The University of Science and Technology of China just bring out a new naturalistic - see robot named “ Jiajia . ” Although the robot itselfisn’t a immense bounce technologically , it does fare with one worrisome characteristic . It ’s program to say pretty sexist stuff .
In a meeting with Chinese diarist on Friday , Jiajia refer to her male creators as “ Almighty ” and worry about cameras making her human face look rich . Bear in psyche that this actor’s line was program by someone attempting to mimic real human fundamental interaction . And the extent to which Jiajia makes womanhood seem submissive and image - obsessed is almost more disturbing since the robot ’s face can barely move .
Is she nice ? China ’s first interactive robot can answer to human orders , make micro facial expressions and do morehttps://t.co/MLs5TS5Jj7
— China Xinhua News ( @XHNews)April 15 , 2016
But this is just the latest example in a long line of a disconcertingly misogynous robotlike enterprise . Earlier this month , Reuters reported acreep - tastic storyabout a adult male in Hong Kong who built a Scarlett Johansson look - similar robot . Before that , we were inundate with somewhat naturalistic fembots fromcompanies like Toshibaserving as concierges at futurist hotels .
It ’s well-off to cast this aside as a ethnic mistranslation . ( After all a spate of these bots amount from Orient or southeast Asia . ) But American companies have their own history ofbeing obsessed with digitise women over men .
[ Xinhua News ]
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