One day we'll say "They're Gr-r-reat!" One day we might not be able to distinguish them from people - much like computer renderings and photographs. Robots are indeed in their infancy, but just give them time. No tiger was harmed in the making of the movie because the tiger was computer-generated. But just look at visually striking movies, such as Life of Pi, today. Back in the early days had anyone asked him, or anyone else for that matter, if we'd ever see computer graphics that were so good that one could not distinguish them from a photograph, the answers would not have been split 50-50, but 100% no. Dr. Greenberg is a professor at Cornell University and pioneer in computer graphics. Whoa! In the Design Night example, people believed the mechanical dog had feelings because it acted like a dog even though it was the equivalent of a blender or toaster.Īt the start of the Design Night, Adviser to the CEO/CTO, Jonathan Knowles, introduced the panelists and also recognized Dr. Don Greenberg who was in the audience. People will see physical characteristics that they associate with human emotions and believe that the sender has these emotions when in fact it is they who are projecting the emotions on to the sender. They say communication is defined by the receiver, not the sender. After a short while, we gave them a bat and asked them to destroy the dog. Respondent: I think I would feel the same. Panelist: How would you feel if someone took a baseball bat to your robot? Respondent: I would not like it, but not so bad. Panelist: How would you feel if someone took a baseball bat to your refrigerator? In the same way Pi believed that animals have souls from what he perceived in the tiger's eyes, people will project emotions on to robots.Īs was presented on Design Night, researchers discussed the following: They will make smiles or frowns with fake lips, have wide-open or droopy mechanical eyes, and perhaps even tears. Robots will mimic physical characteristics that we humans will interpret as emotions. Sanosh Patel: When you look into his eyes, you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you.Īnd there it is - why robots will one day have emotions. Sanosh Patel: You think tiger is your friend. In my opinion, it contained a related conversation between a father, Sanosh, and his young son, Pi, who almost lost an arm while attempting to feed a tiger by hand: Last night I watched the movie, Life of Pi, via Netflix. The audience was split about 50-50 in terms of answering yes and no. When I attended Design Night on robotics, there was a discussion as to whether or not robots would ever have emotions.
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