Posted on 03/17/2016 3:49:07 PM PDT by aimhigh
Dr. David Hanson leads the engineers and designers that created Sophia, the team's most advanced android to date.
Sophia's lifelike skin is made from patented silicon and she can emulate more than 62 facial expressions. Cameras inside her "eyes," combined with computer algorithms, enable her to "see," follow faces and appear to make eye contact and recognize individuals.
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I could probably fall in love with a tree.
“Actually, I disliked her right off. Took me a while to figure out why. Then it hit me. “Sophia” looks like a younger Hillary.”
Yeah, they should name her Asophie - not wise
Fall for her? I already did, once. Take away the life-like skin, and you have my first wife.
Is there any truth to stories that these female robots are like human females in every possible way you can imagine??? I know it sounds unbelievable but I’ve heard some have developed robots which have realistic feeling body parts which real women have. If they mass produce these will dating habits change?????
These folks have clearly not heard of the Uncanny Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Pretty creepy, but androids do appear to be a near certainty in our not-too-distant future.
Brave new world, eh?
I prefer person with all their flaws.
Well...if she will do the dishes and sit through a theatre movie with me that’s a start. ;-)
Isn’t sex with an inanimate object just another form of masturbation?
Japan’s lonely hearts turn to dolls for sex, company
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-sex-dolls-idUSSP10422420070718
I had exactly the same reaction -— Its the Witch!
Do you think that if the guy who made this awful thing can fix the voice to sound a little more lifelike and screechy?
Take a tree to bed with you tonight -— you never know what romance might blossom ...
Her facial expressions changed so frequently and so abruptly, I was put off by it. Not very natural. But, they are getting close.
I think computers and cell phones have already greatly altered traditional dating - if feminism hadn’t almost destroyed it before.
-JT
Will they be programmed to say things like:
“You’re ... on ... my ... hair.”
Cherry 2000
My wife and I saw the movie “A.I.” recently— her first time.
(We are childless, medically speaking. Adoption is a costly luxury — as much as a decent used car, which would take priority if we had that degree of resources.)
At one point — early on, not even one of the several cripted tear-jerk moments — she burst into tear and clung to me, saying “If only it was true!”
Holding her, tears in my own eyes, I silently agreed.
Call us weird. We already know *that* is true.
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