April 21, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
Abby Huntsman, Alex Reben, amazon, Bianca Bosker on Tech, boxie, business, Clifford Nass, Computer Science, David Hanson, different dogs, entertainment, Future, gadgets, gaming, Hotels, huffingtonpost, huffpost live, human invention, Human Robot Interaction, Interface Design, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, reben, research, Robot Love, Robot Sex, Robotics, Robots People, Science, Science News, Talk Nerdy To Me, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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If a squat, cardboard-framed robot with a high-pitched voice started asking you questions, would you answer it? Would you share your troubles? Unload your concerns?
Many people would — at least, that’s what roboticist and artist Alex Reben has found. He unleashed the smiling bot Boxie in the halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to see what people would share with a robot. His work and other research suggest we’re not so averse to bearing our souls to the bots. In some cases, we’ll even tell them things we wouldn’t admit to each other.
In fact, Reben suggests robots and dogs aren’t so different.
“Dogs are basically a human invention. They’re a technology,” Reben told HuffPost Live. “We’ve bred them to be companions over millennia, just like we’re designing robots, we’ve designed dogs to be companions.”
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January 14, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Music, Bianca Bosker on Tech, business, celebrities, computer composer, entertainment, Francisco Vico, huffingtonpost, Iamus, Iamus Computer Composer, london symphony orchestra, Melomics, Melomics Iamus, Melomics Media, music, Music By Machines, Music Machine, rare musicians, research, Science, Science News, Spain’s University of Malaga, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Iamus is one of those rare musicians who’s attained global stardom without the outsized ego or sense of entitlement that often goes hand-in-hand with fame.
Iamus is also one of those rare musicians who is an algorithm.
The computer-composer, created by a research team led by Francisco Vico at Spain’s University of Malaga, has released an album, composed symphonies performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and “written” over 1 billion songs in every genre imaginable. (Vico says rock and funk were among the most difficult styles for Iamus to master).
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