If we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times, stop trying to make robots into "
friendly companions!" MIT must have some hubris stuck in its ears, as its labs are back at it with what looks like
Clippy gone 3D, with an extra dash of
Knight Rider-inspired personality. What we're talking about here is a dashboard-mounted AI system that collects environmental data, such as local events, traffic and gas stations, and combines it with a careful analysis of your driving habits and style to make helpful suggestions and note points of interest. By careful analysis we mean it snoops on your every move, and by helpful suggestions we mean it probably nags you to death (its own death). Then again, the thing's been designed to communicate with those big Audi eyes, making even our hardened hearts warm just a little. Video after the break.
posted Oct 30th 2009 4:48AM
lmao
Can't wait to hear about the first time that "aida" suggests going to "girlfriend's house" when a wife is on the co-pilot seat.... LOL
Waaaaaaallll-eeeeeee
Looks more like a mechanical ET to me, than like Wall-E.
I don't know why, but just looking at this thing makes me want to punch it in its face. Hard.
looks more like a ROB that's capable of more than whirring and breaking.
eeeeveeeeee (marco-polo)
There's a lot of talk in this video... not a whole lot of demonstration. >_>
nice prototype :P
bei da ne?
"...a dashboard-mounted AI system that collects environmental data, such as local events, traffic and gas stations, and combines it with a careful analysis of your driving habits and style to make helpful suggestions and note points of interest....it snoops on your every move, and by helpful suggestions we mean it probably nags you to death (its own death). "
A girlfriend does those things, too.
Your girlfriend is dashboard-mounted?
She can be mounted yet the effect wont be that practical.
Also, your girlfriend is likely 1000000 times more expensive than this prototype.
Give me ten minutes with it. I'll have this thing giving blowjobs.
Nerds ... raise your hand if you have a girlfriend.
I thought so ... sigh ... D:
I want to see it in action!!
you want to see his girlfrend in action...
Future GPX Cyber Formula.
I'm saying this for years:
Driving assistants must act more personal.
They need to learn my habits, build up knowledge about successful routes that cause little stress, and realize when it's the best way to give advice, or to shut up (I don't need a "turn right" if I'm 100m away from home...).
IMO, as funny as it may look to some of you, this is exactly a step in the right direction.
Kabe
Kill it. Kill it dead. Do it NOW.
With Fire. And LOTS of it.
Robots don't die even if they're killed.
Is it me, or wouldn't a dismembered head suddenly popping up in the middle of the dash to obscure your view be a little distracting?
This sounds too much like "... your plastic pal who's fun to be with." These guys should be "the first up against the wall when the revolution comes."
Isn't that the old Audi logo?
I do not want any device that can be sad, emote sadness or express sadness. Or disappointment. There's something fundamentally wrong about a soulless object that has the ability to negatively affect the thing that makes us human: emotions.
great idea but i could see myself punching this thing if it aggrevated me just like how i hate having the voice on a GPS, i can see where you want me to turn stop telling me to turn in 30, 15, 5 feet!!!!!
it's nice to see a real-world use for those pico-projectors
Did you see the guy scratch it on the head at the end?
Him wuv his wobot.
Clitty?
For some reason, the way they mounted aida on the dashboard kinda reminds me of the movie Flight of the Navigator
Number 5 Alive!!
Looks more like Clippy and Twinkie (from Buck Rogers) to me.
Is the sort of Robot Petting displayed at the end of the video really the sort of thing people should be involved in while trying to drive?
And surely after a month you would know how to drive to the petrol pump, store and then home by yourself?
What about an 'intelligent' fridge for chunky, impressionable people?
"Steve, I'm really sad because you feel like to need to eat another pie, I thought we were getting somewhere, you've dissapointed me and I've dissapointed myself..."
What ever the fuck happened to using your head to go around places????
I would feel so dumb inside a car that has this.
EEEEEEEVAAAAAA!
so...Aida would also tell where I normally go, which route I take, what place I interest to whoever is driving my car?
*Aida will guide your girlfriend to whatever place you go often or to whoever you are hiding from her...
*Aida will also guide the car theft to your home safely and avoiding traffics...
* Aida will guide you to work even if you are on holiday because Aida took a month to learn that is your usual route and Aida couldn't learn human doesn't do thing/drive like a robot~
Rather than putting this into an audi, why not combine this with the [url=http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/video-nissans-eporo-robot-car-heads-to-the-races-slow-and-ste/]Eporo[/url] for the ultimate in robotic cuteness?
(and here's to hoping that the url tags work...)
Nope, they sure didn't... >_<
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/video-nissans-eporo-robot-car-heads-to-the-races-slow-and-ste/
F**king aida!!!
Considering that it's aimed at Audi customers, my boss will have one in both of his company cars ASAP. Realistically, this is just personalizing robot driven autos. After a month of learning your routes, shopping patterns, etc, you get sleepy, and the thing sees you nodding off. It tells you sweetly to nap, it will take you to your destination. While your sleeping, AIDA is in comms with your smart kitchen. (What, you forgot about the GE SmartGrid?) Dinner is all but ready, considering that the ingredients are on the way home. (S)he's also paid this months installment to Government Motors for your OnStar "subscription" that the Feds graciously legislated be on ALL motor driven vehicles.
I'm not being either an optimist or a pessimist on this one, but this sh*t is coming together rather too easily, wouldn't you say?
What MIT didn't tell you is that this is only intended to be sold to kids under 10 who drive.
I would probably end up eating its head. Mmm...marshmallow.