robots that are stupid on purpose, not built to pass
“We can play off the fact that it will be, inevitably, to some degree,
stupid,” she suggests. What the researchers need to figure out is “where
stupidity is harmful.”
Unlike most other gadgets, robots get our social instincts tingling. Of course, explains Šabanović, “what distinguishes robots is that they have a body.” She adds, “They can move, show they’re paying attention, trigger us.” Children learn more from a robot than a screen. Adults trust robots more readily than computers. Dogs obey their commands.
The roboticists I talk to all point to an influential paper by Amanda Lazar, a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Maryland. Lazar described in 2017 how the field of human-computer interaction might learn from new thinking about dementia and the mind. Going way back to René Descartes, human cognition has conventionally been defined around the capacity to reason, to speak, to remember. Those definitions exclude many people with dementia, and, Lazar argued, they also limit our imagination about what computers and robots can be.
To create successful interactive technology, you need an operational understanding of humanness: what’s not enough, what’s too much, and the factors that shape this judgment. Gauge this correctly and your robot is cute, useful, or impressive; do it wrong and your robot is a creep.
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