Tag Archives: Robots
Machines that know how you feel
A recent study in machine learning reported a high degree of accuracy in machines understanding the character and intentions of humans. Mario Rojas and colleagues at Barcelona University together with researchers at the Department of Psychology at Princeton University developed … Continue reading
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Narratives of the future
Prophecy is a crucial informant in the development of western ideologies. Although ritualistic foretelling is found in many cultures it is in the West that foretelling was historically institutionalized, for instance in the Oracle of Delphi or the Prophets of … Continue reading
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The “uncanny valley”
There is a feeling we humans get when confronted with human-like artifacts. The more human-like the artifact the more we tend to like it. Think dolls or mechanical robots. But when these artifacts start to look much more like human … Continue reading
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