{"id":301907,"date":"2021-07-18T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/robot-that-can-read-emotions-keeps-getting-fired-from-jobs\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T23:04:08","slug":"robot-that-can-read-emotions-keeps-getting-fired-from-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/robot-that-can-read-emotions-keeps-getting-fired-from-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Robot that can ‘read emotions’ keeps getting fired from jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Robot that can ‘read emotions’ keeps getting fired from jobs<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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These are not the droids you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n

Japanese-based Softbank Group announced last week it was pressing pause on \u201cPepper\u201d, an artificial intelligent robot it started producing in 2014, after multiple \u201cfirings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pepper, which was supposed to be able to \u201cread emotions\u201d and converse with people, has been axed by multiple companies around the world for various issues.<\/p>\n

Nissei Eco Co., a plastics manufacturer with a sideline in the funeral business, hired Pepper to chant sutras or script<\/a>ures to mourners at funerals, but soon fired it after Pepper kept breaking down during practice runs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if it refused to operate in the middle of a ceremony?\u201d funeral-business manager Osamu Funaki told the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cIt would be such a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scottish grocery chain Margiotta installed a Pepper in their flagship Edinburgh store, but was fired after continually telling customers to look \u201cin the alcohol section\u201d when they asked where things were.<\/p>\n

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Pepper the robot at work at Margiotta Food and Wine in Edinburgh.<\/figcaption>
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A Japanese nursing-home company purchased three Pepper androids to keep residents company and lead group singalongs. These Peppers were fired after taking \u201cunplanned breaks\u201d at work.<\/p>\n

A Pepper who led cheers at the SoftBank Hawks baseball team game<\/a>s was ditched for being creepy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminded me of a military parade in North Korea or China,\u201d baseball fan Hirofumi Miyato told the Journal. \u201cIt felt creepy\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Pepper the robot was designed to be able to read people\u2019s emotions and communicate with them.<\/figcaption>
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Robotics expert Professor Noel Sharkey told the BBC: \u201cPepper did a lot to harm genuine robotics research by giving an often false impression of a bright cognitive being that could hold conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it has the shape of a person, people expect the intelligence of a human,\u201d Takayuki Furuta, head of the Future Robotics Technology<\/a> Center at Chiba Institute of Technology, told the Journal. \u201cThe level of the technology completely falls short of that. It\u2019s like the difference between a toy car and an actual car.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Robot that can ‘read emotions’ keeps getting fired from jobs” These are not the droids you\u2019re looking for. Japanese-based Softbank Group announced last week it was pressing pause on \u201cPepper\u201d, an artificial intelligent robot it started producing in 2014, after multiple \u201cfirings.\u201d Pepper, which was supposed to be able to \u201cread emotions\u201d and converse with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Softbank-Group-079.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112110,20618,5049,74124],"class_list":["post-301907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-17-21","tag-japan","tag-robots","tag-softbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}