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Can you spot the android?
Dec. 29th, 2006 04:02 pmOne of the two women in the picture below is human. The other is an android (a robot designed to look like a human) who, according to the article below, can "carry on a conversation" although I'm guessing it's probably not that enlightening of a conversation yet :)
[Poll #897354]
This is from the following article... click on it to see the answer, but not until you guess... no peeking!
Real Robots: Researchers Move Ever Closer to Making Mechanical Versions of Us
"The computational and software capabilities (of robots) are going to be beyond human capability by 2025," Hanson predicts. Robots now may be idiot savants, but "20 years from now, they're going to be a very effective member of the human family."
Bear in mind, David Hanson may just be saying this to sell more androids. Nobody really knows whether we'll have smarter than human robots by then. I still think my estimate of about 35 years is more realistic, even though I do not design robots for a living like him.
[Poll #897354]
This is from the following article... click on it to see the answer, but not until you guess... no peeking!
Real Robots: Researchers Move Ever Closer to Making Mechanical Versions of Us
"The computational and software capabilities (of robots) are going to be beyond human capability by 2025," Hanson predicts. Robots now may be idiot savants, but "20 years from now, they're going to be a very effective member of the human family."
Bear in mind, David Hanson may just be saying this to sell more androids. Nobody really knows whether we'll have smarter than human robots by then. I still think my estimate of about 35 years is more realistic, even though I do not design robots for a living like him.
