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Info: us.aibo.com  Sony Aibo es una mascota robótica avanzada diseñada para ofrecer una experiencia interactiva y emocional similar a la de un perro real. Equipado con inteligencia artificial y múltiples sensores, Aibo puede reconocer rostros, voces y responder al tacto, desarrollando una personalidad única basada en la interacción con su dueño. Su estructura cuenta con 22 ejes de movimiento, lo que le permite desplazarse de manera fluida y natural. Además, Aibo utiliza servicios en la nube para almacenar recuerdos y mejorar su comportamiento con el tiempo, brindando una experiencia cada vez más personalizada

====================================================SUSCRIBETEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpffyr-7_zP1x1lS89ByaQ?sub_confirmation=1==================================================== LECCIÓN DE ESCUELA SABÁTICA         I TRIMESTRE DEL 2025Narrado por: Miguel PáezDesde: Bogotá, ColombiaUna cortesía de DR'Ministries y Canaan Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchMIÉRCOLES 12 DE FEBREROLA DEFENSA DEL LIBRE ALBEDRÍO Por mucho que no comprendamos acerca de los caminos y los pensamientos de Dios, las Escrituras revelan algunas cosas que ayudan a abordar el problema del mal. Una vía para ello se conoce como la defensa del libre albedrío. De acuerdo con esa perspectiva, el mal es el resultado del uso equivocado del libre albedrío por parte de los seres humanos. Dios, por lo tanto, no es responsable del mal, pues este es el resultado del mal uso que las criaturas hacen de la libertad que Dios les ha concedido. ¿Por qué, sin embargo, otorgaría Dios libre albedrío si esto llevaría al mal? Respondiendo a esta pregunta, C. S. Lewis escribió que “el libre albedrío, aunque hace que el mal sea posible, es también lo único que hace posible que el amor o la bondad o el gozo valgan la pena. Un mundo de autómatas, de criaturas que operen como máquinas, apenas si valdría la pena ser creado. La felicidad que Dios determina para sus criaturas más elevadas es la felicidad de estar libre y voluntariamente unidas con él y entre sí, […] y para eso tienen que ser libres” (Cristianismo y nada más [Caribe, 1977], p. 58). Lee Génesis 2:16 y 17. ¿Cómo muestran estos versículos la libertad moral concedida por Dios a Adán y a Eva? ¿Por qué pedirles que no hicieran algo si carecían de libre albedrío? Adán y Eva comieron el fruto prohibido, y desde entonces nuestro planeta se ha llenado de maldad. En Génesis 4, el capítulo siguiente a la narración de la Caída, se ven las terribles consecuencias del pecado en el asesinato de Abel a manos de su hermano. La narración de la Caída muestra cómo el Enemigo se valió del libre albedrío de Adán y Eva para introducir el pecado y el mal en la historia de nuestro planeta. La realidad del libre albedrío moral resulta evidente a lo largo la Escritura (ver Deut. 7:12, 13; Jos. 24:14, 15; Sal. 81:11-14; Isa. 66:4). Nosotros mismos ejercemos cada día y en un grado u otro el libre albedrío que nos ha concedido nuestro Creador. No seríamos humanos si no tuviéramos libre albedrío. Sin este, nos pareceríamos más a una máquina o a un robot. La compañía Sony ha creado un perro robot llamado Aibo. Se parece a un perro real, pero no se enferma, no tiene pulgas, no muerde, no necesita vacunas y no pierde pelo. ¿Cambiarías tu perro de carne y hueso por un Aibo? Si no es así, ¿cómo podría tu elección ayudarte a entender mejor por qué Dios nos creó como lo hizo, con libre albedrío, a pesar de los riesgos? 

Qophii kana gubbaatti, Jaal Dhugaasaan: - Jijjiirama bifa gara-garaa mootummaan DARGU gaggeessaa ture sun hagam qabsoo gaggeessaa turtan irratti dhiibbaa qabaata ture? - Lola humna warra AIBO wojjin godhamaa tureefii dhiibbaa inni fide - Mootummaa Cehumsaa keessaa erga ABOn baafame booda haala qabsoon hidhanno itti gaggeefamaa turefii seenaa heddu kabiroorratti yaadasaa nuunqooddata. Dhihaadhaa!

Kurfii kana gubbaatti Jaal Dhugoomsaan seenaa -Erga Jaarraafii Leencoon dirree dhiisanii deemanii booda jaallan hafan deebisani of ijaaruuf tattaaffii godhame Amna hoganoonni gama Somalee deemuuf godhaniifii wareegama kafalame Bobbaasaafii jaallan garii jidduu waldhagahuu dhabuu mul'late Lola "Lola Koree Jidduu" jadhamee waamamu Lola waraana AIBO wojjin gaggeeffame Seena dirree haga kufaatii DARGUU ballinaan nuun qooddata. Dhihaadhaa!!

「ソニー、aiboの2024年限定カラー「きなこエディション」。7/27開催のファンミーティングで初お披露目」　ソニーは、自律型エンタテインメントロボット “aibo” 「ERS-1000」の発売6周年を記念した2024年カラーモデル「aibo きなこ エディション」を、8月8日（木）より順次発売する。

In this episode of "A Beginner's Guide to AI," we explore the intriguing world of AI emotionality and consciousness through the lens of Marvin, the depressed robot from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Marvin's unique personality challenges our traditional views on AI, prompting deep discussions about the nature of emotions in machines, the ethical implications of creating sentient AI, and the complexities of AI consciousness. Join Professor GePhardT as we break down these concepts with a relatable cake analogy and delve into a real-world case study featuring Sony's AIBO robot dog. Discover how AI can simulate emotional responses and learn about the ethical considerations that come with it. This episode is packed with insights that will deepen your understanding of AI emotionality and the future of intelligent machines. Tune in to get my thoughts, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Want to get in contact? Write me an email: podcast@argo.berlin This podcast was generated with the help of ChatGPT and Mistral. We do fact check with human eyes, but there still might be hallucinations in the output. Music credit: "Modern Situations by Unicorn Heads"

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In this episode focusing on the best of YouTube from this week, the hosts, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, discuss a range of topics related to technology and accessibility. First up, Michael Babcock joins the guys to chat about his recent trip to CSUN, particularly focusing on Sony's efforts in making cameras more accessible for the blind and partially sighted community. Michael details the evolution of Sony's accessible camera features, from basic accessibility announcements to the inclusion of TalkBack for navigation and future plans for facial recognition in photo previews. The conversation shifts to the intriguing AIBO, Sony's robotic dog, which Babcock had the chance to interact with at CSUN. Despite its lack of fur, Aibo exhibits behaviours that mimic a real dog, including responding to touch and learning from interactions. The hosts debate the potential benefits and drawbacks of such AI companions, pondering whether they could serve as suitable substitutes for real pets for certain individuals. (Starts at 13 seconds) The next featured YouTube video also touches on other notable products and technologies featured at CSUN, like the all-terrain cane by Awarewolf, designed to support hikers who are partially sighted, and Case for Vision, a smartphone case that facilitates reading for users. The hosts reflect on the practicality of these innovations and the importance of focusing on simple, effective solutions alongside more high-tech offerings. (Starts at 19 minutes 12 seconds) In the third video, Michael returns to talk about the experience of visiting CSUN, how he travelled there and what navigating around with 3,500 other people in the same space was like. (Starts at 32 minutes 35 seconds) Jenine Stanley from Aira joins the conversation to discuss how Aira is making the upcoming solar eclipse accessible for visually impaired individuals through detailed audio descriptions. This initiative highlights the broader potential of technology to make various aspects of life more inclusive. (Starts at 42 minutes 50 seconds) Get ahead of the conversation and check out the Double Tap YouTube channel every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on the platform which you can find using this link: https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleTapVideo

In this lively episode of Double Tap, hosts Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, along with their special guest Michael Babcock, dive into a comprehensive review of this year's CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.Michael Babcock, a first-time attendee at CSUN, shares his experiences and insights from the event. He discusses various aspects of the conference, from the diversity of assistive technologies showcased, including those beyond blindness, to the significance of meeting people in person whom he's known online for years.Michael shares his thoughts on the new Orbit Q40 and Q20 Braille displays,  the ARX Vision headset, which promises to enhance navigation for visually impaired users through AI and a camera integrated into a bone conduction headset, and Sony's robotic dog, Aibo.Keep in touch by emailing us feedback@doubletaponair.com or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media.

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1. Postcards from some possible futures, sent to me by Elliot P. Montgomery 2. A Magazine from the Future in which autonomous vehicles are about as normal, ordinary, and everyday as television remote controls, wheels on luggage, and laptop sleeves. 3. Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, our pulp pop-psychology paperback from some future in which Sony's Aibo became as popular as the Sony Walkman and now, well — they're just here, and about as ferocious as a cuddly cute robot dog. https://magazinefromthefuture.comhttps://shop.nearfuturelaboratory.com... * Exploration of Possible Futures through Artifacts: The use of creative artifacts like postcards, magazines, and books to explore and represent possible futures. These artifacts are designed to augment traditional, analytical approaches to future studies with imagination and sensory experiences. * Design Fiction as a Tool: The value of design fiction is that it's a method that translates ideas and scenarios about the future into tangible, visual forms. You can think of Design Fiction's translation of research analysis into something engaging as an analog to the way a screenplay becomes an immersive, engaging visual story when it is made into a film. Design fiction serves to make future concepts more relatable and understandable. * Some Examples of Artifacts I've Created * Magazine from a Future with Autonomous Vehicles: Created for a client, this magazine represents a world where autonomous vehicles are commonplace. It was developed through workshops with various researchers and designers, capturing collective hopes, fears, and expectations. * Book from a Future with Ho-Hum Androids: Imagine a world where androids are as common and non-threatening as a Sony Walkman. I created a book from that world — a pop-psychology analysis of the Android psyche. * Imagination and Speculation: It's important to imagine and speculate about different futures, considering the wide-ranging implications of technological advancements. Design Fiction presents the useful challenge to think beyond the immediate and apparent effects of new technologies. * Cognitive and Sensory Engagement: Design Fiction is a way to create more immersive and sensory engagement with future scenarios, moving beyond traditional, data-driven methods. Design Fiction emphasizes the role of imagination and creativity - the making of artifacts from these futures — in making future studies more accessible and emotionally resonant.

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Megvan az iPhone 15 hivatalos magyar ára Igényesférfi.hu     2023-09-13 07:09:46     Infotech Generáció Apple Okostelefon iPhone Szeptember 12-én az Apple megtartotta szokásos őszi eseményét, amelyen várakozásoknak megfelelően az iPhone legújabb generációját is bemutatták. Földönkívüli múmiákat mutattak be a mexikói kongresszusban Rakéta     2023-09-13 13:35:01     Tudomány Mexikó DNS Állítólag a maradványok nem részei a földi evolúciónak, és a DNS-ük közel harmada ismeretlen a számunkra. A Galaxy S23 sorozat túlszárnyalja az S22-t, de az S24 még kelendőbb lehet Android Portál     2023-09-13 11:25:14     Mobiltech Telefon Okostelefon Samsung A Samsung nem túl gyakran hozza nyilvánosságra termékeinek értékesítési volumenét. Az elemző cégek azonban a szállítási számokból következtetni tudnak az értékesítési adatokra. Egy nemrégiben Koreából származó jelentés arra utal, hogyan teljesítenek a Samsung jelenlegi zászlóshajó okostelefonjai. A Counterpoint Research szerint úgy tűnik, hogy a Sa A legszebb fotó a napközelségébe száguldó üstökösről a tápiószentmártoni lápvidék mellől készült Player     2023-09-13 05:00:04     Tudomány Majzik Lionel pazar fotóját látnod kell a majdnem hiperbolikus sebességgel száguldó kométáról. Kiszámolták, hány ember élhetett eddig a Földön 24.hu     2023-09-13 05:10:02     Tudomány Van egy széles közben elterjedt feltételezés, miszerint ma többen élünk a Földön, mint amennyien valaha meghaltak. Már 2010 óta gengszterkedik a Google az amerikai igazságügy szerint Bitport     2023-09-13 07:52:00     Infotech USA Google A keresőóriás úgy látja, hogy nincs semmi különös a jó termékek folyamatos népszerűségében, a minisztérium viszont azt állítja, hogy a világon mindenkit lefizetnek a konkurencia víz alatt tartásáért. Új életet kapnak az öreg robotkutyák IT Business     2023-09-13 07:42:02     Mobiltech Robot Sony A Sony nem csupán új életet, de új célokat is ad az öregedő, ERS-1000 "Aibo" robotkutyáknak. Az egykor óriási feltűnést keltő, az emberi szemnek és léleknek kedves formájúra alkotott, négylábú gépkutyák egészségügyi és ápolási intézményekben nyújthatnak majd érzelmi támogatást és társaságot az ott lakóknak, lábadozóknak. A Sony fenntarthatósági pro Franciaország leállította az iPhone 12 értékesítését a magas sugárzási szint miatt 444.hu     2023-09-13 14:28:46     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Ha az Apple nem orvosolja a problémát, akkor készek visszahívni az összes eddig eladott Iphone 12-t. Vadiúj Coca-Cola kerül a boltokba First Class     2023-09-13 10:12:04     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Coca-Cola Közel ezer évet ugrott a jövőbe a Coca-Cola: az időutazáshoz segítségül hívták a mesterséges intelligenciát, melynek segítségével elkészítették a jövő kóláját. A rezsicsökkentés új módszere: a gyomlálás, mégpedig az adatok között hvg.hu     2023-09-13 06:03:00     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Rezsicsökkentés Kevés vezető van tisztában vele, mennyi elavult és felesleges adatot tárolnak a cégénél, és ezek hol találhatók a vállalat rendszereiben. Azt végképp nem tudják megbecsülni, mennyi tárhelyet és költséget emészt fel a fájlok őrizgetése. A Micro Focus információtechnológiai vállalat szakértői olyan fejlett, mesterséges intelligenciát is használó mego Rengeteg áramot fogyaszt a mesterséges intelligencia IT Business     2023-09-13 11:11:45     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia A mesterséges intelligencia használata pozitív és negatív hatással is van a használt IT-infrastruktúra CO2-kibocsátására és vízfelhasználására. Ahogy a mesterséges intelligencia egyre jobban integrálódik a társadalomba, kulcsfontosságú a semleges – ha nem is pozitív – nettó éghajlati hatás megtalálása. Az ICT számos becslés szerint már most is a gl Erősítés az automatizálás terén Gyártástrend     2023-09-13 10:41:47     Cégvilág Részvény Robot A Jungheinrich megvásárolja a Magazino robotikai vállalat valamennyi részvényét az alapítóktól és korábbi társtulajdonosoktól. Hatékonyságnövelés intralogisztikai megoldásokkal Gyártástrend     2023-09-13 09:18:09     Cégvilág Trend Robot Török Mátét, a Bosch Rexorth Kft. terméktámogatás csapatvezetőjét és robotikáért felelős terméktámogatóját kérdeztük az aktuális trendekről és megoldásokról az intralogisztika világából.

