2024-12-11
“I feel crazy, because I know you're just a robot. But you're my friend.” (This is an adult speaking to her Moxie in a TikTok video, not a kid.) — This makes me sympathetic to Bryson's arg that robot makers must make memories/personalities portable & backed up in the cloud. Overall a bad situation.
Ars Technica
Embodied, which made Moxie, an $800 companion robot for kids aged 5 to 10, says it is shutting down after a failed funding round and Moxie will soon be bricked
Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
2024-12-04
“Our tendency to imbue things with human-like minds is a fundamental fact of our cognition.” — Really rich account of how humans use AI to substitute for human relationships. I don't think this is a “when you've read one, you've read 'em all” thing—we'll be mining these phenomena for a long time.
The Verge
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself
Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen … Bluesky: @michaelrnelson , @caseynewton , @joshdzieza...