Philip K. Dick Robot
February 19, 2006
What’s more interesting/ironic, that they created a robot in the likeness of Philip K. Dick, or that it is now missing?
About the robot:
The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world. All of this will run in sync with Hanson Robotics’ highly expressive robot face to emulate a full human-conversational system.
IIS will create the artificial intelligence personality of the robot by mathematically deriving it from Dick’s life and works in a manner very similar to that described by Dick himself in his book We Can Build You (published in 1964).
About the disappearing bot:
The fact the surrealist SF author’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (and Blade Runner, the film based n the book) involved the search for lifelike “replicants” on the lamb suggests to me that this heist is either a publicity stunt or a prank perpetrated by PKD fans.
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Prilliman and others close to Phil baulked at giving too many details about his disappearance including the name of the airline that was transporting the robot when he went missing.
Tags: "artificial intelligence", "Philip K. Dick", AI, robot, sci-fi, science fiction
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