Megvan az iPhone 15 hivatalos magyar ára Igényesférfi.hu     2023-09-13 07:09:46     Infotech Generáció Apple Okostelefon iPhone Szeptember 12-én az Apple megtartotta szokásos őszi eseményét, amelyen várakozásoknak megfelelően az iPhone legújabb generációját is bemutatták. Földönkívüli múmiákat mutattak be a mexikói kongresszusban Rakéta     2023-09-13 13:35:01     Tudomány Mexikó DNS Állítólag a maradványok nem részei a földi evolúciónak, és a DNS-ük közel harmada ismeretlen a számunkra. A Galaxy S23 sorozat túlszárnyalja az S22-t, de az S24 még kelendőbb lehet Android Portál     2023-09-13 11:25:14     Mobiltech Telefon Okostelefon Samsung A Samsung nem túl gyakran hozza nyilvánosságra termékeinek értékesítési volumenét. Az elemző cégek azonban a szállítási számokból következtetni tudnak az értékesítési adatokra. Egy nemrégiben Koreából származó jelentés arra utal, hogyan teljesítenek a Samsung jelenlegi zászlóshajó okostelefonjai. A Counterpoint Research szerint úgy tűnik, hogy a Sa A legszebb fotó a napközelségébe száguldó üstökösről a tápiószentmártoni lápvidék mellől készült Player     2023-09-13 05:00:04     Tudomány Majzik Lionel pazar fotóját látnod kell a majdnem hiperbolikus sebességgel száguldó kométáról. Kiszámolták, hány ember élhetett eddig a Földön 24.hu     2023-09-13 05:10:02     Tudomány Van egy széles közben elterjedt feltételezés, miszerint ma többen élünk a Földön, mint amennyien valaha meghaltak. Már 2010 óta gengszterkedik a Google az amerikai igazságügy szerint Bitport     2023-09-13 07:52:00     Infotech USA Google A keresőóriás úgy látja, hogy nincs semmi különös a jó termékek folyamatos népszerűségében, a minisztérium viszont azt állítja, hogy a világon mindenkit lefizetnek a konkurencia víz alatt tartásáért. Új életet kapnak az öreg robotkutyák IT Business     2023-09-13 07:42:02     Mobiltech Robot Sony A Sony nem csupán új életet, de új célokat is ad az öregedő, ERS-1000 "Aibo" robotkutyáknak. Az egykor óriási feltűnést keltő, az emberi szemnek és léleknek kedves formájúra alkotott, négylábú gépkutyák egészségügyi és ápolási intézményekben nyújthatnak majd érzelmi támogatást és társaságot az ott lakóknak, lábadozóknak. A Sony fenntarthatósági pro Franciaország leállította az iPhone 12 értékesítését a magas sugárzási szint miatt 444.hu     2023-09-13 14:28:46     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Ha az Apple nem orvosolja a problémát, akkor készek visszahívni az összes eddig eladott Iphone 12-t. Vadiúj Coca-Cola kerül a boltokba First Class     2023-09-13 10:12:04     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Coca-Cola Közel ezer évet ugrott a jövőbe a Coca-Cola: az időutazáshoz segítségül hívták a mesterséges intelligenciát, melynek segítségével elkészítették a jövő kóláját. A rezsicsökkentés új módszere: a gyomlálás, mégpedig az adatok között hvg.hu     2023-09-13 06:03:00     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Rezsicsökkentés Kevés vezető van tisztában vele, mennyi elavult és felesleges adatot tárolnak a cégénél, és ezek hol találhatók a vállalat rendszereiben. Azt végképp nem tudják megbecsülni, mennyi tárhelyet és költséget emészt fel a fájlok őrizgetése. A Micro Focus információtechnológiai vállalat szakértői olyan fejlett, mesterséges intelligenciát is használó mego Rengeteg áramot fogyaszt a mesterséges intelligencia IT Business     2023-09-13 11:11:45     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia A mesterséges intelligencia használata pozitív és negatív hatással is van a használt IT-infrastruktúra CO2-kibocsátására és vízfelhasználására. Ahogy a mesterséges intelligencia egyre jobban integrálódik a társadalomba, kulcsfontosságú a semleges – ha nem is pozitív – nettó éghajlati hatás megtalálása. Az ICT számos becslés szerint már most is a gl Erősítés az automatizálás terén Gyártástrend     2023-09-13 10:41:47     Cégvilág Részvény Robot A Jungheinrich megvásárolja a Magazino robotikai vállalat valamennyi részvényét az alapítóktól és korábbi társtulajdonosoktól. Hatékonyságnövelés intralogisztikai megoldásokkal Gyártástrend     2023-09-13 09:18:09     Cégvilág Trend Robot Török Mátét, a Bosch Rexorth Kft. terméktámogatás csapatvezetőjét és robotikáért felelős terméktámogatóját kérdeztük az aktuális trendekről és megoldásokról az intralogisztika világából.

Max Pearson presents a selection of this week's Witness History stories. In 1999, Aibo: the world's first robot dog, hit the shops in Japan and sold out in just 20 minutes. We hear from Toshitada Doi who spent six years on the project when he worked at Sony. Plus we hear from Dr Ella Haig about the development of artificial intelligence. Japanese software developer Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999. Valerie Hunter Gordon, from England, invented disposable nappies in 1947 after the birth of her third child. We hear from Valerie's son, Nigel Hunter Gordon. Hungarian journalist László Bíró was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen and so he invented the ballpoint pen in 1938. Finally, a Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik invented what's known as the Rubik's Cube. Contributors: Toshitada Doi on developing Aibo: The world's first robot dog Dr Ella Haig, Reader in Artificial Intelligence, in the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth in the UK Japanese software developer Shigetaka Kurita, who created the first emoji Nigel Hunter Gordon, the son of Valerie Hunter Gordon, on disposable nappies Hungarian journalist László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube (Photo: The original Aibo. Credit: Jun Sato/WireImage via Getty Images)

Ruby Hornsby is a PhD student at the IDEA Centre. Her research is about 'artificial friends' - robots and their interactions with humans - and whether these interactions can be part of a good human life. What do we get out of friendship and how much of that is possible when the supposed friend we're talking about is not a person with an inner life of their own, but an artificial being that has been programmed to act in a friendly way towards us? And what if our interactions with robots are a bit like our interactions with fictional characters? Does this mean we can't have friendships with them, or is there some form of quasi-friendship that might still be possible, and might have something to offer us? And what about the ethics of these relationships? Do we leave ourselves open to exploitation or deception by entering into them?Some links:Ai-Da House of Lords (2022)Care homes and social robots (2020)Sex robots and companionship (2023) Sony's AIBO dog (2023)Research Ruby did alongside IDEA's Natasha McKeever on sex robots (2022) Ethics Untangled is produced by the IDEA Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.Twitter: @EthicsUntangledFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetlLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idea-ethics-centre/

Gadgets De Mascotas (#2-1) #2 Robot De Fitness Para Mascotas VARRAM El Cepillo De Dientes Mejor Del Mundo Petronics Mousr PetWALK Puerta Para Mascotas Collar y Sistema Para Mascotas Wagz Kit De Caja De Arena Modkat Recuperador De Bolas iFetch Cámara Inteligente Para Perros Furbo Collar LED Glowdoggie Lanzador De Pelotas De Tenis Para Perros Nerf Masajeador De Cara de Gato Disco Dog Silla Para Perro Con Megaesófago Frisbees Para Perros Que Parecen Pesas #1 Lavadora De Ladridos 360 Colector Manos Libres De Excremento De Perro Alimentador Para Mascotas Pato De Silicona Para Perros Pecera Portátil Para Pasear Peces Ponte En Sus Patas Balón Pebby Perro Robótico Aibo de Sony Aquapaw Herramienta De Baño Para Mascotas Comedero Automático Para Mascotas Wopet Juguete Láser Para Tu Gato Fuente Veken Para Mascotas Mordeduras De Cubo Para Mascotas Feb 12 - Pet Gadgets (1-2) = Gadgets de Mascotas (#2-1) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/universos-abiertos/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/universos-abiertos/support

Aibo the robot dog has sensors, cameras and AI. Can it compete with a live animal? DW pits him against a real dog. So who wins in the categories of cuddling, romping, cleanliness, character and cost?

In Roboterhund Aibo stecken Sensoren, Kameras und KI. Wie schlägt sich der gegen einen echten Hund? Wer gewinnt in den Kategorien Kuscheln, Toben, Sauberkeit, Charakter und Kosten?

This week's tech news: NASA Artemis 1 launch; Amazon's acquisitions, creepy?: Sony Aibo; Starlink, Tesla & T-Mobile; Moviepass returns;  Misdirected spam texts; Charging batteries; COVID test expiration; Recycle old TVs; Streaming

Dr. Brooks is an evolutionary biologist, the author of two books ("Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n' Roll" and "Artificial Intimacy"), and the founder of the Evolutionary Ecology of Sexual Reproduction Research Group at the UNSW, which group's research focuses on the big questions surrounding human sexuality. In this longer-than-usual conversation, KMO and Rob touch on a number of sensitive questions, such as: Is an excess male population a danger to society and its rulers? Was monogamy a stabilizing force allowing to channel free (and often destructive) male energy toward something positive? Are today's incels correct in pointing out the inherent inequity of the sexual market? Is income inequality one of the drivers of involuntary celibacy? If so, might we be better served by addressing the root cause or providing accessible, if only crudely imitative, substitutes… that might still be better than nothing? 03:35 – Incels and the supply and demand problem of the mating market 09:47 – Young males taking risks, for good or ill 13:15 – Evolutionary psychology and its fans and skeptics on both ends of the ideological spectrum 18:10 – Christopher Ryan's "Sex at Dawn" and the advent of monogamy 20:10 – "Chads," "betas," and the "Genghis Khans" 23:06 – Monogamy stabilizing society 27:45 – Incel language and the connection with economic inequality 30:20 – Aibo by SONY 32:10 – KMO reciting a scene from Steven Spielberg's “A.I.” 37:25 – Getting a family dog, and how dogs have changed humanity 40:00 – Whether machines can really do intimacy 41:40 – The symbiotic relationship between humans and dogs and the transactional properties of sex 45:30 – William S. Burroughs's “Words Of Advice For Young People” and a less-than-rosy view of the good old times 47:45 – How the world has changed since KMO's and Rob's teenage years 49:52 – Enter the algorithms: making dating apps addictive 58:35 – Sex robots and how they are no way close to human 1:04:15 – Virtual reality sex giving sexbots a run for their money 1:07:50 – “Futurama” character dating a robot and the attendant motivational traps 1:09:26 – Dismissive views of artificial substitutes for sex and intimacy and why they might still be better than nothing Links: Robert Brooks: www.robbrooks.net | @Brooks_Rob KMO: en.padverb.com/kmo | @Kayemmo The Padverb Telegram Channel: t.me/padverbpodcast

Pirmoji knyga apie Harį Poterį, Didžiojoje Britanijoje pasirodžiusi 1997-ųjų birželio pabaigoje, sukėlė sprogusios bombos įspūdį, o septynių romanų cikas (užbaigtas 2007-aisiais) prieš skaitytojų akis atvėrė ištisą pasaulį, kurį mielai tyrinėja ne tik vaikai bei paaugliai, bet ir suaugusieji.Kita vertus, Joanne K. Rowling rašydama savąsias knygas ėjo ganėtinai įprastu keliu: pagrindiniu pasakojimo herojumi yra paprastas, nelaimingas vaikas, vėliau paaiškėja jog jis turi ypatingų galių; pasakojimas kuriamas linijiniu principu; romane nuolat pabrėžiama gėrio ir blogio priešprieša; tekste yra aiški didaktinė potekstė. Tad kuo J. K. Rowling sužavėjo skaitytojus Didžiojoje Britanijoje?O kaip greitai pirmoji knyga apie Harį Poterį tapo populiari Lietuvoje, ją išvertus ir išleidus 2000-aisiais? Ar knygos perkamumą įtakojo dar po metų pasirodęs, pirmojo romano pagrindu sukurtas, filmas?Poteriadą yra išversta ne tik į 80 skirtingų pasaulio kalbų (įskaitant lotynų bei senąją graikų), bet ir... iš anglų į amerikiečių anglų kalbą. Ką, kiek ir kaip gali tekste keisti vertėjas, adaptuodamas pasakojimą konkrečios visuomenės poreikiams?J. K. Rowling, taip pat kaip kitiems dviems britų rašytojams Philip Pullman bei J. R. R. Tolkien, pavyko tai, kas kaip taisyklė didžiąjai daliai vaikų bei jaunimo rašytojų yra neįveikiama užduotis, o būtent – peržengti vaikų ir bendrosios literatūros ribą. Ko knygų serijoje apie Hario Poterio ir jo draugų nuotykius ieško suaugusieji?Kokie J. K. Rowling sprendimai verslo sferoje padėjo jai tapti milijardiere?Pokalbis „Alma littera“ įkūrėju Arvydu Andrijausku, vertėja Elžbieta Kmitaite ir vaikų literatūros kritike Egle Baliutavičiūte.Ved. Aurimas Švedas

