Chatty C-3PO (Threepio) Explores Human-AI Relations
AI chatbots are a dime a dozen, sometimes cheaper. Chatbots in custom hardware are less numerous, but still pop up steadily. So if you want a conversational robot to stand out, it helps to go the extra mile. Something like a realistic layer of personality, a shiny gold coat, and six-million forms of communication would help a lot. Sam Potozkin’s Threepio project pulls it off. Inspired (of course) by the original 1977 film, Potozkin, a student at Chapman University, has...
