Embodied, Inc. produced a nice AI use case: a pet “social robot” called Moxie to entertain and teach children with social difficulties. It specifically marketed the $799 gadget as a “Robot for Auti…
This article someone posted the other day was on a similar topic except it explored (via anecdotes from interviews— long-form journalism style) companion chatbots for adults and how various companies going under or changing their tech/goals was impacting the people using the software.
Super interesting how quickly people anthropomorphize them— though the fact that people get sad when you name a pencil then snap it in half seems consistent with this behavior.
This article someone posted the other day was on a similar topic except it explored (via anecdotes from interviews— long-form journalism style) companion chatbots for adults and how various companies going under or changing their tech/goals was impacting the people using the software.
Super interesting how quickly people anthropomorphize them— though the fact that people get sad when you name a pencil then snap it in half seems consistent with this behavior.