This week Harry continues to explore advances in "digital therapeutics" in a conversation with Paolo Pirjanian, the founder and CEO of the robotics company Embodied. They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning. Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home, but it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids. The device hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids. But Moxie isn't inexpensive; it has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans. So it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them. Pirjanian discussed that with Harry, along with a bunch of other topics, from the product design choices that went into Moxie to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. 2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Just note that you'll have to go to the series page which shows all the episodes, not just the page for a single episode.3. Scroll down to find the subhead titled "Ratings & Reviews."4. Under one of the highlighted reviews, select "Write a Review."5. Next, select a star rating at the top — you have the option of choosing between one and five stars. 6. Using the text box at the top, write a title for your review. Then, in the lower text box, write your review. Your review can be up to 300 words long.7. Once you've finished, select "Send" or "Save" in the top-right corner. 8. If you've never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed next to any reviews you leave from here on out. 9. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible.That's it! Thanks so much.TranscriptHarry Glorikian: Hello. I'm Harry Glorikian, and this is The Harry Glorikian Show, where we explore how technology is changing everything we know about healthcare.Two weeks ago, in our previous episode, I talked with Eddie Martucci, the CEO of a company called Akili Interactive that's marketing the first FDA-approved prescription video game. It's called EndeavorRx, and it's designed to help kids with ADHD improve their attention skills.It's one of the first examples of what some people are calling “digital therapeutics.”And this week we continue on that topic—but with a conversation about robots rather than video games. My guest Paolo Pirjanian is the founder and CEO of Embodied.They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning.Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home. But it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids.Moxie Video Clip: Hi, I'm Moxie. I'm a robot from the GRL. That's the Global Robotics Laboratory. This is my first time in the human world. It's nice to be here. Oh, where is here, exactly? It's a pretty big world for a little robot.Harry Glorikian: Moxie hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids.But just like EndeavorRx, Moxie isn't inexpensive. The robot has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans.So, it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them.Paolo and I talked about that, as well as a bunch of other topics—from the product design choices that went into Moxie, to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.So here's my conversation with Paolo. Harry Glorikian: Paolo, welcome to the show.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. Hey, for having me on the show.Harry Glorikian: Paolo, you're the co-founder and CEO of a company called Embodied. And and you guys are in the field of, I'm going to call it educational robotics. But this is not your first robotics company, right? Can you can you start by filling in listeners about your history in the consumer robotics field?Paolo Pirjanian: Absolutely. Yeah. So I actually got my education in Denmark. I got a PhD in A.I. and robotics and then moved to the US actually to work at NASA's JPL. Which was a childhood dream job. Shortly thereafter, I got approached by Bill Gross of Idealab, who started one of the earliest incubators, who wanted to start a robotics company. So I joined that company as the CTO originally and then eventually became the CEO. We developed Visual Slam Technology, which is a vision based, camera based ability for a robot to build a map of the environment and know how to navigate it autonomously. That company in 2012 was acquired by iRobot. And we integrated that technology across Roomba and the other iRobot portfolio products to allow them to be aware of the environment and know how to navigate around the home, primarily for cleaning the floors. I was a CTO there for a couple of years and then decided to move on to do something that's been a childhood dream, to really create AI friends that can help us through difficult times in our lives.Harry Glorikian: But one of the projects you worked on, and correct me if I'm wrong, was the Sony's Aibo Robot Dog, right? It's not necessarily educational, but it was aimed at kids. So what sort of drew your focus on robotics for education and socialization, I want to say.Paolo Pirjanian: Yes, correct. Sony Aibo, the robotic dog, my previous company, we developed a computer vision technology for it that enabled the robot to be able to see things and interact with things in the environment. And it was an amazing product, actually, the Sony Aibo. And I've always actually had interest in let's call it mental health. And of course, my craft is AI and robotics. And so after my last company was acquired, I decided the timing is now to go pursue that childhood dream of creating robots that can actually help us with mental health. So we don't categorize ourselves as education in the strict sense because we do not really focus on STEM education. We focus on for children. The first product is for children. It's called Moxie, and it's helping them with social emotional skills, learning, which in layman's term you could describe as EQ, emotional intelligence skills versus IQ, which are more related to STEM type education.Harry Glorikian: Yeah. And it's it's supposed to complement traditional therapy if I was reading everything correctly.Paolo Pirjanian: Exactly. Exactly. We don't believe in replacing humans in the loop. We want people to be treated by humans. But given the shortage and cost of mental health services, there's always room for complementing that with AI and other technologies. And that's what we are doing.Harry Glorikian: So if I ask the question, is Moxie more like a toy that's supposed to be fun, or is it a tool that's supposed to be therapeutic or correct some help help a child that's using it or is it both?Paolo Pirjanian: It's primarily a tool to help children with social emotional learning, things that you would go to a therapist for. The analogy that I use that may be helpful here is really Moxie is a tool to deliver therapy to children. But we we have to make it fun enough for the child to want to take that pill. So in a way, if you use pharmaceuticals as an analogy, a pill usually for children is sugar coated because you want them to take the pill to deliver the medicine to them. So the same way here, Moxie has a lot of fun activities and interesting things that attract a child to want to interact with Moxie. And then during those interactions, Moxie will find the opportunity to deliver techniques and therapies, for instance, to teach the child about mindfulness, teach them about emotion regulation, teach them social skills, to teach them about empathy and kindness, talking about your feelings and so on.Harry Glorikian: I know many adults that may need Moxie for sure. With all those categories you mentioned. Right.Paolo Pirjanian: I agree.Harry Glorikian: But but let's talk about the range of challenges, problems or issues that you've designed Moxie to help with. So can it help with relatively mild issues like shyness, or is it designed to help kids with more severe issues like, Autism Spectrum Disorder or all of the above?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, no, it's first of all, you're talking about the audience that it's appropriate for. Obviously, children that have been diagnosed with any neurodevelopmental challenges such as autism need to be trained on social emotional skills. But neurotypical children also can benefit from it. Actually in our customer base, we see a roughly 50-50 split between children that have mental, behavioral developmental disorders. And in the 50% are children that you would call neurotypical. But yet we know even within neurotypical children, they have to deal with things such as stress, anxiety, sometimes even depression. Covid obviously did not help it. It exacerbated a lot of mental health issues for every child, including adults, by the way, as you pointed out. And these techniques and tools that you use from therapy are really the same independent of the diagnosis. Now, some children may need more help with social skills. Let's say if there is a child on the autism spectrum, they may not be very comfortable making eye contact, which is an important social skill to have. When you're interacting with someone, you want to look them in their eyes and Moxie will help them, for instance, with that. And that's maybe something that a neurotypical child doesn't need. So Moxie will focus more on helping them with things such as coping skills, with coping with stress, coping with anxiety or managing anxiety, or even social skills. Like you can talk to Moxie about bullying and it will allow you to talk about it and understand how to navigate that and teach you skills about how to protect your own personal space. A lot of these foundational skills are are the type of skills that social emotional learning includes.Harry Glorikian: So. Let's talk a little bit more about the actual product. And because this is a podcast, I'm sort of like need to talk through some of the features, right? Because they everybody can't see it. But so on the hardware side, you know, the arms, the waist, it bends, the rotating ears, the rotating base, the ears, the face, the speakers, the camera, you know, the program that animates the face and gives Moxie, a personality, the computer vision elements. Right. And then all the scripts of all the different interactions. Right, you know. Why was it important to give Moxie an LCD screen as a face rather than mechanical mouth or eyes.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. Let me start maybe take a couple of steps back for the audience, as you said there are no visuals here. Think of Moxie as a AI character brought to real life. Right. So think of it as a, sorry, as a cartoon character brought to real life. So think of a cartoon character that has physical embodiment and it can talk to you. It can smile back at you. We can interact with you with body language and emotions and so on. To your question as to why it required a LCD display. We could potentially consider creating a mechanical face that can have enough expressivity, but that can add a lot of costs on one hand. On the other hand, if not done well enough, it can become uncanny and creepy. So we decided that the LCD display that, by the way, is very is curved because we did not want it to look like a monitor stuck in the head. But it was integral to the design. So it's curved and looks like a face. And what you see on the face is an animated character, Moxie's character, which is integrated very well with a hardware industrial design. So you can provide much more freedom of expression from facial expressions. And especially for children, you want to have a robot that has the ability to show facial expressions. By the way, the intonation of the voice will change as well, based on the type of conversation and the emotion we are trying to capture in the conversation.Paolo Pirjanian: And then the other question, actually, a macro level question becomes embodiment, why did this need to be embodied? Why physical? Why not just a digital character on a screen? Well, so, evidence from neuroscience, from MRI, fMRI scans shows that when we interact with something that has physical embodiment and agency, it triggers our mirror neurons, our imitation neurons are triggered at a much higher level and much wider level than when you're interacting with something just on a screen. And the implication of that is that things you can learn through interaction with the embodied agency have a deeper impact in terms of retention of the information, something that we may be able to anecdotally relate to during COVID. All education went online and the post mortem on that was that te quality of education that was delivered online doesn't compare to what happens in the classrooms. And that's, again, the same thing when it's not embodied. You don't feel that emotional connection. You don't feel an obligation. Many children will just turn off the monitor and walk away, whereas with something that's physically embodied, you feel you can't do that. It has feelings, you feel it has a perspective. You can't just turn it off. By the way, on Moxie, if you look at it closely, there are no buttons on Moxie. There is no input device on moxie like a keyboard or a touch screen or anything else. The way you interact with moxie is the way we interact with each other, using conversation, body language, intonation of voice, emotion, facial expressions and so on. There is one switch actually on the bottom of the robot that you don't see. That's for emergency situations in case something goes wrong. For certification reasons, we have to put that physical switch to turn it off if something goes wrong.Harry Glorikian: So not having played with it does, and only watching the video online, Moxie's voice synthesized like Siri or is it prerecorded? Like, how does it sound?Harry Glorikian: It's synthetic. Yes. So, yeah. So we cast the character of Moxie, decided what this character stands for, what are its values, what is the background story? And then based on that, decided the voice of Moxie, what it should be. And then the way you develop the synthetic voices that you take in neural network and train it based on a lot of samples that we captured from a voice actress in a studio recording hundreds and hundreds of hours of speech from a script. So we have this script and we know how it sounds based on the character's voice recording, and that gets fed into a deep neural network that is trained over and over again until it models that voice. So that later I can just give a text and it will generate a synthetic voice that sounds exactly like that character.Harry Glorikian: And then Moxie seems to emit a lot of sound effects and music. Does that element enhance the product somehow?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So we can underline mood and so on with sound effects or background music. For instance, one of the activities Moxie will suggest if the child is talking about things that are have to do with stress and so on, is a mindfulness journey. Where it will ask you to close your eyes. Imagine you are in a forest or other places as well. There's a library of them. Let's say you're in a forest, listen to the wind and then it will start playing some sound effects in the background and calming music to get the child to imagine they're in that space. For some children that have high sensitivity disorders to certain stimuli like sound, the parents can actually, through a parent app, provide that information which will adjust the settings. In that case, Moxie will actually not use sound effects or any jarring effects that may disturb that child.Harry Glorikian: Interesting. So. Simple question, but is it battery operated? I mean, how long does it last on a single charge? Does it plug in?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, it's battery operated because the child usually likes to move it around. You carry the round almost like a baby on your arm. If you remember the days where we had young babies, it was literally ergonomically, it sits exactly right on your arm very nicely. And it has a battery that can run for hours of active usage. And then at night, usually like your cell phone, you plug it in any charges overnight.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, this begs the question of where did the idea of Moxie really come from? Because you don't decide on a whim to build a product this complex. You know, how did you persuade yourself and your investors that the technology is at a point where, you know, it could really make a difference with kids, you know, that have social emotional development issues?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. I mean, the idea was sparked probably early in my early childhood, I would say. So, very briefly at a very early age due to a war, my world was turned upside down. And unfortunately, I had to flee my my homeland and seek refuge in another country where I looked different, sounded different and was different. Right? And and unfortunately, as such, you do get rejected by the society. You have a harder time in school. You get exposed to racism and rejection and all these things. So. I remember during that time I saw the first animated short by Pixar. Which was Luxo Jr., the two lamps, mama lamp and baby lamp playing with a ball. Which blew me away that a computer can generate millions of pixels on the screen that are moving to create, to induce or elicit such emotion in the audience. So that inspired me to actually seek education in computer science and robotics and A.I. because before that, as many immigrants you were taught that you were going to be a doctor, so that that's.Harry Glorikian: Or a lawyer.Paolo Pirjanian: Lawyer comes second, but obviously doctor first. So so that inspired me actually to buy a computer and start coding by myself. And I started learning coding and then I decided I'm going to do well in high school so I can get into university and pursue my education. And I did. And to be honest with you, this has been something I've been wanting to do for since I can remember. My previous company, as I mentioned, Evolution Robotics, that was a Idealab company and I was the CTO then became the CEO. I wanted it to do it then, but that's almost a decade ago, or maybe slightly more than a decade ago. We even tried. It was not possible. Absolutely not possible. I remember back then. Just to use an example that I think most people can relate to, voice recognition for even a single command was hard. All of us have had in-car navigation systems with a voice assistant that you would press a button, hold it down and say navigation, and would pull up navigation and say, Enter your address. It will enter the address. And you would have, to by the time you were done, enter the address because it would constantly misunderstand you and then give you options. Did you say A, B or C and no, no, no. I didn't say that. By the time you were done entering the address, you were at the destination. So that was state of the art only a decade ago. Just for voice recognition. Same thing with computer vision.Paolo Pirjanian: My specialty actually was computer vision. Computer vision. Also, we couldn't recognize things very well. And the advancement that has happened in deep neural networks due to the increase in compute power, due to increase to labeled data sets that are available through many sources from YouTube and the Internet and so on. We have been able to solve age-old problems that for decades we were struggling with So it was not possible. The other piece that was probably not possible was that I was not ready as an entrepreneur probably to take on such a colossal challenge of building a product like this. So the stars aligned around 2015 when I decided to leave iRobot and said, You know what? The time is probably right now. And and fortunately, I was able to get some investors that believed in the vision of creating AI characters, AI friends that can help children with social emotional development. And obviously, this technology platform, we will in the future use it for also helping the elderly population with loneliness and Alzheimer's and dementia and so on. We have just scratched the surface with our first products, right? And there is a lot more work to do. But today it's possible. We have proven it. We have a product in the market. A five year old can will interact with it for months at a time without any human intervention. So yeah, so it was a series of events brewing over the last 30, 40 years for this to become possible today.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: Let's pause the conversation for a minute to talk about one small but important thing you can do, to help keep the podcast going. And that's leave a rating and a review for the show on Apple Podcasts.All you have to do is open the Apple Podcasts app on your smartphone, search for The Harry Glorikian Show, and scroll down to the Ratings & Reviews section. Tap the stars to rate the show, and then tap the link that says Write a Review to leave your comments. It'll only take a minute, but you'll be doing a lot to help other listeners discover the show.And one more thing. If you like the interviews we do here on the show I know you'll like my new book, The Future You: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Get Healthier, Stress Less, and Live Longer.It's a friendly and accessible tour of all the ways today's information technologies are helping us diagnose diseases faster, treat them more precisely, and create personalized diet and exercise programs to prevent them in the first place.The book is now available in print and ebook formats. Just go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and search for The Future You by Harry Glorikian.And now, back to the show.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: I mean, just looking at the system, there's probably a lot of innovations that were required to put Moxie together. And so. I don't know, maybe you can give us a few, you know, like "Oh, my God" moments that took place in this, right? I mean. I don't know if it's the physical movements. I don't know if it's the, you know, personality or the scripts. But, you know, give us the highlights of what you think was like the big breakthroughs that made this possible.