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People Love Robots
Alice:
It seems that robots are capable of initiating the same responses in terms of making us care about them these days as other humans do, at least according to this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423091111.htm
I blame making so many of them so cute. :3
Cherry Lover:
--- Quote from: Alice on April 25, 2013, 08:20:51 AM ---It seems that robots are capable of initiating the same responses in terms of making us care about them these days as other humans do, at least according to this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423091111.htm
I blame making so many of them so cute. :3
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I don't think that's really that shocking. We're pretty good at humanising non-human things (you only have to look at how we talk to and treat pets, or even possessions like a car or computer). Plus, if I can form an emotional attachment to a fictional character sufficient to make me waste hours of my life defending her, I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to a robot....
The human mind isn't designed to handle objects which are deliberately human-like but not truly human. We didn't evolve in a world with films, TV shows, books and robots, after all. So, we tend to attach human-level emotions to them, at least subconsciously.
ZidanReign:
sexbots
Kat:
inb4 Robot Sakura.
lantzblades:
After watching Chobits I can't get behind the idea of robots not having emotions, at least once sufficiently intelligent
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