Considering that robot-like machinery has already been incorporated into our everyday lives, including customer service online or checkout assistants. One of the last assistants we would need in our everyday life are home assistants to help us focused on other important things. The question is, what other things do we consider important enough to spend our time on. Society portrays humans as being less and less creative and more stressed day to day. Due to the focus on daily jobs and financial issues being on the top of our priorities it doesn’t allow for time spend on a more creative aspect of life. Reflection and meditation on life is lost due to lack of time, and in extreme cases even communication as a whole, diminishes person to person.
Rhett’s argument is that it is more important for college students should be taught how to be philosopher and more human. In other words stating, we as humans should focused on being creative vs just living to survive day to day. Basing our everyday activities on survival at our jobs which leads to survival in food access and overall life sustainability; as we presently live. As mentioned in the article, by having Humanoid AI preform activities we don’t want to preform such as laundry we can then focus on something like reading or poetry or gardening. This leads back to the assistance purpose for a humanoid robot. By being able to have humanoid robots do these things for us we can then just focus on doing meaning full work through life. Such as creating meaningful startups that will help us protect the earth we live in. Though it may seem far fetched when put into perspective having human teachers should teach about things that are considered soul food. Our generations will focus on doing meaningful work with their lives. I agree with this article and think it ties into having robots aid children with autism. This is because the more the children are taught to coup with their disability the more they are likely to be interactive in society. Theorizing that these children will then have the necessary skills to be productive in society, through interaction with those around them. Eventually allowing them to enjoy life to a greater extent. Allowing them to be happier and hopefully want to share that happiness and positivity back into the world or those around them. And to start this transition it can be that these humanoid robots aiding the children with autism will be a key to understand what we as humans need help in everyday life. -Rhett Allain. January 7, 2015 8:15am. “The Robotification of Society is Coming”. Web. https://www.wired.com/2015/01/robotification-society-coming/
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The article above is a full case study of the Kasper humanoid project/test/experiment. It explains everything from start to finish on a case of 8 students from before, to during, and after, a 7 session test with the Kasper robotic. There are explanations about every hypothesis and about every ethical decision considered before the test/experiment was done. Like: “Can the robot elicit increased interaction levels between the child and the other person in the experiment? Can the robot elicit the ability of acquiring knowledge about human body parts? Can the robot help teach children with ASC appropriate physical (tactile) social engagement?”. After reading this article it gave me an idea of what questions I should be asking, regarding the outcome of the experiment.
Which would be me questioning the AI within the robotic and its advancement compared to what is necessary for the child to learn. Verses how much of the experiment is being used to simply improve the learning skills within the AI. It is no secret there is a race to discover and create a AI that resembles a conscious. It is the great syfy race associated with technology. Recently it has been concluded that analyzing how children learn may be the key to creating an algorithm to allow humanoids to learn the same way humans do. And this allowing humanoids to resemble humans almost exactly. Through these experiments with Humanoid Robots I have noticed the pattern of teaching attempting to teach a child to learn, while at the same time learning how a child learns. Therefore, I conclude this research could lead to the discovery of a subconscious like state for a robot. Where a robot would be able to learn, predict and execute to its best understanding based on the situation, and doing so within the norms of society and the boundaries of right from wrong. -Costa, S., Lehmann, H., Dautenhahn, K. et al. Int J of Soc Robotics (2015) 7: 265. doi:10.1007/s12369-014-0250-2 Curtis explains how the same technique of using a robotic humanoid to help treat kids with autism is also being put in place in the UK. Their research is with the Kasper robot, who comes fully equipped with sensors from its waist up. This is meant to let a child know he is treating Kasper. This robot is being tested to aid children with the last level of autism being just Autistic Disorder. This type of autism is supposed to cause the human, in this case child, to be less aware of their own person, and of their body. Meaning they are not careful of their surroundings and those around them. To help improve the child’s awareness themselves and teach behavioral skills, Kasper was created to recognize how it’s being treated based on how its tactical sensors are read.
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Laura Garcia19 Year old, studying Communication & Design student at CSUMB. Archives
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