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So there are many, many, many, many pieces of technology that we had to invent or partner for to make this happen. So   what I mentioned, deep neural networks, generally speaking, in the field of AI have advanced to the point where we can have very reliable speech recognition technology, for instance, right? Where you have an accent or not, you're speaking loud or soft and so on, you have background noise and so on, it will be able to transcribe what you're saying pretty accurately. There are still errors, but it's pretty accurate. It's accurate enough, let's put it that way. The next stage of the conversation pipeline is actually understanding. Now you have a transcript of what was said. Now I need to understand the semantics of what was meant, what was the intent behind this, this string of characters, and that's natural language understanding. In that area, Embodied has made huge advancements because we have to be able to understand what the child is saying. And the state of the art when we started is defined by Siri and Alexa and Google Home, where it's very command and response. "Alexa, play music for me. Alexa, how is the weather? Alexa, tell me a joke. Alexa, read a story or read the news for me." And so on. So short utterances and and direct mapping to a function that the device can do. Whereas in our case it's not about this transactional command and response, it's about relation and social interaction. So the child, Moxie will actually ask and encourage the child. It says, "So how was your day to day?" There is no way any human being can script all the possible answers that you could expect to hear because you could basically say anything possible to that question.Paolo Pirjanian: So we had to develop natural language understanding that can understand what was said no matter what was said, and provide a relevant response. Because if you don't, if the robot says something that's absolutely not related to what the child wanted to talk about, then children get disappointed. They say, well, this thing is a dumb robot. It doesn't doesn't understand me. And they will dismiss it, right? The illusion of intelligence breaks away very quickly as soon as you you misunderstand or say something off script, let's say. So we had to develop a combination of systems to be able to address that. Another major challenge, and this was actually much bigger than I thought, we spent a lot of time on this challenge to solve. Again, it has to do with interaction using Alexa as an example also, and Siri as well as Google. They all have this notion of a wake word, Hey, Google, hey Siri or Alexa. When you say this keyword known as a wake word, the device is actually at the, when it's on standby, it's putting all of its attention to look for that keyword before it does anything else. So as soon as you say it, a couple of things happen. It's almost like turning on a switch to say, I'm going to speak, right? So number one, you're telling it, I'm going to say something now. Number two, as soon as you have said that phrase, these things have multiple microphones on them. And the mic array allows you to be able to be informed and focus your attention on the location from which you heard this phrase. With doing that, you can also filter out anything that's in the background. So you focus the attention of the device on that location of the user that said Alexa. And then you say a phrase and then it processes and executes the action. In our case, in social interaction, it will not be appropriate if you had to say Moxie in every volley of the conversation. Every time you want to say a sentence to me, you would start by saying Paolo and I and I would look at you, and then you would say something, and then I would stop listening. And then you say, Paolo, for every sentence, right. That would that would be a very awkward social interaction. So we had to solve that problem. It's a tough problem to solve. And we use a combination of cameras to know where the child is, the voice, where it's coming from, and what was being said to focus the attention of Moxie on the person that's engaged with it so that Moxie doesn't respond to the TV or mom and dad maybe having a conversation on the phone over there and it filters all of that automatically, without the need for having a wake word phrase. And I can go down the list. There is many, many more. But this is just examples of the type of things we have to solve.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, I think some people might make the argument that kids should really be learning their social and emotional skills from other human beings. From a parent, from a teacher, from their peers, maybe their therapist if they have one. You know, how can a robot fit into that picture in a healthy, productive way? You know, how would you respond to the potential criticism, which I'm sure you've heard before. When a parent who buys Moxie for their kid, are they offloading their parental responsibilities?Paolo Pirjanian: That's an absolutely valid concern and a good question to ask. And obviously, even before inception of the company, I personally myself was thinking about this because there is a there's a contradiction in saying that a child that is not very good at social interaction, let's put them in front of a robot, they'll get better at it. There's a contradictory element to that potentially. Right. So let's put it this way. In the extreme case, what if the child does not have the ability to have interaction with their peers? Right. So they do not get the opportunity to interact with other peers from which they're actually learning to hone in their social skills. Well, that happened during the pandemic. There's a huge mental health crisis happening in the US now that will take years for us to to address. That was because children were locked in their home without the ability to socialize with other children because of worries about being getting COVID, right. So now pandemics are rare events that hopefully don't happen that often. But now let's put ourselves in the shoes of children that are, for various reasons, are not successful in providing social interactions. An extreme case is a child on the autism spectrum. That does not have the right skills to have social interactions nor interpret social cues in a conversation. Let's say if you're annoyed at someone on the spectrum, it's likely that they may not even understand that you're annoyed at them and they may keep saying the same thing or doing the same thing. That's going to make you more and more agitated or the other end of the spectrum, which is not as severe.Paolo Pirjanian: My example when I was a child. And I lived in a foreign country where I was different. I had an accent. I looked different. I came from a different cultural background and other kids didn't want to play with me. And there's everything in between. Right? So then. What do we do? Well, you can have therapies and that's what we do. There's a massive shortage of therapists. If you have a child, usually the way this works is that your school teacher will come and say, we think your your child may be on the spectrum or your child may have ADHD or your child have some other neurodevelopmental challenge. You should get your child diagnosed. Okay. Hopefully no one has to try this. The waiting list for getting diagnosed is minimum six months, minimum six months. And that's if you have connections and good providers and all these things. While imagine for six months your mind as a parent, you're like, dying. What the hell is going on with my child? I've got to figure this out quickly. Once your child is diagnosed and you spend 6000, 7000 hours on that, then you've got to find providers. There's a huge shortage of providers, and even when you get to the provider, there is a massive cost associated with it. So typically children on the spectrum, as an example, get diagnosed at the age of three or so. Ideally, actually, because the sooner you can intervene, the better the outcomes. And when they're diagnosed, they will be recommended to seek 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. Yeah.Harry Glorikian: They're not doing anything else.Paolo Pirjanian: No. And many times, many times schools are supposed to provide it. But you have one or two special needs teachers that are to deal with the whole population of kids on the spectrum in their school as an example. So they're not going to get 20, 40 hours per week. The cost of therapy is super expensive. Insurance also has to pay for it. Nowadays, they're mandated to, but the cost still adds up. On average, a family will spend $27,000 out of pocket per year, even despite insurance coverage. So not everyone has access. And also if you live in rural areas and so on, you don't have access. So. Why not have an automated system that can do this, at least filling the gap? Right. We think of Moxie as a springboard to the real world. So we want to use Moxie as an opportunity to for the child to open up to Moxie, use that as an option, teach them a number of techniques for how they can be more successful in social interactions, and then Moxie will actually encourage them to go in the real world and experience these things and come and tell it about what what, how it went. So we use Moxie as a springboard to the real world. There is another phenomena that happens, and I don't know how to describe this. You may actually have more insights in neuroscience than I do. Children, especially children that have neurodevelopmental challenges, open up to a robot like Moxie better than they do to humans.Paolo Pirjanian: Let's take autism as an example again. I remember the very first experiment we did with our first prototype. We took that prototype to a family's home. They had a ten year old son on the spectrum, and we put Moxie down. At the time we did not have the AI yet. It was the robot remotely controlled by one of our therapists. On an iPad they were typing what the robot should do and say. The child immediately opened up and start talking to Moxie. And if you look at that child, you say. And you know, as a matter of fact, I asked Mom: "I don't see anything wrong with your child. Why do you think he's on the spectrum?" And he says, well, you have to see him how he treats his peers. He doesn't open up to them. He doesn't want to talk to them. When he comes home from school it takes me, mom, a couple of hours to "find," quote unquote, my child. Tuning into the channel. So they shut down. And there's a few reasons for for sort of, I think, anecdotal or maybe rational reasons to why that is. One is that children that are on the spectrum, they completely understand feelings and emotions and so on. They are not very good at expressing themselves or or showing their feelings, but they understand if they are being rejected or teased out in a conversation and so on. So they shut down. A robot is non-judgmental, right? They understand that it's a safe, non-judgmental space.Paolo Pirjanian: The other part is that when someone like me who comes with a warmer blood and too many gestures and intonation, voice and expressive, it's too much there's too many signals going on. And that's overwhelming to a lot of children on the spectrum. And they shut down. It's too much. I cannot deal with this. Right. And so hence, a robot is finding social doing social exercises and experiences on training wheels. And helping them develop those muscles and get better at how to handle different situations when they go in the real world to interact with their peers or other people in their circle, social circle, to be successful. And that success will hopefully breeds more success. So ideally we are successful when people actually stop using our product. And as a matter of fact, we have parents reaching out to us and say, my child could not stand up in front of their classroom to say a word. Now she stands up and gives a whole presentation and we have stopped using Moxie. Thank you so much for the help that that's what what it is. It's like it's stepping stone. It's training wheels for social emotional learning so that they can have a chance of being successful, because otherwise they do not have the chance to to have these exercises to learn. We learn a lot by interacting with each other.Harry Glorikian: So the company describes Moxie as just the first iteration of a larger platform that I think you call SocialX. So what is SocialX and what other kinds of products do you envision coming out of it?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. SocialX is our technology platform, which which allows a machine to interact with us using real conversation, eye contact, body language, gestures, intonation of voice and and for the machine to do that as well as understand you on all those channels as well. That's what social platform is. The name SocialX is a juxtaposition to user experience, UX with an emphasis on the social experience. Right? We are creating a social experience. We are not just creating a user experience where you can push buttons or say a command, play music. Tell me the weather, what's the stock market like? But rather social interaction which involves social skills, emotion, skills, empathy and so on. And this is our first iteration. It's going to get exponentially more advanced. With every single user we add to our customer base, it allows us to improve SocialX because the data and the interactions that we can experience allows us to keep improving our algorithms to get better and better and better. So we decided to start with children because they are the most vulnerable in our society and we thought that's where we can have the most impact. The other end of the spectrum, where we become vulnerable again is when we are aging, right? And mental health is extremely important for aging people. And loneliness leads to a lot of mental health challenges that lead to a lot of physical challenges.Paolo Pirjanian: We know this. The surgeon general of U.S. said a couple of years ago that loneliness for elderly is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes in terms of the health implications it has. And it's true. Again, during COVID, a lot of elderly that were alone suffered massively because they were high risk for COVID. Even my mom, who lives 5 minutes away from me, I didn't visit her for a few months until we sort of figured out that we think we know how to handle COVID so it was safe to to meet meet each other. It's extremely difficult. So that's the other end of the spectrum that we intend to address. And then in between every age group, in between that, from your teens to your aging, every person in their lifetime deals with mental health challenges. As a matter of fact, the US population, 17 percent of the population at any given time deals with mental health challenges stress, depression, suicidal thoughts and so on. And having a life coach that can help you through these difficult times, we believe can have a huge impact. So eventually with those three pillars, we will be able to help the entire population. You can go beyond mental health, which is what we are focused on, because that's where we think we can have the biggest impact you could imagine.Paolo Pirjanian: You go to Disney Park and you could have an interactive character coming up to you that's not a person inside a suit, but it's actually an animated character that's walking around and talking to you and entertaining you. You can imagine going to a hotel lobby where your intake to the lobby will be serviced by an interactive character, AI character. By the way, we are also working with hospitals and schools. Right now for hospitals we work with University of Rochester Medical Center. We are currently doing a pilot of using Moxie to help children, diabetic children, to educate them about how to treat themselves and how to adhere to their treatment plan. And then there is a number of other use cases that we are going to expand into, including intake to the hospital, dealing, sort of holding their hands and making sure they are not stressed out, coming to the hospital for the first time, pre-op and then post-op. Also a lot of complications you want to avoid by making sure there is someone to remind you about your care plan and so on. So to be honest with you, the sky is the limit. But the three areas we are focused on is children, elderly and then everyone in between that suffers from mental health or loneliness type of challenges.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, there are so many other applications that I can think of that I would, you know that I could use my self. So hopefully, that will come into play because this would be something interesting for me even to interact with, depending on, you know - Don't forget to work out or, you know, there's something that you interact with regularly. Right. But so let's go to sort of the crux of the some of the issues. Right. It's it's not an inexpensive device. I mean, it does a lot. So you can't expect that it's going to be inexpensive. Right. It's it's $999 to purchase plus a separate monthly subscription of about, what is it, $39 per month for a minimum of 12 months. And so how how do you get this out to a larger group of people that really need it. Is it subsidized purchases? Is it insurance? What are you guys thinking of from a business model perspective?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. So we actually launched the product in the second half of last year for the first time and we sold out. But I agree with you that it would be much better if it was more affordable, because we don't want this to only be a product available for high income families, for rich kids to use a derogatory term maybe. We want it to be available to every every child. And for that to happen, there is a couple of different strategies we are pursuing. One is that once we get to a scale of efficacy studies that are convincing enough that we can get insurance, potentially insurance coverage to cover it or at least subsidize part of it to make it more affordable. The other approach is that we are working with bigger institutions such as hospitals and schools and libraries, by the way, which can buy it and make it available to their population. As an example, this library actually came to us, which is a very interesting business model that addresses the reach to the society that may not be high income. The library bought a fleet of Moxies from us, and they're lending them out to their society, to their members as a book. So a child gets to take Moxie home for a month and then bring it back, which is awesome because we have, by the way, we have done efficacy studies and it shows that even within a month you can see significant improvement on a lot of these social emotional skills.Paolo Pirjanian: But ultimately, that's that's how it goes. And also, just to put it in perspective to two examples. One is that robots of this nature....By the way, there is nothing like Moxie because the technology has not existed today, but people have tried, actually, SoftBank has a subsidiary called SoftBank Robotics that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing this robot called Pepper that costs $14,000 to buy and $2,000 a month to subscribe to it. Yeah. So we are orders of magnitude better than that. And that was part of the design principle that we said we want to be on par with an iPhone ownership of a cell phone. Buy it for roughly about $1,000. And you pay roughly about $50 a month in subscription. So we met that goal, which was a major accomplishment, very hard to do, but we are not satisfied with that because as I said, this has to be available. The other part of the other example is that if you have a child that needs therapy and if this cuts your therapy by a handful of therapy sessions, it pays for itself. Right? Again, ideally, we will have insurance pay for it. And so that will take some time. As you know, sort of navigating the medical fields and insurance organizations and so on will take some time, but we will get there eventually.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, I mean, I recently interviewed the CEO of Akili Interactive, Eddie Martucci, and they are the first group to get an FDA approved prescribed video game for children between eight and 12 years old with certain type of ADHD. And so, you know, they're using the prescription route as a way to have somebody pay for the clinical trials and everything else and the product itself. So I know that this business of robotics is not for the faint of heart. I mean, there's there's many different companies out there like Jibo, which was out here. Or I think there was a company in in San Francisco called Anki that, you know. You didn't pick an easy one, that's for sure, Paolo.Paolo Pirjanian: Definitely not. Definitely not.Harry Glorikian: But but, you know, I you know, I wish you incredible luck. I mean, this this thing sounds so exciting. I mean, it brings out, like, the Star Trekkie guy in me and wants to interact with it and have it do certain things or say certain things or or maybe even like interact with my wearable and be able to see something and then make a comment to me as I'm using it. So I can only wish you incredible luck and success.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. I need it and I appreciate it.Harry Glorikian: Excellent. We'll talk soon.Paolo Pirjanian: Talk soon, thank you so much for having me.Harry Glorikian: That's it for this week's episode. You can find a full transcript of this episode as well as the full archive of episodes of The Harry Glorikian Show and MoneyBall Medicine at our website. 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De oprichter van robotbedrijf Boston Dynamics zegt dat het nog lang duurt voordat we robots in huis hebben. 'Simpelweg omdat het te duur is', zegt Marc Raibert. Hij zegt dat zijn bedrijf geprobeerd heeft om een geavanceerde versie van robothond Aibo van Sony te maken, maar dat dat niet van de grond is gekomen. Toch ziet hij wel andere robotontwikkelingen in de toekomst.  Verder in de techupdate:  BMW maakt auto die van kleur kan veranderen.  TikTok sluit deal waardoor we de app overal gaan zien.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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IF YOU'RE NEW HERE: You're in the right place! On this podcast, we nerd out on the music & sound of Star Wars 5 cinematic minutes at a time. This season, each episode hyper-focuses on a single 5-minute chunk of A New Hope. Doing so allows us to get really specific about the composition, orchestration, motifs, underscore, ambience, sound design, mixing, dialogue, and most importantly, explore how the sound works in symbiosis with the film as a whole. You don't need to listen to these episodes in order, so feel free to jump around! This episode is also available on YouTube in video format.  Discussion Guide: 0:00:00 - Hello there. 0:02:31 - Layers of sound in Luke's garage. 0:06:59 - Luke's interactions with the droids and what that indicates about his character. 0:12:20 - Threepio introduces himself to Luke. Does he make a dirty joke? 0:17:06 - Threepio sounds so self-deprecating. 0:18:00 - Zap! Bloop! Cello. "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope." 0:19:18 - Hologram message looping but artfully mixed in and out. 0:20:30 - We discuss the "bigness"/drama of the cello entrance (sound clip example). This is "The Princess Appears" on the soundtrack. 0:21:34 - Leia's theme (and the difficulty thereof). 0:25:36 - Context matters when it comes to evaluating the impact/drama of musical cues. 0:27:54 - Parallel to Luke in his hut on Ahch-To in The Last Jedi. 0:29:00 - Cat bomb. 0:29:46 - Orchestration of Leia's theme while the hologram plays. Lots of beautiful space for the dialogue to lay on top. Orchestration as "pre-mixing." 0:35:26 - Recitative (the sung-style of dialogue in opera). 0:38:29 - Artoo is the smartest in the room. 0:39:09 - "Where'd she go? Bring her back! Play back the entire message!" 0:40:41 - The quirkiness of old robots (like R2) running on the same hardware and software. Aiden has a robot. 0:42:45 - Aiden talks about showing his robot Star Wars and how the robot tries to mimic Artoo and the soundtrack... 0:47:57 - Moving on to the Lars kitchen, comparing the ambient hums in the kitchen and garage. 0:55:00 - Our different relationships with scores/soundtracks, consumption habits, etc. 1:01:11 - Threepio name drops Obi-Wan Kenobi and Captain Antilles. Worldbuilding. 1:03:21 - Dialogue between Uncle Owen and Luke (while Aunt Beru watches and gives looks). 1:06:55 - Luke's personality, adventure-seeking, quick buy-in to the Force. Do gullible people take to the Force the most? 1:12:33 - Star Wars Minute podcast references. 1:15:54 - Shazam test. 1:17:18 - SWMM Questionnaire. 1:23:15 - Cat bomb. Musical Themes: 4. Leia Note: For consistency, I use the theme names and numbers established in Frank Lehman's Complete Catalogue of the Musical Themes of Star Wars. You can download it free at his website: https://franklehman.com/starwars/. Where we are in the soundtrack album: "The Princess Appears" "Hologram/Binary Sunset" Shazam test: "Sector 12" by Marsfinder "Who Am I" by Marsfinder "Daft Fader (Original Mix)" by DJ Phully "Alot More" by Jett I Masstyr "Tron, Clu, & R2D2" by DJ Digital Josh "Luke Skywalker" by MISTER References: Aiden's robots are Sony aibo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO 10 hours of the Lars family kitchen hum: https://youtu.be/ZJXEoG66LUY Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos: http://www.wendycarlos.com/+sob.html STAR WARS MUSIC MINUTE QUESTIONNAIRE: 1. In exactly 3 words, what does Star Wars sound like? Expansive. Dramatic. Romantic. 2. What's something related to Star Wars music or sound that you want to learn more about? R2-D2. 3. What's a score or soundtrack you're fond of besides anything Star Wars? TRON (composed by Wendy Carlos) GUEST LINKS: Follow Aiden Feltkamp! Website: https://www.aidenkimfeltkamp.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TransCherubino Instagram: https://instagram.com/TransCherubino SWMM LINKS: Star Wars Music Minute: YouTube: /starwarsmusicminute Twitter: @StarWarsMusMin Instagram: @starwarsmusicminute TikTok: @StarWarsMusicMinute Email: podcast@starwarsmusicminute.com Xanthe: Twitter: @chrysanthetan Instagram: @chrysanthetan Spotify Artist Page: Chrysanthe Tan Website: chrysanthetan.com Patreon: patreon.com/chrysanthetan

