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that robot is joke and company is delusional.
>"can understand speech"
every response is programmed. maybe in a clever manner, such as chatbot. most likely using something like aiml which is why she gives that stupid fucking response about destroying humans - there is no understanding of the language.
>"get smarter over time"
so maybe it uses facial analysis of the response of the person talking to it to determine if a response it gives was right or wrong, and weights responses accordingly. does it learn new phrases? possibly it could by listening to responses, then replaying those responses when a similar question is asked and then using facial analysis again to determine if response was correct in that context and weighting response accordingly. is it creating its own responses? no! is just a fucking expensive parrot.
>"we're designing these robots to serve in healthcare, therapy, education, and customer service applications"
healthcare and therapy - okay, for autists and psychotics who need friend this probably suitable. chatbot already good alternative.
education - no. all this does is parrot back trained responses. kid is better off reading on internet whatever kid is interested in. maybe this suitable for common core though since no thinking allowed.
customer service applications - self-serve checkout is already thing and easy to use, cheaper than this shitty robot. if i need help in the store finding something, just make decent phone app that can help me find the item i'm looking for, or make recommendation if that is what i ask for. is easier, cheaper, faster to deploy, easier to update, if the app fails in given situation then robot likely fails too.
>"our goal is that she will be as conscious, creative, and capable as any human"
company is delusional. we largely do not even understand how brains work, what algorithms are at play in the brain, until then the best they will achieve is a shitty imitation that comes off as inhuman. this why humanoid robots are joke except in very limit areas such as therapy, or sexbot (which also maybe kind of therapy).
this robot just voice recognition library + microsoft samantha + aiml + facial expressions. this robot is joke.
you want make cool robot, you learn c++ you learn python, you learn ros. you git gud then you make cool robot that suck your dick and don't nag you or ask for money. all neets buy your robot then you have money to buy real girl like alexis who suck your dick for money and not need power plug like fucking sexbot who always remind you she need recharge like shut the fuck up already.