AI – Human Robot Interaction

Puffery, Bullshit and Lies

Robots and AI are being portrayed in overly optimistic videos, television shows and advertisements. Tesla’s Optimus robot is a prime example. In this episode Dwain Allan and Christoph Bartneck interview John Petrocelli and Nick Lee on how this puffery, bullshit and lies affect consumers and vulnerable people. Such as Suzanne Barron, who believes that robots are possessed by Satan.

Transcript

The transcript of the episode is available as a PDF. You can also follow the episode with subtitles through Descript.

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Suzanne Barron
Helplines & Support
Your Cousin From Boston Dynamics Samuel Adams Super Bowl ad
Elon Musk unveils plan for ‘Tesla Bot’ with man dancing in a bodysuit
Tesla Optimus Robot Can Fold A Shirt
Still Not Significant
Clarity Communications by John Leaver who operates Digital Engine
Music: Remembering Past Everything by P C III is licensed under an Attribution License.

After the hype: what can AI really do for human-robot interaction?

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Artificial Intelligence promise to improve many aspects of our lives. The current hype, in particular around Large Language Model, raises the questions what of these bold visions of the future is science and what is fiction. AI is not new in HRI. For many decades researchers used it to enable robots to better interact with humans. In this episode I talked with Julie Adams and David Kaber about what AI can really do for HRI.

Transcript

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Zombies

Can robots be conscious?

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Are robots zombies? This might seem like a strange question at first, but it leads to one of the most important questions in science today: what is consciousness and can robot’s become conscious? These questions fascinate many people. And when Blake Lemoine suggested that Google’s latest AI Lambda had become sentient, it triggered a worldwide media frenzy. In this HRI podcast episode, I talk with Professor Jack Copeland about machine consciousness.

Transcript

The transcript of the episode is available as a PDF. You can also follow the episode with subtitles through Descript.

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Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction by Jack Copeland

Ethics in Robotics And AI

Download our new book.

Our new book entitled An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI is now available under the Open Access policy of Springer. You can download the PDF directly or flip through the pages below.

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Artificial Artificial Intelligence

Did Zach pass the Turing test?

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Alan Turing devised the Imitation Game as a test the intelligence of machines. This test is also used in human-robot interaction. But what happens if not a computer is trying to convince you that it is a human, but a human is trying to deceive you in thinking he is an artificial intelligence? In this episode we will discuss the Turing Test, the Zach super computer and what it means to think. I interviewed Diane Proudfoot and David Farrier about the Terrible Foundation, Turing Test and Artificial Intelligence.

The transcript of the episode is available as a PDF. You can also follow the episode with subtitles through Descript.

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