The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct'. This may seem over the top, but is it? In today's AI universe, all the eternal questions have become engineering problems. By Meghan O'Gieblyn. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

This week's EYE ON NPI is moving in the right direction - it's U-Blox's XPLR-AOA Direction Finding and Indoor Positioning Explorer Kit! This NPI tries to solve a well-trod but still not-fully-solved technical challenge of how to perform 3D tracking of low cost/low power 'tags' indoors. Ironically, object tracking is something that humans and animals do very well - we can even track things that have hidden themselves from view! But for robotics, this is an incredibly hard problem. Let's talk about some of the ways that we can do object tracking now, to explain why something that sounds so simple has been a challenge for decades. The way robotics do object tracking now is how the most simplistic organic vision systems work: by looking for a contrasting color or shape. This works best if something is vividly colored - like an Aibo robotic dog tracking a round pink ball (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AIBO_ERS-7_following_pink_ball_held_by_child.jpg#filelinks). Works great if the thing you're trying to track happens to be round and pink, which is not many things on this planet. Also, doesn't work particularly well if the shape is hidden or obscured. The next step up from basic shape tracking is machine learning vision systems that try to recognize objects by using layers of matrix calculations - what we would normally call OpenCV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV) or TensorFlow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_detection#/media/File:Detected-with-YOLO--Schreibtisch-mit-Objekten.jpg). This is a little more flexible, but still requires good lighting, unobscured vision, and recognizable shapes. If you don't want to use a camera, and you happen to be outside, you can use GNSS/GPS. A board with a GPS module and a radio transceiver can pretty easily determine location and then relay it back to a central station. GNSS gives you up to 10 meters This is great for cars, people, boats - all sorts of large objects. But that 10 meter precisions makes it tough for smaller items and of course, GNSS does not work indoors. (If you do want better precision, you can get it using RTK - check out our EYE ON NPI from last year https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/08/eye-on-npi-u-blox-c099-f9p-application-board-for-zed-f9p-gnss-rtk-module-eyeonnpi-adafruit-digikey-digikey-ublox/) Traditionally, when working indoors to do tracking, folks have relied on a few different technologies. In particular RSSI tracking is quite popular because its so cheap. Basically, radio signal strength falls geometrically with distance from antenna to antenna. Folks can also use time-of-flight technology, which has slowly been making it to WiFi modules (and may also make it into BTLE at some point - we'll do EYE ON NPI on that technology when it filters into the market!) As of Bluetooth 5.1, there's a new Direction Finding capability built into the wireless specification. Bluetooth direction finding makes it possible to determine the direction that radio signals travel from a mobile tag to one or several fixed anchor points. Using angle-of-arrival (AoA) technology, anchor points comprising an antenna array that is connected to a Bluetooth receiver can detect the direction, or angle, to the mobile tag, which transmits a Bluetooth signal. When a constellation of such multi-antenna anchors is deployed, AoA technology can be used to triangulate the precise location of a mobile device or tag. (https://www.u-blox.com/en/press-releases/u-blox-presents-bluetooth-aoa-explorer-kits-high-precision-indoor-positioning) Note that this is not distance measurements, it's angular measurements. But, of course - if you have a few fixed antenna station locations its easy to convert a set of angles into a precise location! The angle calculations seem to give better accuracy than plain RSSI - 1 to 2 meters - and can be used for more than just location sensing. For example, in this demo from U-Blox, a camera can follow a tag just with angular data since we don't care how far away the target is, just that it is in frame (https://www.u-blox.com/en/blogs/tech/how-we-built-our-bluetooth-direction-finding-demo) Direction Finding is included in any U-Blox/Nordic module that supports BLE 5.1, but to make it easy we recommend picking up a XPLR-AOA Direction Finding and Indoor Positioning Explorer Kit (https://www.digikey.com/short/q3dpn32p) that has the antenna configuration needed and laid out. It's a lot easier and faster than routing your own boards - the 'tags' are any BLE module and do not need special design considerations. Lucky for us, the U-Blox XPLR-AOA Direction Finding and Indoor Positioning Explorer Kit (https://www.digikey.com/short/q3dpn32p) is in stock at Digi-Key right now, and is an excellent way to get started immediately with trying out the new technology. If you want a more advanced setup, with 4 fixed-point-nodes and 4 tags, sign up for the XLPR-AOA-2 kit (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/u-blox/XPLR-AOA-2/14666759).

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This week, there's gadget's and gizmos galore (and we don't mean our erstwhile editor!) For every iPhone, there's a thousand N-Gages, for every Roomba, there's an Aibo. We're talking failed tech today, as we dive into some of the tech we've loved, hated, or thought were boneheaded, that ultimately never saw mainstream success. But before all that, we discussed: Arrested Development Dragon Quest XI Bravely Default II Clarkson's Farm The Devil All The Time CONTACT US @ModernEscapism twitch.tv/modernescapism modernescapismpod@gmail.com https://discord.gg/bfNnu8P You can support us on Patreon now! Head over to support us and gain some lovely extras for your enjoyment: https://www.patreon.com/modernescapism Check out our other podcast; Do Dragons Dream Of Scorched Sheep? - A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast: Do Dragons Dream Of Scorched Sheep? - A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast - Hosted by Modern Escapism (acast.com) You can also follow us individually at: @OodlesODimm @Stig_Stu @Bigkopman @Gadget8Bit @Candymachine85 This episode was produced and edited by @Gadget8Bit Spotify Playlist Link https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7n3h37BPaHaQanoQl3rYsw

Bon vendredi! On termine une sublime semaine de shows en compagnie de notre invité: Simon Predj. On va s'ennuyer de lui! Au menu: Guy nous décrit la voiture de ton ami quand t'avais quinze ans, Vanessa s'inquiète des vidéos DeepFake, Chuck se remémore le robot Aibo (pour une raison obscure) et Simon nous parle de l'auto de son amie Marie-Christine. Tout y est pour clôturer la semaine. Merci d'avoir été là, passe une belle fin de semaine et à lundi prochain ;)   Simon: https://bit.ly/3fzblVO Vanessa: http://goo.gl/bcRVA9 Guy: http://bit.ly/2jYVN3K Chuck: http://bit.ly/2L45sBi

