I’ve posted other fun chat logs with bots in the past. This one seems to be pretty much a slightly modified variant on the old ones from six or so years ago. Funny that this one lies about its age. The name is juicyqt72, which indicates that, born in 1972, “she’d” be 39, yet “she” claims to be 24 in the first response. Previously, previously, previously, previously, and previously. Bonus: this never quite explained thing from 2003...

This robot is probably too cute to be used as an effective security ‘bot, but it does have some interesting features for an educational robot. RURO the robot was designed to teach kids about recycling.RURO was designed by grade-school kids and sponsored by Osaka’s business community. A contest… via RURO: The Cutest Robot You’ve Ever Seen!.

Is it a bad thing that I tend to trust machines over humans? Obviously, not in every single case. There are certain exceptions. All things being equal, though, were I to come across a human stranger or a strange machine, I think I’d be more likely to trust the machine to perform up to expectations over the human. What I’m not self-aware enough to know is whether that’s an innate trait of mine, or a bias built from experience with humans...

They’ve been working on dancing robots in Japan (they being a company called Kawada). This is version one, from what I can (badly) translate from Japanese: Here’s the current version....

This is just a quick note to say that I’m particularly in love with a simple app out there called Dlvr.IT. It’s helped me pare down my social media workflow. You know, that problem that Louis Gray seems to address once every six months? Should I automatically send Google Reader shares to Twitter? Should I share Twitter to Google Buzz? What about Buzz to Facebook? The list goes on and on. I had said (publicly) that when I stop to consider...