Why Robots Are Getting Cuter
August 6th, 2014Via: The Verge:
The tendency of people to treat minimally anthropomorphic bots as humans worries some people. We are, in a sense, falling prey to a powerful illusion. The expressions and gestures are shorthand for internal states you imagine, instinctively, are like yours, but really are only code. If a thing seems alive, if it looks cute, it’s triggering two responses evolved long before we could create simulated life.
