Muckflash reports on the Japanese fascination with artificial intelligence, this time focused on the emotion of love.
Must Kill. Must Kill! Researchers at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute were thrilled when they successfully programmed Kenji, a third generation humanoid robot, to convincingly emulate certain human emotions. Now, they fear that his programming has taken an extreme turn for the worst for Kenji displays outrageous affection toward the daily object of his desires.
Crushy Crushy Ten Dollar: The trouble started when a young female intern began to spend several hours each day with Kenji, testing his systems and loading new software routines. When it came time to leave one evening, Kenji refused to let her out of his lab enclosure and used his bulky mechanical body to block her exit and hug her repeatedly. The intern was only able to escape after she had frantically phoned two senior staff members to come and temporarily de-activate Kenji.
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