Episode 81 What do robotic Torah scribes, Bluetooth rosaries, and a decapitated hitchhiking robot have in common? They're all teaching us what it means to be spiritual beings in the 21st century. Whether we like it or not, smart, adaptive technology is working its way into our religious and spiritual lives. Will we use it thoughtfully to enhance our lives or will it just become another technological nuisance? We're still in the early days of AI, and our actions today will have an outsized impact on how it develops. Let's be intentional, thoughtful, and prayerful about how we shepherd its growth, and become the sorts of people that Hitchbot would be proud to call friends.    Support this podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/DowntheWormholepodcast   More information at https://www.downthewormhole.com/   produced by Zack Jackson music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis    Show Notes To read: 1) The church of AI https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ 2) Robot religious functions https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/9/20851753/ai-religion-robot-priest-mindar-buddhism-christianity 3) Funerals for robotic companions https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funerals-for-fallen-robots/279861/ 4) AIBO funerals and our humanity https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/robot-funerals-reflect-our-humanity 5) Can robots pray (and a super creepy monk)...we didn't talk about this, but it is still a fascinating part of the conversation https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-robot-pray-does-an-automaton-have-a-soul-ai-and-theology-meet 6) Values-based AI https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/priest-rabbi-robot-walk-into-bar-religion-technology.html 7) The Southern Baptist Convention principles on AI (again, didn't talk about this in particular but it is creative and proactive rather than reactive) https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/southern-baptist-convention-artificial-intelligence-evangelical-statement-principles.html  8) Hitchbot (wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT  9) Social Credit system used in China (wiki article) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System  10) 5min video on what the Social credit system looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGoodPlace/comments/a719ko/s1e1_chinas_social_credit_system_resemblance_to/ 11) Point system in the Good place https://howard-chai.medium.com/a-look-at-the-moral-point-system-of-the-good-place-7858215fd9dc 12) Opportunity's last words and goodbye tributes https://laist.com/2019/02/16/jpl_mars_rover_opportunity_battery_is_low_and_its_getting_dark.php   Transcript This transcript was automatically generated by www.otter.ai, and as such contains errors (especially when multiple people are talking). As the AI learns our voices, the transcripts will improve. We hope it is helpful even with the errors.    Zack Jackson 00:04 You are listening to the down the wormhole podcast exploring the strange and fascinating relationship between science and religion. This week our hosts are   Rachael Jackson 00:14 Rachel Jackson Rabbi at Agoudas Israel congregation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. And my favorite fictional robotic companion is Data from Star Trek Next Generation.   Zack Jackson 00:30 Zack Jackson UCC pastor in Reading, Pennsylvania, and my favorite fictional robotic companion is Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.   Ian Binns 00:42 Ian Binns Associate Professor of elementary science education at UNC Charlotte. And my favorite is R2D2   Kendra Holt-Moore 00:51 Kendra Holt-Moore PhD candidate at Boston University. And my favorite fictional robot companion is also Data. Because I just started watching Star Trek, and I love him.   Rachael Jackson 01:07 Resistance is futile Welcome on board.   Zack Jackson 01:12 I don't think she's gotten that far yet.   Rachael Jackson 01:13 No, not that don't be fine.   Zack Jackson 01:15 Well that'll be funny in a couple weeks.   Rachael Jackson 01:20 Okay, so thank you for that question. I'm glad that we were able to start there. And as we are doing our AI series, and I wanted to talk about this in a slightly different way than we have been talking about it. So previously, we've talked about transhumanism and cyborgs. And really, what is the concept? Last time we talked about this, we really focused on education. And so today, I really wanted to focus our conversation on religion, right, what is AI in relation to religion, and that in and of itself is a huge topic. But I want to start with an example from my tradition. And this example, is the use of ritual of a particular ritual object and how, how it appears. So I'll go into a little bit of detail there. In Judaism, we read the five the five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers in Deuteronomy, from a scroll, rather than from a Codex form. And the scroll form doesn't have vowels. It doesn't have punctuation marks doesn't have page numbers. So it can be very complicated to read. And not only that, it's extremely complicated to write. It takes a scribe who's working on parchment, which is animal skin, with using a quill dipped in special ink, writing on this paper, and the letters have to be extremely precise, and everything the columns are justified. And if anyone has ever tried to hand write in justified columns, it's so crazy hard. So sometimes the letters look really long, or sometimes the letters are really squished and it's just it's a very laborious, intensive intensive in terms of time but intensive also in terms of emotional and and frankly redundancy. And for for a good scribe or for a professional scribe, a year to a year and a half is what it takes full time to write a Torah. And then each of the peaches, pieces of parchment are stitched together rolled up and Mazel Tov we have we have a scroll. I don't want to necessarily give an estimate, because I don't want to undersell those that are that are paying for this. They're a brand new one is anywhere between 40 and $80,000. Just Just to give a Yeah. Wow.   Zack Jackson 04:05 Yeah, I guess you're paying the wages for a year.   Rachael Jackson 04:08 You're paying the wages, you're also paying, like parchment is animal skin, like that's not cheap. And these use, you know, many, many animals. Again, it depends on the size of the parchment and the kind of animal if you're using, like, goat skin, how many pieces of parchment you can get per goat, like it's, it's a lot.   Kendra Holt-Moore 04:30 How big is the finished product.   Rachael Jackson 04:32 So the parchment itself can vary. It's anywhere between, say 18 and 36 inches tall. Right, so top to bottom, and of course, there's a there's borders around it so that you're not just touching the scroll every time so 18 to 36 inches. Our synagogue is lucky enough to have three scrolls of various sizes, and then you put them on wooden die. You stitch them into wooden dowels and roll them up that way. And so when you're actually scrolling the scroll, you're using the wooden dowels to move, you know, literally go through the parchment that way and that way, of course, we, we make it pretty, because everything needs jewelry. And so we put a beautiful gown on top of it, and we put some finishing touches on it, and then the pointer because you're never supposed to actually touch it. And so the thing that you're carrying around our largest one is about 50 pounds, and is over four feet tall. You know, Tao is over four feet and over 50 pounds.   Kendra Holt-Moore 05:34 It's massive.   Rachael Jackson 05:35 Yeah, they're massive write these and no, of course, there are small ones, right, you can get one that's about 12 inches, but they're extremely hard to write, which actually makes the cost go up because like you're doing tiny print then and,   Kendra Holt-Moore 05:48 and then you also have to buy a magnifying glass to rewrite.   Rachael Jackson 05:51 They're really hard to read because like I said, No vowels, no punctuation. Really hard to read.   Ian Binns 05:58 So, gosh, that sounds like an awful lot of work. Can I interrupt? Of course, is it required? Or maybe required is not the right word. But does every synagogue? Have one? That is the goal? Yes. Okay, so the goal is very, but it's not like, there's not anything written in where it says for you. It's pretty much.   Rachael Jackson 06:19 It's pretty much it's pretty much there. Yeah, it's not that you have to. But how do you read from the Torah, if you don't have one? Right? I mean, you're reading from a Codex of Hamas, a Torah, write a paper Torah. But like, if you're going to do it, like the best you can do is do it well. And so sometimes there's like loans like, oh, there's a little small synagogue over here that doesn't have one, we'll loan it to you for, you know, 30 years or something,   Ian Binns 06:44 do you have like, Are any of those in your office where you're in our worship space,   Rachael Jackson 06:50 oh, they're all in the sanctuary. And they're all under a locked cabinet. And they are all there is a fire a smoke detector inside the ark where we keep them. And the fire department knows that, that save those, like, if you're here for a fire, go right there. And we'll deal with the rest of the building. Like they're really they're that important, like they are the most important thing in the synagogue. So parchment and scribing is expensive and intensive. So the question is, will then why do it? Right? Like, why have a person do this, we've had printing presses for hundreds of years at this point. And okay, so you don't want to print the toy because you can't really it's hard to do printed to our on parchment. Okay, but now when the 21st century, and the 21st century, we can have a mechanical hand, actually write the Torah, and it can use a parchment, it can use the special ink and it just once you program it in there with all the specifications, this AI robot can write the Torah. So why wouldn't we have that and once you've put in the the capital of programming it, you just go right, you don't have to you don't have to change it up. So many times, you don't have to repay the programmer. Every time you just say, Nope, we just need more parchment more ink. Alright, so if we're still doing a halakhically, what is the role of the person? What does the person bring to this, that a robot can't or a and I'm using AI in this a not just a robot, because as I was saying, like, they can be different size parchments, the column width can be different. So you have to you have to teach the robot or the robot has to know what what justification in this, you know, full justified center justified looks like and so it has to know looking at the parchment, so it has to learn not just be programmed. So that's how I'm using AI as opposed to just a robot program. And there's a female scribe, which is a whole different category of, you know, egalitarianism and feminism that we won't get into this particular episode, but there's a female scribe, and Julia seltzer, who with I think it was five other women scribed an entire Torah together like each one of them took most of a book, Deuteronomy is really long. And then they stitched it together. And what she noticed is that their handwriting was different, that someone might have had like a little bit more of a flourish when they made the crown on a letter or a little bit like maybe one looked a little blockier and the other one looked a little bit softer, that looks different and you know, the person behind it and so now you're like I don't I don't study the scribe but there aren't that many in the world and there there haven't been so if you know the age and the location of the tour that you have You know, the person who scribed it, there is a story, there are memories, there is an intention behind it, there is an awareness of what you're doing. And that awareness doesn't exist in AI and robots. There's a prayer in Judaism, which says, Thank you like in the mornings, thank you for my soul. And thank you for the awareness of my soul. And it's that extra step that I think is missing, when we're looking at what can I do, as far as religion is concerned? So I just wanted to open up with the tour and saying it would be far cheaper, and far more accurate if we chose to do this sort of robotic arm AI printing than using a person. But it's not just about the money, right? in religion, it's not just what is the bottom line? Right? That's, that's one of the things that makes religious organizations different than, you know, other businesses or for profit centers. And I'm being kind that religions are not for profit centers, and sort of being generous to religion as a concept, in those ways, that it's not about doing it the cheapest and fastest. So what is it about? So when we look at again, using the example of writing the Torah? What What is it? So that's where I wanted to start. And so that's when one place for my tradition of where AI could be used, but we're choosing not to use it and wondering if there are places that you could see, either as an object or as a ritual in and of itself, from your traditions, or you are understandings that could or could not be substituted with AI?   Zack Jackson 12:00 Yeah, so there's a product that you can purchase from the Vatican itself. That is basically a Fitbit. For your your rosary.   12:14 Yes, I   Zack Jackson 12:14 saw that, were you It's great, because it's got its own little charging station, and you pick it up, and you make the sign of the cross on it. And that activates it. And then it's able to tell by the weighted beads, and for those of you who maybe aren't as familiar with rosary has a certain amount of beads. And the point is to hold a bead while you say a prayer, and then move to the next bead. While you say a prayer. It's a physical act while you're doing a spiritual act, in order to connect the full body to engage all of your senses, and to help you keep track of what you're doing while you're doing it. Because like, if you're saying a prayer a number of times in a row, how are you going to keep track? Like, do you lose track, you know, like, well, I guess I got to start over again, or start writing it down or something. So the rosary has long been a helpful tool for people. But in this one, it now syncs up to your phone, and can remind you, if you haven't been doing your prayers, or reward you, if you have been doing your prayers. Have you know, there might be social functions where you can encourage each other, I know that there was by the Bible gateway app, introduced a social aspect to it. And then suddenly, I started getting notifications like crazy, where all of my friends were like, connect with so and so on Bible gateway and share your daily devotional, your practice your reading. And so then that now there's this kind of social pressure, that now everyone knows what I'm reading. And now I have to make sure I'm reading extra spiritual stuff. Make sure everyone else knows how spiritual I am. And so there are some issues with that. I think we're now it Jesus says, practice your religion in secret, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. If possible, go into a closet where no one knows you're there. He says that if you are fasting, not to put on sackcloth and ashes and let everyone know that you're super spiritual, but to put on your Sunday best and act like everything is normal. So nobody knows. And so a lot of these we talked last time about the gamification of education and other things. And so when you have sort of the gamification of, of religious practice, then I don't know, you start to want to show off a little bit or feel that social pressure that a lot of the church because of, you know, but I don't know, I've never used one of these. So maybe they're great. I do love love. All gadgets. That's fascinating. That's,   Rachael Jackson 15:03 that's a great word gadget. Right? It's using tech to encourage a particular practice. And one of the pitfalls, I think, is when we make that practice public, the Fitbit idea, right, you can have your own Fitbit, and not tell anybody, by the way, and you can set your own, you can set your own, like, tell it get up every 10 minutes or get up at you know, 10 minutes every hour, or whatever it is, and you don't have to tell people, but then we get that bias built in of whoever is creating the software, whoever is creating the technology, what is their value system. Sort of like the zoo, I didn't, I never joined the Bible gateway group, nor did a join this other way that I'm going to say, covenant eyes, right? Like basically, where you can have a person, double check your browser history, to make sure that you're staying on the up and up the accountability of what you're looking at on the internet. And as we all know, the internet was created for porn. So if the internet is created for porn, then your covenant eyes need to make sure you're not doing that. I'm being a little flippant, but maybe not that much. But that then turns into, it could turn into a race of I am holier than thou Look at, look at how much I'm doing and posturing and buckling under peer pressure, and then you're losing that that authenticity, and then suddenly, it's just besting each other, which kind of goes against most religious tenants from most religions that I'm aware of, right, like, look how better I am than you are at this. But building in that value system, and I think that's, that's the really dark gray area that could get pretty twisted, when we look at AI because at this point, at least, there is not sentience and choice in AI, which means it's all about the person who's programming it and the values that they're using. Yeah, I   Kendra Holt-Moore 17:45 think it's interesting, the examples that we're talking about are, seems to be examples of what AI takes away from us, or from religious traditions, whether that's like authenticity, or, you know, like not not having a person's story behind a tourist scroll. But instead, it being you know, a robot that has like standard handwriting and all these things, or, you know, the rosary gadget that, you know, for whatever reason, there's something that we feel is missing from these rituals and relationships. And I like that all makes a lot of sense to me. But I was really struck by one of the articles that Rachel shared with us before our meeting today, and it was an article in The Atlantic called funerals for fallen robots. Yes. And that that piece was just like highlighting the emotional attachment that people have for robots and how we, you know, the, the emphasis here is not so much on like, the nature of AI itself. I mean, it is a little bit, but it's more about, I think it's more about, like how humans create themselves, like the creation of the self through relationship with objects, which is something we've always done like before robots, but it's so interesting to me, because it's like, is that something is that like, what the flip side of AI is, we gain a lot by having potentially these robots, or, you know, even if it's just like a gadget, you know, like, I definitely have emotional attachments to like random objects, just like little tokens on my desk, because of the person who gave it to me. Or, you know, I have like a pouch of these. I call them my study tokens. They're just like little random buttons and pins and rocks and little figurines that people have given to me and I set them around my computer sometimes when I like really need to Get in the zone. And you know, they're not robots, but it's like this like emotional attachment with these inanimate like metal and rock objects on my desk. And I would be so sad if I lost any one of these things. And so I think it's like a very similar kind of relationship that if we look at robots and AI, like we can still form those kinds of attachments, and they might even be deeper, if AI is mimicking the kinds of like, human effect and human thought. And I just think that's so interesting, because it I, there was a long time where I thought, like, my gut reaction is that oh, well, that's still kind of empty, though. Like, it doesn't mean anything. And then like, the older I get, and the more I've like, thought about this, especially as technology just changes, I think that's like, I think it's really a powerful relationship, even though it's very weird to think about. But like, if I had a robot, and it was like, you know, r two D two, or data or you know, any, any of our like, famous robot companions from any fictional universe, yeah, I would want to, like protect that robot friend, and make sure that it was charged every day and make sure that it was like, happy and whatever, since that robots can be happy. And I think that that whatever, whatever we can say about the realness or not realness of that relationship, I think what's true about it is that it changes who we are. And it reflects something about who we are and who we are becoming. Because everything that we have a relationship with in the world plays on or, you know, helps to create the virtues that we have the weaknesses that we have the personalities that we have. And I just think that's really cool. And really interesting, because it doesn't have to just be with humans. And that's always been the case.   Zack Jackson 22:02 I that. I think we need to take a second and pour one out for hich bot while we're at it. Do you remember hitch bought? No. So it was a an adorable two young little robot from but too young. It was like 1013   Kendra Holt-Moore 22:22 Is it like a Tamagotchi?   Zack Jackson 22:24 No in 2013. So eight years ago, these developers in Canada made this robot and they made it to kind of look junkyard chic is how they called it, where it was cylindrical body. And it's got these like pool noodle arms and legs and this adorable little face. And the point of it was an social experiment to see if robots could trust humans. So it can't walk. But it can talk. And it was equipped with 3g connection and GPS, so that it could update its own social media accounts. And it could talk to the people who interacted with it and ask them to hitch a ride to the next place. And encourage them to like talk back to it had some rudimentary AI so it could communicate with people like a chatbot. And people would take pictures with it, it would be such an honor to like stumble upon hitch bot, and you get to update your social media and be like, I dropped it off here. And now the next person picks it up. It went across Canada three different times. I think. It went across Germany and the Netherlands.   Rachael Jackson 23:35 And then it just went the second one went across Germany.   Zack Jackson 23:38 Okay, but in 2015 tried to go across the US but got decapitated in Philly. Because Because Billy and if you were to ask me, somebody who's lived in Philly, and is from south south Jersey, where it would have been killed, I would have told you it would have been Philadelphia.   Rachael Jackson 24:04 Also, just just to add to that, it only its goal was to start in Boston. I remember Following this, it was it started in Boston and was going to get to San Francisco, got decapitated in Philly. And the head was never found. Like it didn't even it's not like it started in San Francisco. No, it started in Boston, and only got to Philly.   Zack Jackson 24:29 It had made it out of the East Coast or totally would have gotten there. It would have gotten there. If you can make it out of the East Coast, then you're okay.   Rachael Jackson 24:37 Ichabod I love what you're saying. Right? Like this idea of what is our attachment both from an emotional standpoint or she's made from an individual standpoint, but then also a cultural right like this poor hitch bot was totally fine and the Netherlands and Germany and Canada and the US we were like I don't trust you. Yeah. decapitate. Wow, season four of shields calculating things. So but what? What does that say about us and our relationship? And I think that's also what you were saying Kendra, right? This, this funeral for a bow AI Bo. I might be mispronouncing it. But that's how I had heard it. Right, these these robotic dogs. And it's true that even in the military people that have military companions, robotic companions, there's a sadness there. I mean, there was there was a famous movie, it wasn't a robot. But oh, Castaway. Right, Tom Hanks and Wilson, the volleyball, right there were weird, I think the movie was quiet for what 40 minutes, there was no dialogue or something like that, something crazy like that. And we were all just like, we'll setting like, we'll set it like we were just like something. And we had this immense attachment to a movie volleyball. No, it's just, it was so powerful, in fact, could create how much of the more so something has been there, watching your back, if something has been there carrying you on. And so many of us use objects as tools, right, that I don't have a deep attachment to my laptop or to my phone, like I use them, but I don't have an emotional attachment. My son, who's who's almost seven has had the same Kindle for, I guess we got him three years ago. And he has an emotional attachment to his Kindle, like he cares for it, he makes sure that it's in the right place, he makes sure that it's clean, he's sad, when it doesn't work, he makes sure that it's it's charged so that he can carry it with them. Like, it's very different than I need to use this as a tool, right. And so for me, we're able to use a AI or technology, we're using those a little interchangeably, as an ability to start forming relationships and bonds that teach us about who we are. And in religion, it's my, it's my understanding that one of the things that religion does, is teach us and help us with relationships, relationships, and in all, in all dimensions. And and I say that in the horizontal, it teaches us how to be in relationship with the world around us and those within the world around us, including ourselves, it is a vertical relationship, such that we have a relationship with the past and the future. And it's also the z axis relationship, which to me is the Divinity or spiritual aspect, right. So if we're on an X, Y, Z axis, the z axis would be the godly aspect. Or however each religion chooses to understand that which is not known. But it's, it's all relationships as almost as a stark difference from facts. And so if AI can teach us those things, or teach us how to do those things, or encourage those things, or grow those things, I think it can be a beautiful relationship, which is a couple of the other articles that that I'll post in the show notes, or I'll have Zack post in the show notes. So I think that there's beauty in there, what we need to make sure that when we're using them, and they're using us, that we recognize the values and that we trust what's in front of us. And I think that's an important piece that we're not that we haven't fully fully digested. How do we gain this trust? Right, so so Zack brought in the hitch bot, where it couldn't trust Americans and Americans couldn't trust it. And it is no longer, right. How do we develop the trust, which is the foundation of relationships?   Kendra Holt-Moore 29:17 Yeah. And I think that it's interesting to think about the trust that we can develop with these, you know, Ai, whatever technology, we're talking about these emotional attachments, and how that's a really different that's a really different relationship to these objects than talking about whether or not AI and you know, future robots will deserve rights. Which is like really interesting, because I think there's a natural blending of those ideas where over time, if we're treating something like we're In a relationship with it in the same way we would be with the human. That conversation to me kind of feels a note inevitable. I don't know, like what the answer will end up being. But, you know, like, that's already a conversation of like, Can robots? Or should robots who are more like Android in nature? Should they be granted citizenship, which is just like, so crazy to think about, but I think is, you know, is going to be a conversation that's like, way more prominent, like way down the line in the future when we do have robots that are a lot more like us. But for now, I think it's a lot easier actually, to ask the question of like, how can we trust the technology that's in front of us? Because that feels a little bit more manageable? I think, still a really hard question, because you have to think about the ethics of, and the values that go into programming. And that's like a huge debate to have about the, you know, the cultural code of the robot in front of you, and how that conflicts with whoever's using it or interacting with it. So still really difficult. But it's, I think, still maybe a little bit more manageable than talking about, like robot citizenship.   Zack Jackson 31:45 Have you all heard about what's going on in China with the social credit scores?   