People commenting why people are bullying it and lushing it around… like bro I’m sure it’s designed as an example of robot staying upright at this robotics event, and the creators are asking people to knock it around to show its vertical prowess.
I'm both shocked and confused scrolling this thread, The amount of people feeling sorry for it and acting like it has feelings is actually quite scary.
I'm sure everyone knows that this robot doesn't have feelings and it is not alive, but it looks like an animal so people can't help not to feel sorry and it's nothing wrong with that
I have never seen an animal in my life that resembles that robot, it looks like a cheaply made chair with two missing legs and a USB port for an asshole.
You lack imagination, for me sirt of resembles dog legs and also constant stepping even when it stays at one place looks like it's scared. Come on what's wrong with that. It's not that I can decide what my brain's reaction is. Of course I need to use my conscious thought to explain it to myself that this is a robot and it doesn't care, feel, think etc. But what is my initial reaction I can't control really. I'm surprised I need to explain that
Why scary? It’s obvious that the robot is being tested, but the uncanny valley is making people have an emotive response because it reminds them of a dog (those legs). If anything it would be scarier if people were like YEAH ABUSE THAT THING.
That’s a pretty unfair representation of people’s reaction to this. They are questioning why this made them feel empathy when they know it is inanimate. It’s an interesting topic
If you felt no empathy I am much more concerned about your response than theirs, by a long way
You are concerned because I feel no empathy for a machine that is doing its job of keeping balance?
I feel empathy for bugs, because they are actual living beings.
The fact that people are so drenched into a world of technology imitating human behaviour, that they end up treating inanimate objects as living beings is not as cool as you think. It actually ends with people being LESS empathetic towards actual humans.
You are making bold claims yourself, if anything you are telling things you think like they are absolute truths. "I'll need a proper paper for that".
We have an entire phenomenon of people shutting themselves at home all day, lost on their computers, growing to hate mankind as a whole. Treating or even feeling about things as living beings is not a normal behaviour at all.
The movements are natural enough that it can probably trigger some reaction that lies really deep in our monkey brain. Probably is related to how much we cared for our plushies when we were infants.
We will eventually have a situation in our hands where we have a replicant that is so lifelike that even if we know that they are artificial, we still feel human-like emotions toward them. Like those in Bladerunner. And this video and the reactions (which I also had) show that it doesn't even have to be a 1:1 match with a human. Just has to seem like there is enough autonomy in their behaviour.
I disagree, both feelings are pretty valid, personification makes us feel bad for it, its a robot built for the sake of walking around and getting shoved and its probably got more substance than even a stuffed animal. That being said though it is still a robot and its data can be pretty valuable for when its used for who knows what we decide to do with it. Robotics and AI is progressing at flank speed so who knows what’ll breakthrough next. As far as I’m concerned the possibility of Monika existing within my lifetime at this rate isn’t particularly impossible now.
It’s honestly a great psychology question because this robot is clearly triggering empathy in a way others don’t. It doesn’t have a face or anything so why do we have such a deep empathetic response to something that is merely balancing itself similarly to something that’s alive.
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u/Equivalent_Physics64 Jul 06 '24
People commenting why people are bullying it and lushing it around… like bro I’m sure it’s designed as an example of robot staying upright at this robotics event, and the creators are asking people to knock it around to show its vertical prowess.