Comments on: The Japanese Love Their New French Robot Named Pepper https://techsomogro.com/japanese-love-french-robot-named-pepper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japanese-love-french-robot-named-pepper Science, Technology and the Future Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Allen Gage https://techsomogro.com/japanese-love-french-robot-named-pepper/#comment-14234 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:03:00 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=17867#comment-14234 Len Rosen. Well I think of the suppositional Schlepper more like a Pepper plus plus plus. That many pluses makes a qualitative change, not just a linear scale increase. I mentioned the Samsung tablet camera as certain evidence that dirt cheap Schlepper eyes are already here. Large scale production of the IBM neurosynaptic chip that you posted about on this forum about a year ago is nearly here. First generation Schlepper will have optical sentience. I don't see why technical implementation of Schlepper need be more than two-three years away. Walmart has a 7-day money back guarantee on its reconditioned Samsung Tablets. They come in factory packing and look like brand new. They don't have the high res models in the stores yet. You have to order them through Walmart.com. See: http://www.walmart.com/ip/42300034?adid=1500000000000038955180&veh=eml&sent_time=1436813690783&campaign_id=rpb_3-0-9-67-3-8-5-4-0-0-optcr&e_id=6a847957fa59a0b63d202e36f2277840 I had first purchased the 8" version, but all the touch screen features were so small that I couldn't operate it without a stylus; also some of the text was so small my old eyes could't read it. After a week I took it back and Walmart gave me a full refund. Just as soon as the new 10.5" connected to the WiFi it automatically started upgrading the KitKat OS to the latest version of Lollipop. Took about 20-minutes. At $300 it's cheap enough that if it only lasts a year and catches fire you get your money's worth. But Walmart offers a 24 month replacement guarantee for only $60. I'm just keeping my $60 and taking my chances. If I did it over again I would probably pay the extra $70 and get the 12" version, but I would be nervous about shorter battery life..]]> In reply to Len Rosen.

Well I think of the suppositional Schlepper more like a Pepper plus plus plus. That many pluses makes a qualitative change, not just a linear scale increase. I mentioned the Samsung tablet camera as certain evidence that dirt cheap Schlepper eyes are already here. Large scale production of the IBM neurosynaptic chip that you posted about on this forum about a year ago is nearly here. First generation Schlepper will have optical sentience. I don’t see why technical implementation of Schlepper need be more than two-three years away.

Walmart has a 7-day money back guarantee on its reconditioned Samsung Tablets. They come in factory packing and look like brand new. They don’t have the high res models in the stores yet. You have to order them through Walmart.com. See: http://www.walmart.com/ip/42300034?adid=1500000000000038955180&veh=eml&sent_time=1436813690783&campaign_id=rpb_3-0-9-67-3-8-5-4-0-0-optcr&e_id=6a847957fa59a0b63d202e36f2277840

I had first purchased the 8″ version, but all the touch screen features were so small that I couldn’t operate it without a stylus; also some of the text was so small my old eyes could’t read it. After a week I took it back and Walmart gave me a full refund. Just as soon as the new 10.5″ connected to the WiFi it automatically started upgrading the KitKat OS to the latest version of Lollipop. Took about 20-minutes. At $300 it’s cheap enough that if it only lasts a year and catches fire you get your money’s worth. But Walmart offers a 24 month replacement guarantee for only $60. I’m just keeping my $60 and taking my chances. If I did it over again I would probably pay the extra $70 and get the 12″ version, but I would be nervous about shorter battery life..

]]> By: Len Rosen https://techsomogro.com/japanese-love-french-robot-named-pepper/#comment-14233 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=17867#comment-14233 Allen Gage. No doubt we are about to witness the wholesale transformation of our social world as more of us relate to robot companions than to each other. As for the latest in tablets, my Samsung after four years died on me about a month ago so I will keep in mind your recommendation. The problem with tablets is way too much stuff under the hood with the inevitable result....burnout. It's the same for smartphones. It's a lot of technology to pack into a small form factor. But your Schlepper is just Pepper Plus and devices like that will easily be able to be updated with interchangeable parts and software uploads.]]> In reply to Allen Gage.

No doubt we are about to witness the wholesale transformation of our social world as more of us relate to robot companions than to each other. As for the latest in tablets, my Samsung after four years died on me about a month ago so I will keep in mind your recommendation. The problem with tablets is way too much stuff under the hood with the inevitable result….burnout. It’s the same for smartphones. It’s a lot of technology to pack into a small form factor. But your Schlepper is just Pepper Plus and devices like that will easily be able to be updated with interchangeable parts and software uploads.

]]> By: Allen Gage https://techsomogro.com/japanese-love-french-robot-named-pepper/#comment-14232 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:03:00 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=17867#comment-14232 Humanity is getting very close to a cheap technology for
personal companion robots that can’t do much useful work, but can search and
verbally communicate the entire knowledge base contained in Wikipedia. One
hundred dollars will now buy a couple hundred gigs of solid-state drive. Within
a couple of years, $30 will buy the IBM/Samsung neurasynaptic system. Five
years hence, a robot house-companion with several terabytes of memory named
Schlepper should retail for less than $3,000 and have enough sense to find a
wall socket when its batteries run low. Schlepper could competently discuss
anything in Wikipedia, keep up with current affairs, mix drinks, recognize
faces, and attend the aged in their homes. Plus Shlepper would do all Pepper’s
cutesy fake emotion interaction stuff. Schlepper would be better company than
the best dogs and most humans. It wouldn’t die on you either. I’m never going
to the assisted living dumping ground for the enfeebled dementia afflicted. I’m
going to get me a Schlepper.

Obviously, Schlepper would be in constant contact with personal companion robot
central control, so it would constantly update like Android, and grow more
competent as a simulated person every day. I’m guessing it will be 2025-2030
before Schlepper will exhibit actual human level finesse of mind. But within
the next five years it will be doing a good job of faking it, probably about as
well as most human females.

There would also be a child’s companion version of Schleppper
named TediBare that associates with babbler babies to teach language and change
diapers. Big changes in human society are waiting in the near future.

As a slightly related aside: Last week I bought the latest model Samsung Galaxy S 10.5″ Android tablet computer from Walmart for only $300. Its color screen resolution is something like 2400×1600 pixels. On its back surface it has a 3/16” square area that is an auto focus camera with more resolution than the high-resolution screen on the front side. It’s not a $500 Nikon, but it’s astonishingly good. It would be plenty good enough to be Shlepper’s eyes. The point is it’s very good and very cheap. Schlepper will have very good vision.

I don’t have any Samsung stock, and I rarely recommend anyone purchase any kind of electronic gadget, but if anyone is considering a tablet computer, he should probably get one of these. I couldn’t be happier. It’s a fantastic value. The tablet buyer should be cautious, however, because there are many last year’s models with nearly the same specs for $100 less. Their cameras and screens are very much lower resolution. That may or may not matter to you. It matters a lot to me because I enjoy fine art paintings. The Fine Art America web site offers 100,000s of high-res full screen images of the world’s finest paintings. On the Samsung Galaxy tablet
screen they show up with photographic quality. No pixilation at all is visible
to the unaided eye.

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