Thursday, April 03, 2003
"The Penrose house robot has a module that observes and reasons about
the mental state of its master (advertising slogan: "Our Robots Care!").
For reasons best known to its manufacturer, this particular model registers
trouble whenever the psychology module infers that the master does not
believe the robot is conscious. One slow day the reflective process stirs,
and notes a major trouble report of this kind. It runs the human interaction
problem solver to find an ameliorating strategy. This produces a plan to
initiate a pleading conversation with Roger, with nonverbal cues. So the
robot trundles up, stares with its big brown eyes, cocks its head, and
begins to speak..."
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