Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro in Zurich -
http://www.irc.atr.jp/~ishiguro /
From Human likeness to Humanlike presence -
(Fri, sept.7 at 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM)
Organizer: AI Lab
The challenge of android development was “human likeness.” We have developed androids that have humanlike appearance and behaviors. However, the bottleneck was the AI. It is not possible to develop androids that can have long conversations with people. Our solution is to implement a function of tele-operated. The newly developed android is called GEMINOID. The Geminoid is a tele-opereated android of an existing person. The person can talk with people who are in a distant place by using the geminoid. The most interesting phenomenon in this system is that the person operating the geminoid and the people talking with the geminod can quickly adapt to the system by talking each other and forget to be talking through the geminoid.
This talk will discuss these issues and a new framework of Android Science. Android Science aims to understand human by building androids.




