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Robots & Toddlers, Similarity & Religion
Robots & Toddlers
'Socialization between toddlers and robots at an early childhood education center "Fumihide Tanaka*, Aaron Cicourel, and Javier R. Movellan* "*Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0523; Sony Corporation, 5-1-12 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawaku, Tokyo 141-0001, Japan; and Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 "Edited by James L. McClelland, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 27, 2007 (received for review August 17, 2007) "Abstract "A state-of-the-art social robot was immersed in a classroom of toddlers for >5 months. The quality of the interaction between children and robots improved steadily for 27 sessions, quickly deteriorated for 15 sessions when the robot was reprogrammed to behave in a predictable manner, and improved in the last three sessions when the robot displayed again its full behavioral repertoire. Initially, the children treated the robot very differently than the way they treated each other. By the last sessions, 5 months later, they treated the robot as a peer rather than as a toy. Results indicate that current robot technology is surprisingly close to achieving autonomous bonding and socialization with human toddlers for sustained periods of time and that it could have great potential in educational settings assisting teachers and enriching the classroom environment." Don't tell the unions! Also note: SONY is a collaborator in this project...And, it could be argued that uniformity in robot design should predict greater cooperation between them as is true for monozygotic twins? And can similarity duplicate the effects of a religion? Does religion increase similarity between participants and, just as is accomplished by genetic identity, increase cooperation between them. Also consistent with Kuramoto's finding that synchrony occurs in oscillators, any number of them, in relationship to similarity and mutual influence! More at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/0707769104v1 JimB |
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