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I am in two views about this. On the one hand, I'm happy because it's not meant to DO anything in particular apart from be a kind of pet - that was the one sticking point I had with the dear departed Aibo, I didn't WANT it to answer the telephone and write a weblog of daily news and play music and crap, I just wanted it to be a dog, just... a robot one.
On the other hand, I anticipate it being as annoying and please-let-me-drop-kick-it-across-the-room as a Furby. :P (Although so long as it doesn't speak furblish it'll be less bad).
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I am in two views about this. On the one hand, I'm happy because it's not meant to DO anything in particular apart from be a kind of pet - that was the one sticking point I had with the dear departed Aibo, I didn't WANT it to answer the telephone and write a weblog of daily news and play music and crap, I just wanted it to be a dog, just... a robot one.
On the other hand, I anticipate it being as annoying and please-let-me-drop-kick-it-across-the-room as a Furby. :P (Although so long as it doesn't speak furblish it'll be less bad).
More here (provided the link works. :P
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Date: 13 May 2006 06:36 am (UTC)A rather limited intrepretation of the term, then. If we're defining it as "able to interact with it's enviroment on it's own", then, perhaps. But I'm seeing this mostly as a marketing ploy. Just because it can analyze the surrounding world a little hardly makes it sentient.
If someone mistreats one of these things, will the RSPCA intervine?
Are we going to see campaigns for the rights and protection of Pleos everywhere?
Probably not.
Eh. I guess it's still a step in a new direction. Or an old. Either way.
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Date: 13 May 2006 09:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm strongly dubious of the "sentient" bit - it'll not even be smarter than the average bug, I'd guess. And "designer life form" brings to mind visions of designer babies. :P But if they're at least trying to accomplish robotic intelligence we're making steps in the right way. :)