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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
While this is an intriguing story of a drummer rehab, please observe the head movements of the robot.
If a simple, stylized head can project interest, presence and emotion, why can't a human performer? Yes, the trick is important, and the presentation and the props, etc. How about how you project an interest in what is happening? Even in simple conversation you can engage the listener with hour you move your head, eyes and shoulders. Doesn't work on a cellphone, though.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
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If a simple, stylized head can project interest, presence and emotion, why can't a human performer? It's intriguing, but probably best not to imitate robots. That's the effect, not the method. If you just copy what you see on the outside, the inside will be dead. An audience can feel and sense that. Interest, presence, and emotion come from knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and having a relaxed enough body so that the impulses and thoughts can be made manifest to an audience.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
Never meant to suggest anyone copy a robot, just "if a robot can do it, why not you?"
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts |
I watched the video before I read your comments about the head movement so I find it interesting that I also zoned in on how they programmed the head to add character to the robot when it's obviously not necessary to create the music.
But it also made me think of a couple of other interesting things I've read or watched recently. One was the TV show, Humans, which explores Androids that have human consciousness that are trying to survive in a world that is afraid of the implications of Androids that can think for themselves. The other was the latest Lisbeth Salander novel, "The Girl in the Spider's Web", which deals with a new AI. Lisbeth asks Blomkvist, "what happens if we create a machine which is a little bit cleverer than we are?" After thinking about it for a while Blomkvist realizes that a machine like that could go on to produce something more intelligent than itself and so on and so on until man himself would be no more interesting to the latest computer than a lab rat. This of course is not a new idea but one that very intelligent people are starting to take more seriously. Steven Hawking, in a BBC interview even stated that, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." |
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