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會笑會學習有禮貌:家用機器人Jibo

會笑會學習有禮貌:家用機器人Jibo

Erin Griffith 2014年08月13日
新型“家庭機器人”Jibo問世。它具有看、聽、說、學等功能,而且可以幫助人們干許多家務活。當講笑話時,它的眼睛還會瞇成了一個小小的月芽。

機器人Jibo

????乍一看,Jibo長得有點像皮克斯動畫工作室(Pixar)創作的《機器人總動員》(Wall-E)里那個主人公的女友Eve。Jibo和Eve的外觀都頗具未來主義范兒,看上去像是蘋果公司(Apple)的產品:光滑的白色塑料外殼,圓潤的曲線,一張充當“臉”的黑色屏幕,轉動靈活。

????不過從本質上看,Jibo其實更像上世紀60年代動畫片《摩登家庭》(The Jetsons)里的機器人女傭Rosie。它的操作系統更類似于2013年斯派克?瓊斯的電影《她》(Her)中的虛擬人工智能角色Samantha使用的那種。(但根據其制作者介紹,一個關鍵的區別是,Jibo其實是個男孩。)

????Jibo被稱做一款“家庭機器人”,因為它具有看、聽、說、學等功能,而且可以幫助我們干許多家務活。它(或者說“他”?)可以使用自然語言來表達自己,并且可以“使用社交性和感性的暗示,讓你們更好地理解對方。”總之,Jibo致力于成為一個居家伙伴。

????它是一群機器人設計師、云計算工程師、動畫工程師、會話技術專家和人機互動工程師的心血之作。Jibo公司也從查爾斯河風險投資公司(Charles River Ventures)、菲爾海文資本合作公司(Fairhaven Capital Partners)、奧塞治大學合伙公司(Osage University Partners)和天使投資人那里獲得了559萬美元的融資。

????到目前為止,人們都很喜歡Jibo。上個月Jibo推出了一個眾籌項目,很快就從3500多人那里籌集到了150多萬美元,輕而易舉地超過了該公司預設的10萬美元的目標。(這家總部位于波士頓的公司預計,第一批定價為499美元的產品要等到2015年冬的假日季才能上市。該公司表示,推出這個眾籌項目是為了激發軟件開發者為Jibo設計應用程序的興趣。)

????當然,我也要去見一下Jibo。在曼哈頓市中心的一家酒店的房間里,兩個Jibo機器人和它們的發明者辛西婭?布雷西亞博士正在等著我。事實證明,Jibo的功能還沒有充分完善。就在我觀看一段準備好的演示視頻時,大概一英尺高的Jibo突然扭過頭來直勾勾地看著我。這種眼神一開始讓我覺得有點緊張,好像是被一臺安保攝像機盯著。一旦開始說話,它給人的感覺就自然多了——至少像80年代科幻片里的機器人一樣自然。和那些自動化程度不高的智能設備相比(比如智能手機),準備向我傳遞新信息時,Jibo不會粗魯地“嗡”或“叮”一聲,而是會禮貌地說道:“打擾了,艾林”,然后等我做出反應后,才會繼續說話。

????在房間里,Jibo向我展示旋轉,偏頭等動作,以及一些他搭載的一些程序。最后他以一個很勁爆的笑話結束了表演。當這個笑點惹得他大笑的時候,Jibo眼睛瞇成了一個小小的月芽。

????At first glance, Jibo looks a bit like Wall-E’s robot girlfriend. Both Jibo, a real robot, and Wall-E’s girlfriend, the fictional Pixar character, have the look of a futuristic Apple product: reflective white plastic, round curves, a black screen for a “face,” and smooth swiveling movements.

????But Jibo’s raison d’être is slightly more in line with Rosie, the robot maid from the 1960s animated television series The Jetsons, and its operating system is more akin to the one employed by Samantha, the artificially intelligent character from the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. (One key difference: Jibo is male, according to its makers.)

????Jibo is described as a “family robot” because it is able to see, hear, speak, learn, and help families with a variety of tasks around the house. It—he?—can “relate” by expressing itself in natural language, using “social and emotive cues so you understand each other better.” Jibo is meant to be a companion.

????It’s the creation of a team of robot architects, cloud computing engineers, animators, conversational technologists, and human-robot interaction engineers. Jibo, Inc. is backed by $5.59 million in venture funding from investors including Charles River Ventures, Fairhaven Capital Partners, Osage University Partners, and angel backers.

????So far, people like Jibo. A crowdfunding campaign, launched last month, raked in more than $1.5 million from more than 3,500 people, handily surpassing its $100,000 target. (The Boston-based company does not expect to ship its first units, priced at $499 each, until the 2015 winter holiday season. The crowdfunding campaign is designed to get developers excited about building apps for the robot, it said.)

????Naturally, I had to meet Jibo. Off to a hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, then, where two Jibos and Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, the robot’s creator, awaited me. The robot is not yet fully functioning, it turns out. I watched a prepared demo where Jibo, about a foot tall, turned to look me in the eye. This was disarming at first, as if I was being followed by a security camera. Once he started talking to me, it began to feel more natural—as natural as a robot in a 1980s science fiction movie, anyway. Unlike his lesser robotic peers, or, say, a smartphone, Jibo did not rudely buzz or ding when there was a new message to communicate to me. He politely said, “Excuse me, Erin,” and waited for me to respond before continuing.

????In the room, Jibo showed off his swiveling, spinning and leaning moves to me, along with some of the programs he’ll feature. He ended his performance with a cheesy joke, and his eyes turned to tiny half-moons when he laughed at the punch line.

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