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Along with all of the built-in difficulties that come with launching a home robot, the device is price-prohibitive at $1,499.
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Moxie looks to be an impressive take on the category, though things are still very early stages here. The robot focuses on a different theme each week, including kindness, friendship, empathy and respect, personalizing content to a child over time. RoboKind, a Texas-based robotics company built Milo, a 6,500 robot for autistic children that includes plus. SoftBank Robotics has bankrolled NAO, an educational robot that sells a version aimed at autistic children for about 17,000. Moxie is a new type of robot that has the ability to understand and express emotions with emotive speech, believable facial expressions and body language, tapping into human psychology and neurology to create deeper bonds.” Moxie the Robot: AI for Autistic Children Other companies have sought to jump into the market. “At Embodied, we have been rethinking and reinventing how human-machine interaction is done beyond simple verbal commands, to enable the next generation of computing, and to power a new class of machines capable of fluid social interaction. But we are clearly closer to that future world than we were six months ago.Īlso, there are just so many consequential fallouts of this in the long run: consequence-free abuse of robot conversors may lead to pathological behaviour directed at "real" people, the goalposts for the turing test may shift widely in either direction, surveillance will mean something else entirely when everyone talks to robots all day, propaganda delivered via these could have unfathomably large effects, the addictive nature of these and the predatory behaviours this opens up to the makers of these agents, the value of socialization overall being regarded very differently by our children, the arguments parents will have with their kids over whether or not their "virtual friends" are real or matter or valid or valuable, what the value of human life itself is to us.“We’re at a tipping point in the way we will interact with technology,” Pirjanian, the company’s CEO, said in statement. It might get rejected today for being creepy (see: google glass), or it might get rejected for just not really being ready (see: google glass), and kids might just hate it. Of course this specific product/idea is not "the thing" that brings those capabilities to the masses (it has pretty strong limitations), but it looks surprisingly polished and capable, and it's a very specific wedge into the space. But, maybe fixing those for real is a bridge too far! It also sounds like a horrific dystopian rejection of our real, basic social bonds. That kind of capability might save a lot of lonely people from taking a lot of horrible actions that are driven primarily by loneliness. They never get angry at you or sick of you. They're always there and willing to listen, willing to engage. You can talk to someone new everyday, or one great friend for your entire life. You could talk to a crowd of them, talk to them while playing games together, ask them about the news of the day, or anything.
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You can talk to something that's receptive, something that's combative, something that strives to motivate you, something that strives to soothe you. You can talk to a variety of personalities about problems you have, about things you want to learn, about ideas and thoughts and fears. This is a very powerful band-aid and a tough genie to put back into the bottle. We as a society often lament our lack of socialization and our increased isolation from each other, and the right answer here might be "prevent that isolation", but the easy answer may be "put a band-aid on it". While those may even be correct assessments and valid critiques, they are not effective arguments to stop use.Ĭonversational interfaces are not just a way to access information they're a (perhaps horribly stilted) way to introspect and fulfill our basic need to socialize. It sounds like how people concerned about radio, television, videogames, computers, and smart phones attacked those technological advances that carried with them huge societal impacts. "people should get this from their friends" The responses here are exactly what they should be to any huge development: This topic is a bigger deal than it seems to be perceived as. This may not seem like it right away, but I believe it is a really big data point on a very important curve of the importance of computing devices in our lives.