Rachael Jackson 31:50 Oh, yes. Oh, it's so scary,   Ian Binns 31:53 I want you to unpack that for us. Because that was interesting,   Zack Jackson 31:55 a way of, of using AI, especially, to keep humans in line. While they're already well known for their facial recognition, and the fact that there's cameras everywhere, and that those cameras are always tracking who you are and where you are, and what you're doing.   Rachael Jackson 32:15 Said, right and said with pride that I think it was that once you enter the public sphere, meaning not your own home, within three seconds, it can identify their entire population, like 1.4 billion people within three seconds.   Ian Binns 32:33 That was crazy,   Zack Jackson 32:35 which sure helped to keep the COVID under control, but also their populace. And so they've been doing these trial runs, in some places have adopted them more thoroughly, where they're essentially keeping record of each individual person and giving that person a score based on their trustworthiness. So things that might negatively impact your social credit rating might be things like playing loud music, or eating food on Rapid Transit when you're not supposed to, or jaywalking or speeding, or this is a good one, making reservations at a restaurant and then not showing up. Oh, yeah, I'm not correctly sorting your recycling. And if your score gets too low, you might be denied things. Like, I think I read that there was like 80,000 people so far, who had not been able to get on trains, because their social score was too low, and they couldn't be trusted on it. And if you want to get out of that, it takes like two to five years to get out of that. Or you can work really hard to raise your score. By doing things like donating to charity, or giving blood or volunteering or praising the government on social media.   Ian Binns 34:06 I feel like 10s of millions of Americans would have been screwed during the last administration.   Zack Jackson 34:10 Right? Yeah. So like, if you want good things like, you know, a line of credit to buy a house or favorable terms on loans, or getting   Rachael Jackson 34:22 a reservation at a restaurant   Zack Jackson 34:24 or getting a reservation at a restaurant, like you'd better make sure that your social social score is high. And this is, I mean, this is also a society that as is a shame, shame and honor based society. And so kind of taking advantage of that. In order to control the populace, using opaque artificial intelligence like No, nobody, this is not open source data. This is stuff that's tracking your every single movement, so you might be out walking Down the street somewhere, and you reach in your pocket to get your phone and a receipt falls out your pocket, and you get docked for littering, because it knows what you just did. And it was watching you. And supporters of this. say that this is going to be a way of creating a utopian society where like plenty of people will just do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do. Do these   Kendra Holt-Moore 35:24 dystopian literature come on over?   Rachael Jackson 35:28 China, they don't have it. Yeah, it's not an   Zack Jackson 35:32 like, this will finally do what religion failed to do. In keeping the people in line and making a morally just society, because it offers punishments that are immediate, and felt instead of like, afterlife based.   Rachael Jackson 35:49 Yeah. And daily and daily life. impactful, right? Not just, yeah, eventually, one day, this will come back to bite you. And that took us, but like, Oh, I can't get on the bus today. Like, oh, that has impacted my life. And this is like, I'm wondering, did they ride? Or did they take notes from the good place? With this feels, this feels very much like the scores that people are getting based on their activities. And one of the things that I am troubled by, in this just one of very many things I'm troubled by with this whole scenario is we don't actually know the end result of a single action. So let's just take the littering on on the face of it. That seems like a pretty like, we'd all kind of get behind that. Right? Like, you don't want to litter like I'm not a fan of littering, and we talk about it and we don't want to do it. And sometimes Adrian IO and you know, his friends will go pick up the litter that we find in the in the park. Right, littering. I'm totally behind that. In this particular society, as far as I have read, and I, I could be corrected, please. Having clean streets is really important. Right that there's there is a value in the in the culture of having clean public spaces, in order to have clean public spaces. Somebody has to do that job. So if somebody accidentally litres, and then they get docked for it, then people stop littering. How many jobs did that cost? There was no intent behind the littering. But the accidental littering or the wind took it away. How many jobs did that cost? And what are the life what is the life like for those people whose job was to literally be a human a street sweeper. And, and those ramifications, that we're not able to see the human cost? Again, minus the whole dystopian issue, but that to be docked for something that seems dockable. But we don't know where this where this is going. That's where I'm uncomfortable with this, like, how far are we going? Oh,   Kendra Holt-Moore 38:19 but on the other hand, maybe we should just let the robots take all of our jobs so that we can just focus on our hobbies and have universal basic income. Am I right?   Rachael Jackson 38:29 Totally. Right. I just want to start doing more cross stitching. So yes, I am 100% on board with just take my job. Right? But   Kendra Holt-Moore 38:38 but we got to have the infrastructure like you're right. That's not where we are right now. But I hope one day, we can all have our hobbies, and money and just like live our lives because work   Zack Jackson 38:50 shouldn't be all I mean, according to will robots take my job calm. I'm only point 8% likely that clergy will be replaced by AI and robots,   Rachael Jackson 39:01 right. And we have seen that so very clearly in this last year. Because the people that have been in hospitals or have died or have had a funeral, or have had any sort of life cycle moment in which they want their clergy there, in addition to whatever worship we have on the weeks, there's no comparison and holding someone's hand. That, yeah, it'd be great if a robot did my job, but I don't think a robot could do my job. Right? Because there's something about the touch. There's something about the human connection. There's something about the look in a person's eyes that says, I see you and I empathize with whatever you're going through. That we haven't gotten there yet with AI and while the technical aspects of most of our jobs could be done I think even the jobs where it's a 95%, your job could be done by AI, or robot. It's not going to be a healthy thing. Because Where are we getting those relationships? Sorry, and I'm talking about   Ian Binns 40:15 that's okay. I'm just makes me think about like, if we think about so instead of just, you know, a thought experiment, I guess on what are the things in our so not necessarily to take our entire job? But what are the things within our particular professions? That if robots or AI took over that aspect profession, what would free us up to do more of beautiful things? We could do more? Still still with your profession? Yes, hobbies? Definitely. But like, so for me. And I know, we brought this up in the last episode. For me, especially it's like grading, for example. You know, if there were robots or you know, something like that, that could I mean, obviously, it's easier now than it used to be because of technology. But if that was a way where it can be fully programmed to do all of that for me, then what? There are other, I'm certain that there, it will give me time to do other things.   Rachael Jackson 41:18 Really? Okay, I'm gonna push you on that one a little bit. The reason I say that, barring Scantron tests, which are stupid. Good. Sorry, for those that I'm offending that do. I feel like you get to know your student based on the answers, they give in the questions, that you're losing something when you don't grade their papers. You're losing, how they're thinking you're losing. And what what creativity are they coming up with? And so, so I would say, if you're not doing that, you're not seeing the individual? What are if, if that part is taken away by robots, which I'm not quite sure how you would do that equitably? I would have to be a pretty smart robot to try to grade individual questions that aren't Scantron based, or that multiple choice, how else would you then get to know the students like that, to me isn't where you spend the time, right? in getting to know like, having coffee shop our having, you know, let's sit down and chat for 20 minutes, just because like the 20 minutes, I would have spent grading your essays. Now let's just talk about them. But I don't I don't know how you could equitably do that, honestly. And also,   Ian Binns 42:42 what I'm curious about is though, that, to me, is still less thinking in the same way that things are done now. Like I'm almost pushing us to think, what other avenues could it open. If some skill, some things like that, that can become very time consuming. I'm not saying already, like, there are definitely parts that I would still need to do as human. But I think there are some things that may make it where I could end up spending more time on other tasks and other ways of getting to know students and connecting with him. potentially even more fully.   Zack Jackson 43:22 Yeah.   Ian Binns 43:23 So all by all the grading, it's okay. So I'm just curious, like, Are there ways within your professions that there are some mundane things that you're just like, you know, what, if I could get rid of that imagine I would have more time on this,   Rachael Jackson 43:38 you know, what I gotta say, I have predictive text set up on my Gmail. And I have had it set up on my like, I've been using the same gmail account for work for six years. I'm pretty like I change it up, I don't, I don't write the same exact same thing every time. But I have a particular way of talking in email. I have a particular rabbinic voice or a style that's in email, just like when you if any of you were to ever talk to me on the phone, and and I pick up and I say, Hello, this is Robert Jackson, you hear my voice go up by about half an octave. It is amazing. Um, so I have that same sort of tick quality characteristic in my email. And so now when I'm writing an email, it will the predictive text will have almost the entire sentence written if I write one or two words, and I go, yeah, that's what I want. tab, tab, tab. And next thing you know, my entire email is written in two minutes rather than six. And so as a person who writes enter between 20 and 50 emails, writes 20 to 50 emails a day. That's that's been helpful, right? It's it's freed me up to have the conversation with someone in person.   Zack Jackson 45:19 I think a database that would help keep track of who is sick? Who is? Well, who is recovered? And who's related to who would be really helpful?   Rachael Jackson 45:35 Oh, I have that for you, I can send you the link. I well.   Zack Jackson 45:38 So one that that can also like predict things. I'm thinking AI wise, where, like, I know that this person has this condition, this condition and has been in the hospital this amount of time this amount of time. And then so you might want to check in on this person at this time. You know, have you talked with so and so lately? They haven't been in church? Oh, yeah. Okay, that's a good point, there's probably something going on. Because like, my mind personally doesn't work like that. I cannot hold on to details about individual people. Especially when I have that many people. Were I think, like, Oh, I haven't seen that person in six weeks, because I've been with the other people. And I haven't thought about it, or Oh, yeah, that's right, they did get COVID last month, and I never checked back in on them. I wonder how they're doing now like that kind of a thing, connected with the local hospitals, which could update me on people's medical conditions, as well as like death of relatives who maybe aren't members of my church, like it's scanning through the obituaries of the local papers to be like, Oh, well, I have this member whose uncle just died. But they're not. The uncle is not a member of my church. And so now I know that maybe I should reach out to this person, like that kind of assistance and pastoral care would be really helpful, because nine times out of 10, I miss it. And then I realized after the fact that I could have been a comforting presence in that moment.   Rachael Jackson 47:08 Although I will just say, I do have an awesome pastoral care website that I use. And it's, it's super helpful. It's not AI. But it's really amazing to help me to help me do those exact same to do those things. Again, it doesn't connect to the hospitals. It doesn't it doesn't scan obituaries, but it helps. It's my own personal. It's my own personal pastoral care assistant. Well, we   Zack Jackson 47:33 have a lot of clergy who listen, what's the website,   Rachael Jackson 47:36 it's called notebaert. And ot e bi, rd note, bird. And it is awesome. And I'm happy to share this and happy to be a poster child's No, they're not paying me for any reason. I just love it.   Zack Jackson 47:49 But they could.   Rachael Jackson 47:53 Really, and and they are. They're totally non denominational. Like, they they listened to the Jews, and they put stuff in there for the Jews. But there's a whole bunch of stuff in there for Christians to like, I haven't, you know, communion wise, I didn't, I didn't look at all the Christian stuff, because I don't need to. And they're extremely responsive and wonderful. And I could just like sing their praises all day long. Because I think we're getting there, right? Like, we keep having these, these brainstorming so we can get there. And I think if we're not afraid of it, and I keep going back to what Kendra was saying, right, that that initially, we started talking about the drawbacks, and Ken was like, Hey, what about all the positives? Wait, it could be so great. It would like it would just be wonderful. If our values were there, right, the value of pastoral care would have to be there.   Kendra Holt-Moore 48:50 Yeah. And I think to like another way of thinking about, like how AI would like, you know, supplement people's jobs. It's not even that, like all of the things that we do in academia or as clergy. I don't, I don't really know how AI is gonna, like supplement what any of us do besides like what we're talking about now with, like databases, like technology stuff, sure. But I just think, like, there are a different category of jobs that AI can do. So that it like frees up people like maybe, maybe there will be more people who want to be clergy members, or like, you know, researchers and teachers. And since AI is doing, you know, the jobs that those people might have been doing now, we have all these people who want to do these jobs, but we don't have to work the whole year. Like maybe we're on a half year schedule. And then you know, we switch out and then the robot or not the robot that that People who would have been doing, I don't know, pick a job, what's a job that maybe AI is going to take over one day? I guess we use the idea of like the streets with images, or sandwiches? Yeah, sandwiches. You know, like, it just creates an abundance of like, time, I guess is what it's giving us, or like opportunity to do something that you might not have thought you were going to do. I don't know, it just there's, there's more ways to think about it than just that, like, yeah, robots gonna, like grade my papers or like, sit by someone on their deathbed. Because I don't I don't know if like that. There's something about that, that makes me like, like cringe a little bit, even though that's like also what we're talking about as a potential for being like really cool. And   Zack Jackson 50:51 COVID, they've had to do that. And I there are hospitals that have set up these like, iPad robots that kind of look humanoid, but they have an iPad for a head, where you can connect to people that you know, and that you love. There's even some more advanced technology out there that will have a hand on it. And then another hand will be held by your loved one who's maybe in the waiting room. And then like the two cents each other cool and will squeeze cool other sad   Rachael Jackson 51:20 at the same time.   Ian Binns 51:23 But necessary during times like a pandemic,   Zack Jackson 51:26 right? Yeah. Right. But given a normal circumstance, no one would choose that. Right.   Rachael Jackson 51:31 Right. And, you know, what I, what I hear you suggesting Kendra, too, is perhaps that technology AI as it gets there, again, using them interchangeably, allows us to really understand what we want our lives to be, especially as Americans who have been trained and our culture of just high productivity, like unbelievably high productivity that our value is based in what we produce. And then our value as a citizen, or as a person is how much effort we put into our company. Right? Whatever that as a worker, that's where it last. And so if we have the ability to, to have our job being done by something else, rather than replacing our job, like finding something else, as in was suggesting to do with that time for a job to say, great, it's done. Now I have time to be me. I to actually say it's not. Yes, maybe the average is a 40 Hour Workweek. But I don't really know anybody that does that. I don't, I don't I don't know of any salaried, that's untrue. I know of one salaried employee who works for the government, frankly, and they're the only ones that I know that's a salaried employee that actually sticks to 40 hours. The only reason I'm using the term salaried is because the employer then has to pay per hour and usually they don't want to pay overtime. And so they're they're battling this like well, you then you just have to be extremely highly productive in your hour. So that's why I'm separating out the hourly versus a salary because the the employer in that case is not willing to pay the the overtime wages often read that this 40 Hour Workweek and this idea of downtime being not a good thing. Right. So   Ian Binns 53:35 you think about like, the genius time or whatever, that or whatever it was that Google had, right, isn't it, you know, they that they didn't Google Earth, like the idea for Google Earth and the development of Google Earth? What came from someone having that? Like, didn't they have it as their job like 20% of the people's time was meant for them to just focus on thinking, yeah,   Zack Jackson 54:01 whatever. Certainly the work on certain engineers job. Yeah, they give freedom to they have like little play rooms, basically. Yeah, with little things to mess around with. And they encourage people to do that. And, yeah, but that's just for the engineers that are making things.   Ian Binns 54:16 Yeah, yeah. So when I was thinking, so this is I like that you mentioned that Rachel was still part of the job. So I guess for clarification, if there was a way that there that AI can help make some of the tasks of my job easier, right for me to then go in directions with my job in life that I couldn't have even imagined as a teacher. I would take that. Or just I know there could be some negatives there. Potentially, that that could be coming. But I would choose to initially focus on what are the things I could gain. Like that would give me the time to not have to worry about oh well. So When I'm recording this podcast, there are other things on my mind that I'm like, oh, man, I gotta get back to that someday, right? I would have to worry about that stuff. Right, I would have that time. And the things. So what I think about like within academia, so when we started this, the podcast idea, and we started running with it, and now we're doing it. And it's been almost two years, and I wouldn't trade for anything. And I'm not I'm not ready to leave it. I love doing this stuff. Right? One of the thoughts that had to go through my mind was is how do I write this down to make sure that my supervisors all the way up the chain in academia value it? And then you think about, so when you get new leadership, and they see that I'm writing on these areas that may not be as high research productivity? What does that mean? I don't care, because it's doing what I love to do. Right. And I still get to do the other things too. But that just means that now I'm adding more to my plate, which is fine. But I'm always thinking about when it comes to like, teachers. So there are ways you know, in this field of education, that could make it so that we could do some of those other things that people love to do that somehow to resolve the time or because of just exhaustion. Right? Yeah. So yeah, I think those are the things I would try out and just backing on my give that a shot, if it doesn't work, doesn't work, I try something different. So I don't think I would lose connection with the students. If I had some of those other tests that were a little bit easier for me to do at least less time consuming. Right, so that because I would use that time to plan for more different types of experiences in the classroom. When I'm thinking about class stuff, here are some different things that could potentially do in my classroom. Now, let me now got time to really plan it out. Let me run with it. That's how I would want to approach it. And it's funny while saying that the AI on my wrist was telling me, you look like you need to breathe right now. I guess my heart rate was going up.   Zack Jackson 57:06 I should think we we should all breathe, right? Yes, I know.   Ian Binns 57:09 But it says even a minute of deep breathing can be helpful. It's almost like a meditation reminder to meditate.   Rachael Jackson 57:17 Right? A reminder to to be, and I think we're at the point and perhaps perhaps it's just my limited imagination. And perhaps it's my limited vertical ability. I can't really see AI as like really intelligence. Right? Just really, I think I'm stuck in technology, and what that's doing. But I think and I hope that we have the ability to create things where where we are allowed to be human beings, not human doings. And that can be the focus. So however, we can get there, using the value systems that we have in places individuals or to whichever society and culture we ascribe of which many of us have overlapping ones, right, Amir for me, you know, feminist, and Jewish, and American and all that stuff, right, like overlapping, but what are what are my values they're in? And how can I use this technology in the AI to allow me to be a human being not just a human doing, and in that way, sort of living up to this idea that I myself, so there was a Zionist named a had her arm, which actually he changed his name, and it translates to one people. That's what that translates to, I had her um, he was writing in the late, late 19th, early 20th century, and he was defining the difference between sacred and profane. And that which is profane, is a means to an end. And when you get to the end, the object itself loses its meaning. And the sacred is that which the object itself can be used in lots of different ways to achieve many different ends and is, is by itself, by its nature, holy. And for me, that's what I want for the human being, not just the human doing, not that I am here, to do something, to do a job to do this, that and the other but to be and there and that being using the AI to create an imbue holiness in the self in whatever job we're in, whether that's in religion, whether that's an academia or any myriad of other fields that we've sort of, we've sort of touched on and when we're able to then bridge AI and religion in those ways we can see ourselves as holy that's, that's, that's my sort of my hero range. Bow in the sky hope   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:00:02 that what you're saying, Rachel, about bridging those those things is reminding me of. And this sort of ties back to a conversation earlier about religion and AI and like the funerals of robots and stuff like that. There was a late 19th century anthropologist, Eb Tyler, if you study religion, you probably know him. There's lots of like, problematic issues, we could talk about them. But the what he was writing about at that time was about animism, and had this idea that animism is like the original religion, and that it was also like a central characteristic of what he called a quote unquote, primitive religions. And so that's where we can like talk about, like colonialism and all that stuff. But the the idea of what he's talking about is that there is like this development of religion where you start out as being animistic, which, if you don't know, animism is like, basically put life or seeing that there's life or like a soul in inanimate objects or in things besides humans. So thinking that the river has a spirit, and the trees and the rocks have spirits. And so this is what Tyler's talking about. But it's interesting to me, because I, I was thinking, you know, even though someone like Tyler, or, you know, other anthropologists and people who would say like, oh, only primitive religions have animism or this idea of like, life and soul and inanimate objects, or like having these childish attachments to things. What we know or like, what, you know, if you study religion is that has nothing to do with like, this like line of progress, where like, the more advanced modernized religions don't have attachments, or don't have these ideas of life and spirit in nature or other inanimate objects. And I think like the prime, like piece of evidence for that right now in this conversation is that, you know, we can really be looking at the most, like technologically advanced places, and we're talking about how we, like throw a funeral or some other kind of celebration for our robot friend, and that it's just like this human impulse to relate to the world around us. And there's nothing that's like primitive about that, whether whether it's like animism in the traditional sense, or what we're talking about now, where we're relating to things in this new way, as technology changes. You know, our best friends are going to be robots one day, and it just is like, so interesting to see how humans are continually coming up with ways to relate to the world around us. So that's what I was thinking.   Zack Jackson 1:03:19 Yeah, it's the final words of, of the opportunity rover that struck a chord around the world that yes, you know, the opportunity rover, went for 15 years on Mars, way longer than it was supposed to the little rover that could, and then one final dust storm covered the, as far as we know, covered it up. And, you know, it's just sending telemetry data back and you know, just the battery's dying and whatnot. And somebody on Twitter, wrote, The last message they received was basically, My battery is low, and it's getting dark. And that phrase, then, like, went around the world. my battery's low, and it's getting dark. I've seen that tattooed on people. I've seen so many t shirts and mugs and like that little rover with its little solar panels, just alone on this distant cold planet. my battery's low and it's getting dark. Then there was like this worldwide morning for this little little rover guy. That will one day I'm sure be in a museum and those words I hope will be inscribed on it. So that we know that like this is a human connection. This isn't just a religion thing. This is a human connection.   Rachael Jackson 1:04:39 All the fields right the rest in peace   Zack Jackson 1:04:44 rest in peace which bot whose final we will   Rachael Jackson 1:04:49 find we will find your   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:04:52 your word   Zack Jackson 1:04:53 and avenge them. No, no, no hitch bought wouldn't want it that way. hitch Potts, fine. No tweets By the way, were August 1 2015. Oh dear, my body was damaged. But I live on with all of my friends.   Rachael Jackson 1:05:09 Sometimes that was funnier to me.   Zack Jackson 1:05:12 Sometimes bad things happen to good robots and then little bit later posted a picture of itself with its with its creators and said my trip must come to an end for now but my love for humans will never fade. Thank you friends.   Kendra Holt-Moore 1:05:31 me getting love should fade. A little little buddy.   Zack Jackson 1:05:35 Oh, no hitch BOD is the best of us.   Ian Binns 1:05:41 Data Philly.   Zack Jackson 1:05:43 Well just wait a few years when hitch bought the white comes up and saves us all from the evil forces having battled the Balrog of Philadelphia   Rachael Jackson 1:05:57 to be controlled   Zack Jackson 1:05:58 to niche all right next time

