Flirting With Humanity.

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  • Source:
    New Republic, Jun2016, Vol. 247 Issue 6, p18, 10p, 3 Color Photographs
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ARTIFICIAL intelligence; MACHINE theory; HUMANOID robots; ROBOTS; HANSON Robotics Inc.
    • Subject Terms:
      Science & Technology
    • Author(s):
      WEIGEL, MOIRA
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the efforts by several researchers and scientists to build an artificial intelligence that has the ability to generate feelings like love. Topics covered include the expressive capabilities of the android robot created by Hanson Robotics using the elastic compound Frubber, the CyberLover bots from PC Tools that could perform automated conversations according to various personality profiles like romantic lover, and Google's effort to build artificial neural networks.