Facebook as Turing Test

Wednesday, May 6. 2009

Facebook as Turing Test

A Robot will have its own page on Facebook, notes the BBC:

While robots that can engage people have been produced before now, research suggests that humans lose interest at most a few weeks after being introduced as the behavioural repertoire of the machine is exhausted.

In a paper on the pre-print website Archive.org server, the researchers say they want to find out if this can be thwarted by giving humans and robots a pool of shared memories and if they are part of the same social circle of friends.

The platform for exploring the problem is a robot that can recognise faces created by Dr Mavridis and colleagues from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates plus co-workers in Germany and Greece

The prototype is based around a PeopleBot machine from ActivRobots to which they have added a range finder, touch screen and stereo camera. The current prototype is called "Sarah" but when the project begins this will be swapped for a machine with the face of Arabic scholar Ibn Sina aka Avicenna.

Interesting, and well worth watching as an evolution of the interface between humans and the Internet of Things.

Never work on Twitter of course, as robots can't twt about what they had for lunch

Posted by Alan Patrick in Robotics at 09:49 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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