[4eyes] social responses and intelligent machines

[Saiph Savage]

NPR covered this last week, I think it's fascinating to think about how our
social responses change with different types of intelligent machines.


*"The robots intelligence had a strong effect on the users’ hesitation to
switch it off, in particular if the robot acted agreeable. Participants
hesitated almost three times as long to switch off an intelligent and
agreeable robot (34.5 seconds) compared to an unintelligent and non
agreeable robot (11.8 seconds). ...Switching off a robot can only be
considered a negative event if the robot is to some degree alive. If a
robot would not be perceived as being alive then switching it off would not
matter.*"

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/good-news-humans-have-trouble-killing-robots

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Saiph Savage
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