress tests. Pistons have been nailed to a wooden plank while, on a stand, tiny pulleys lift and lower a cup full of screws. And, true to Singler&rsquo;s suggestion that humans will ascribe a bit of soul to just about anything that moves, I feel passing sympathy even for these tortured components.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrowser.com\/\">The Browser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/trying-to-create-androids-with-a-human-bodys-dexterity\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23054881\/engineered-arts-robotic-humanoid-ai-ameca-artificial-intelligence\">at The Verge<\/a> about a visit to robotics company Engineered Arts, where they&#8217;re trying to create androids with a human body&#8217;s dexterity.<\/p>\n<p>(The video shows one of their most advanced machines responding when someone tries to touch its nose.)<\/p>\n<p><em>As you get used to treating human-like automata as automata, you may slowly find yourself treating humans the same. It\u2019s similar to the dilemma parents have with young children and Alexa. Should they be polite to the AI assistant because it encourages them to be polite to humans? Or is that the wrong way to treat a piece of software coded and controlled by a huge multinational corporation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As I ponder this, Jackson and I walk past a desk laden with mechanical widgets undergoing stress tests. Pistons have been nailed to a wooden plank while, on a stand, tiny pulleys lift and lower a cup full of screws. And, true to Singler\u2019s suggestion that humans will ascribe a bit of soul to just about anything that moves, I feel passing sympathy even for these tortured components.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thebrowser.com\/\">The Browser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/trying-to-create-androids-with-a-human-bodys-dexterity\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}