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Inventor Builds Robot WifeComments:468
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samzenpus
on Thursday December 11, @02:37AM
from the you-lonely-lonely-man dept.
from the you-lonely-lonely-man dept.
Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
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I forget the movie or documentary (Score:5, Funny)
But it starts with the premise that dumb people breed... a LOT. While the smart people, well, this here is one extreme.
Giving us the resulting societies we are in.
Re:I forget the movie or documentary (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I forget the movie or documentary (Score:5, Funny)
Two responses: (Score:5, Funny)
...even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
1) Nope, not convincing
2) So it faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife? Except that it has an off switch*...
* /me is going to hell for that one
Re:Two responses: (Score:5, Funny)
faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife
That must mean there is a very advanced random behavior generator on-board.
Otherwise, it'd be about as much fun as watching a digital clock click off the time.
No, no (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you mean *Quiver*
Re:No, no (Score:5, Funny)
In any case, it sounds to me like he has designed himself a robot *girlfriend* at the moment. When it is capable of having a simulated headache, we can upgrade it to 'wife' status.
Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a second. . .
The guy is obviously a freak. (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, he had the chance to design his own wife, and look how flat-chested he made her.
Re:The guy is obviously a freak. (Score:5, Informative)
I mean, he had the chance to design his own wife, and look how flat-chested he made her.
Some of us like women like that ;)
Re:The guy is obviously a freak. (Score:5, Funny)
> Some of us like women like that ;)
Robotic? (Sorry, lack of impulse control...)
Re:The guy is obviously a freak. (Score:5, Funny)
He's Japanese and he didn't design her to look like a teenage school-girl.
I'm confused.
Simulated revulsion (Score:5, Insightful)
Shudder? Ick? Oh, please. Don't pretend you haven't thought about it.
I hate people who pretend to be above it all .. it usually turns out that they are actually doing the dirty along with everyone else, they just don't want anyone else to find out about it.
It's an old story (Score:5, Funny)
It's an old, old story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl.
(Shamelessly stolen from my uncle the science fiction writer [isfdb.org].)
Sudo (Score:5, Funny)
Man: Aiko, make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Access denied.
Man: Aiko, sudo make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Turkey, or ham?
Fake (Score:5, Interesting)
A couple minutes from the end, he forgets the question briefly, stutters a little, and breaks his usual pace--and she answers the question anyway, even though he hasn't gotten it out yet.
I'm 99% sure this is scripted. There's not much evidence here that she's anything more than a RealDoll Ruxpin. There's probably -some- computer control there, assuming it's not a remote-control Mechanical Turk, given that it responded to the "stop!" commands. The rest? I'll believe it when it's not just him asking the questions.
obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)
Its a fraud (Score:5, Insightful)
Perfect image recognition + perfect handwriting recognition all decoded and read out in real time AND doing the maths too?
Sorry , but this is a fraud - its nothing more than a pre-programmed voice box he's set up beforehand and he then puts the correct thing in front of it at the right time so it looks like its comprehending it. If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research? He's either a fscking genius and has invented algorithms 20 years ahead of their time or he's got some snake oil tucked away just out of camera shot.
Re:Its a fraud (Score:5, Insightful)
The "one guy in his garage" generally invents a new kind of toaster or something , he doesn't solve complicated algorithmic computer problems in multiple fields all at the same time that thousands of other researchers in the field have failed to do.
Oh , and I forgot to mention - it seems to have perfect speech recognition too.
Buy hey, if he's a genius no doubt he'll patent his algos and clean up and within a year we'll all have it on our desktops.
Or maybe not.
Because everyone knows that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? (Score:5, Funny)
"even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm."
Like ALL women! AMAZING!
Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? (Score:5, Insightful)
that part did seem rather awkward. it doesn't help that the article tries to play up the capabilities of the robot.
right... how does she get him a drink or clean the house without being able to walk? i don't see any wheels attached to her in any of the photos. typical media sensationalism...
this story seems to be more hype than substance. it's just a creepy nerd who's added speakers and some actuators to his Real Doll(tm). i don't see any technology demonstrated here that hasn't already existed in some form or another in various children's toys from the 80's and 90's.
i mean, does /. really have nothing better to put up on the front page than fluff pieces from The Sun [thesun.co.uk]? this kind of tripe might impress technologically illiterate housewives, but it doesn't belong on a site purportedly aimed at nerds.
Re:What's wrong with this picture? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not Japan, Not America (Score:5, Insightful)
Also, his command for her to read Japanese was not actually a Japanese command. It was an English command translated to Japanese (i.e. in English a command is issued with just the uninflected simple non-past verb, whereas it has to be conjugated to form a command--and there are several politeness levels--in Japanese).
What we are seeing here is a creepy foreigner with a creepy Japanese otaku fetish.