Drones, robots, Cyborgs intelligent machines

you're still supposed to tip them.

The restaurant will still employ a small team of human employees

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meet-charles-mind-reading-robot-12249320

Happy, sad, confused or bored - researchers at Cambridge University have built Charles to mimic all human expressions as part of a ground-breaking project

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So are empathic robots coming? New advances in computer technology are likely to continue to surprise us. However, true empathy assumes a significant overlap in experience between the subject of the empathy and the empathiser.

To put the shoe on the other foot, there is evidence that humans smile more when faced with a smiling avatar and feel distress when robots are mis-treated, but are these reponses empathic? Do they indicate humans understand and share the robot’s internal world?

The world of AI is changing rapidly, and robots like Pepper are both intriguing and potentially endearing. It is difficult to predict where advances like Pepper will lead us in the near future.

It may be, for example, that “near enough is good enough” when it comes to everyday empathy between human and machine. On the other hand, we are still a long way from fully understanding the complexities of how human empathy operates, so are still far from being able to simulate it in the machines we live with.

MurielB a écrit:

Feeling it

...New advances in computer technology are likely to continue to surprise us...

we just have to wait
http://theconversation.com/read-my-lips-truly-empathic-robots-will-be-a-long-time-coming-47266

MurielB a écrit:Sorry Gerard from had unfortunately disappeared !

Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed origami-inspired muscles that strengthen soft robots, enabling them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using air or water pressure.

Are We Ready To Get Emotional With AI? 

Robots with a heart and soul have been the stuff of science fiction for years, but as artificial intelligence (AI) and software robots become a part of our daily lives, the lines between science fiction and reality are beginning to blur.
Yet, as we interact with virtual assistants or speak to call center chatbots we understand the limitations of today’s AI.
AI can sift through lots of data to tell you George Washington’s date of birth or the status of your last mortgage payment, but when it comes to sensing how you feel, progress is still being made. As AI becomes increasingly smarter, it is beginning to move on from the bare facts to identifying subtle nuances in emotions, speech and expressions.
Also known as "affective computing," it’s really nothing new; it dates back to 1995, when MIT Media lab professor Rosalind Picard published the book “Affective Computing,” which explores the development of systems and devices that recognize, interpret, process and simulate human affects. But why the sudden interest in emotion AI?



As we get more comfortable with AI, we’re seeing all kinds of new possibilities. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2022, personal devices will know more about an individual's emotional state than his or her own family. Once emotion AI truly takes the hold, the possibilities are endless. Consider the following scenarios:
• In health care, it will be able to spot mental and physical ailments in patients based on how they look or sound.
• In customer service, it can flag customers that are getting annoyed and elevate the conversation to a human

• In marketing, it can determine consumers’ reactions to television commercials to determine their effectiveness.
• In insurance, it can be used to detect when a customer is not telling the truth or submitting a false claim.