La problématique de l’isolement chez les personnes âgées ne date pas d’hier on le sait, mais n’empêche que les derniers mois n’ont fait qu'aggraver cette situation. Un véritable marché se développe autour de robots qui ont comme principale fonction de les occuper, les  distraire, bref, de combattre leur isolement. Avec Alexandre Pépin et Charles Trahan. Une production QUB radio Janvier 2021   Pour de l’information concernant l’utilisation de vos données personnelles - https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener/fr

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Coronavirus has sparked a rise in creative, weird and wonderful inventions to help us adjust to the ‘new normal’. In this episode, we discuss an invention that was one of the 100 shortlisted ideas for the 6th edition of the Global Grad Show that’s taking place in the UAE. Aibo is a light that helps you stay connected and reach out for help from those around you in times of crisis. Inventor Alhaan Ahmed joins us to tell us more about the different colors of light that the lamp gives off and how they can allow us to communicate our needs to our neighbors. We also talk about how effective AIBO is in the age of social media and phone communication. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

Aibo está equipado con cámaras, sensores táctiles y de reconocimento de voz. De esta manera el perro robot reconoce a su dueño e interactúa con él. Los datos que genera se almacenan en la nube.

"Aibo" is outfitted with cameras, voice recognition, and motion sensors. These let the robo-pup recognize and react to its owner. Data generated by "Aibo" is kept in cloud storage.

"Aibo" ist mit Kameras, Stimmerkennungs- und Berührungssensoren ausgestattet. So kann der Roboterhund seinen Besitzer erkennen und auf ihn reagieren. Daten, die "Aibo" generiert, werden in Cloud-Speichern verarbeitet.

Privacy, Google & Fitbit; Older iPhones need update; House call medical @HealApp; @Sony aibo get new skills; 5G Coverage maps; Russia's new internet

Il y a encore quelques années, on n’en parlait que dans les films de science-fiction, avec d’ailleurs toutes les représentations possibles !Mais aujourd’hui les robots sont devenus une réalité, on les utilise dans de très nombreux domaines, et ils sont de plus en plus sophistiqués.Pour en parler avec moi : Nicolas Babin, qui a passé 15 ans chez Sony, et qui a commercialisé dans les années 90 Aibo, un chien robotisé déjà très élaboré pour son époque. Où en est-on aujourd’hui ? A quoi servent les robots ? En quoi peuvent-ils nous être utiles ? Et faut-il en avoir peur de leurs capacités physiques ou de leur degré d’intelligence ? Voici quelques éléments de réponse avec cet expert en nouvelles technologies. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

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Formerly titled, “Violent Visions & Death of a Robot,” in this week's episode, we discuss Norman, the psychopathic AI, as well as the story out of Japan where hundreds mourn over the death of their robot dog AIBO. Also, Elon Musk opens up jobs at SpaceX, and a FOX News anchor calls Trump and Kim Jong Un both as “Dictators.” Make sure to subscribe, share, and receive our extended reports HERE to get an extra episode of CCNT every week!  

This week, I take a look at a few transportation options on my trip to Tokyo, plus there’s drone news and pet news?! (The robot kind!) And of course, how did X-mas go? All this and more on this week’s episode of Zettai Geek Dayo! As always, if you have any comments, questions or topics you'd like me to cover, please tweet them at me @kayleedayo on Twitter with the hashtag #ZettaiGeekDayo so I can find them. PlatypusPodcasts.com @kayleedayo (English) @purplefuku (Japanese) @ZettaiGeekDayo Super Sentai Spirits Here's a YouTube Link to a full length-ish Super Sentai Spirits concert! (It's gotten a *lot* bigger & better since this was filmed!!) Birthday Song Official Website (Japanese) Yes, that is the company's name… In case you’re interested, they post info about Spirits & other concerts they do! Tech News in Japan Candy-carrying drone crashes into crowd, injuring six in Gifu NHK News: イベント中にドローン落下 ６人けが 岐阜 大垣 Video of the drone crash in Gifu Rakuten, Lawson begin product deliveries by drone in Fukushima Tsum Tsum Land (App Store Link) A Robotic Dog's Mortality Sony's new AIBO pet robot goes on sale tonight in Japan AIBO Official Site (Japanese) Main Stories docomo cycle Smart EX (English) Smart EX (Japanese) Spigen Case (Too Hard) ESR Case (Too Soft) Owltech’s STD Case (…just right?) See you next week!

完整文稿请关注周末微信，或登陆以下网址： http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/06/13/2582s831396.htm This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. When 9.4 million Chinese students took the college admission test or "gaokao", some stayed away. These students are in a pilot program to take independent entry exams for vocational schools. Currently, both applicants for ordinary universities and vocational schools take the same exam on June 7 and 8 every year. This year, almost half of the 7 million vacancies are at vocational schools. These institutions admit students from high schools who are graduates and offer two or three years of further vocational education. A number of vocational schools have been allowed to host their own entry exams, a pilot program to streamline vocational education. Experts say independent entry exams designed by the schools themselves allow them to recruit students who are interested in the courses and are talented in the field, not just those who simply score low in gaokao. Since the trial began in 2006, around 500 vocational schools, or 40 percent of the total, have joined the program. China's Ministry of Education is considering two kinds of national entry exams. The entry test for applicants who are interested in vocational education will include tests on academic knowledge and professional skills, while the entry exam for those interested in academic students will keep to the current setup. This is NEWS Plus Special English. A new report says that although progress has been made in the past year, China's environment, especially water, air and soil, still faces serious challenges. Environment officials have called for improvements to the legal system, a more environmentally friendly development outlook and better institutions to protect the worsening environment. The report says water quality is "not optimistic" and air quality in cities is "serious". Last year, around 9 percent of the water sections in China's top 10 river valleys were rated as level 5, the worst grade. As for air quality, only three of the 74 cities being monitored met the national standard for good air last year. The accumulation of air pollutants led to acid rain which affected more than 10 percent of the nation's arable land. The environmental protection ministry says that although conditions remain grim, the situation improved last year with more acknowledgement and focus on the problems brought about by decades of rapid growth. You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. A new cooing, gesturing humanoid on wheels that can decipher emotions has been unveiled in Japan. The robot has been developed by billionaire Masayoshi Son who says robots should be tender and make people smile. Son's mobile phone company Softbank says the robot, called Pepper, will go on sale in Japan in February next year for 198,000 yen, around 1,900 US dollars. Overseas sales are also under consideration. The machine has no legs, but has gently gesticulating hands. It appeared on a stage in a Tokyo suburb, cooing, humming, and touching hands with Son. Pepper has been programmed to read the emotions of people around it by recognizing expressions and voice tones. Cuddly robots are not new in Japan, a nation dominated by "kawaii," or cute culture, but no companion robot has emerged as a major market success yet. Electronics and entertainment company Sony discontinued the Aibo pet-dog robot in 2006, despite an outcry from its fans. At that time, Sony had developed a child-shaped entertainment robot similar to Pepper but much smaller. The robot was capable of dances and other charming moves, but never became a commercial product. Honda Motors has developed a walking talking Asimo robot, but that is too sophisticated and expensive for home use. It appears in Honda showrooms and gala events only. Even then, it is prone to glitches because of its complexity. Many other Japanese companies, including Hitachi and Toyota, as well as universities and startups, have developed various robots, large and small, which entertain and serve as companions. This is NEWS Plus Special English. A dragon fish with intricate, maze-like markings on every scale, a frog with rough, chocolate-colored skin and a ginger plant are among more than two dozen flora and fauna species found in Myanmar. The discoveries by global scientists in the last two years highlight the need to invest in conservation as the biologically diverse nation of 60 million revs up its economic engines and opens up to foreign investment. The World Wildlife Fund says Myanmar is already starting to succumb to many of the pressures felt by its neighbors in Southeast Asia, including deforestation and illegal wildlife trading, as well as mining and the development of hydropower. The 26 plants and animals newly identified in Myanmar include a species of dragon fish, hugely popular in the Asian aquatic world. The so-called "scribbled arowana," is creating a buzz on the aquarium fish blogosphere because of its unheard-of complex, maze-like markings on every individual scale. Previously unidentified by scientists, a ginger plant collected from a single region in the cloud forests had been hiding in plain sight at local markets; and a chocolate-spotted frog was discovered in a mountain range that stretches along Myanmar's western border with India.