This lifelike robot landed at the bottom of the valley of Terror.

To tell the truth, the scene to see Ishiguro with the black dress of the beautiful dialogue, I only feel a chill behind.

The Gmic conference invited three Japanese robotics experts, the first appearance is Ishiguro, his expertise is to do looks like a few of the robot, the scene shows the beauty of the robot, the distance is indeed more than many real girls are beautiful, gentle sitting there, but also in the back of the real person under the remote control, answer the Ishiguro question, The head is a little stiff, but it's not like a robot. According to Ishiguro, she also has a look, can stare at the speaker, the video also shows.

This lifelike robot, happened to fall in the Valley of Terror,

The Horror Valley theory (the uncanny valley) is a hypothesis about human feelings about robots and Non-human objects. Since robots and humans are quite similar in appearance and motion, humans also have a positive emotional impact on robots, and their reactions suddenly become extremely objectionable at a certain level. Even if the robot and humans have a little bit of difference, will appear very conspicuous harsh, so that the whole robot appears very stiff terror, people have to face the feeling of walking dead. However, when the appearance and movement of the robot and the similarity of human beings continue to rise, the emotional response of human beings will return to the positive, close to the human and human empathy.

Such a good woman, smile is very real, open mouth is familiar machine sound, I can not adapt.

But its creator, Ishiguro, doesn't think so. In his vision, this humanoid robot can do a lot more, for example, someone like him who needs the world to run a speech, can do a copy robot, he stays in Japan, remote control this robot in the world to share on the line;

I said: "I still can not imagine the various robots in life scene, so really good?" ”

Ishiguro said: "Actually nothing, we are talking now, but do you really mind if I am a real person or a robot?" ”

I think, really do not mind, just ordinary friends, talk about days, lifelike remote puppet robot is no problem. But for someone close, like a wife and kids, I still can't accept it.

Speaking of wife and children, Ishiguro also has some research, he made a only fuzzy humanoid robot, instead of children around the elders, the elderly can communicate with their children through these robots, said the effect is very good. Ishiguro said, compared to the smooth screen, the elderly prefer to hold a physical robot to communicate. In this intimate interaction, people are more to use their own imagination, to the brain to fill out the person they really care about the appearance.

Ishiguro has a further plan, he wants to be a villain like mobile phone, is still in the initial stage. He thinks the existing mobile phone is square, but what humans prefer is actually interacting with the "human cell phone." In this regard, I accept that I cannot.

I am a robot layman, but these two days to touch down, found that the Japanese robot culture has such a characteristic, that they are more attention to the shape of the robot than its core. Their robots are more like the human body that extracts the soul, which is basically consistent with the person's appearance, but the thought behind it is controlled by the master. To them, a robot is more like a body than another, rather than a unit that can perform tasks independently.

Then look at Google as the representative of the western robots, they are a typical function before the form, as long as you can stabilize the wounded from the battlefield to bring me back, I care you look like a pangolin or a buffalo. For example, the sweep of the floor, the West may be a cylinder, rolling on the ground to be done, Japan may be a humanoid robot, perhaps with a broom to sweep.

The above two paragraphs are a bit of a myth. But this time with Ishiguro chat, but let me reflect on the "intelligent" understanding. The traditional artificial intelligence is to pass the Turing Test, but the Ishiguro robot can also pass under the person's control, does he have intelligence? And what do we mean by intelligence? Paramecium and smart phones, who is smarter?