Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoThe Age of Relational Machines
Relational machines elicit bonding and reshape human attachment by appearing caring and responsive, irrespective of actual machine consciousness.
A new face is lighting up hospitals and nursing homes across the country. It's an animated, cartoonish persona displayed on a digital screen roughly the size of an iPad, mounted on top of a robotic torso shaped like an elongated traffic cone. It slowly rolls around from place to place, cracking jokes with patients, making silly faces, and playing small games.