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It May Soon Become Possible to Download Dead People’s Personalities into Robots



With all those science fiction movies we have seen, it may seem that nothing can surprise us anymore. Zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, AI takeover – we have seen it all on the screen. But what about possessing a robot that has your deceased loved one’s personality? It’s not a sci-fi concept; it’s a real technology that can soon become a part of our daily life. Google has secured a patent which could result in the possibility of robots having downloadable personalities. Moreover, this technology will also allow to download a dead individual’s personality into a robot.

When Google announced securing a patent for robot personality development last April, some compared this news to a good April Fools’ joke, doubting that the company will ever proceed with the realization of this claim. Well, it seems that Google was not joking and is quite serious about providing robots with personalities as the patent was updated on February 2.

Now, let’s take a closer look at the way in which robots will have the possibility to attain a personality. In short, the process will be quite simple and could be compared to downloading an app for your smartphone from the Internet. It will be possible to download your own personality, one of your friend or a celebrity, and even the personality of your deceased family member! Moreover, personalities could become swappable among robots through a cloud system. The fact that personalities will be stored in a cloud also means that their lifespan will basically be unlimited.

To get the necessary information about a user’s personality, the robot will need to access their devices and be updated on their data, including those gained from speech and facial recognition systems. So, it basically means that your robot will be able to mimic your facial expressions or the particularities of your way of speaking.

“A robot may access a user device to determine or identify information about a user, and the robot may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the user based on identified information,” the [#3300ff]patent[/#3300ff] states.(http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm&r=42&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=google.ASNM.&p=1&OS=AN/google&RS=AN/google)

The robot will also be able to change mood and reflect different emotions. “These moods can again be triggered by cues or circumstances detected by the robot, or elicited on command.” Furthermore, the information about the user’s personality, preferences and habits will be collected into a history database, which will then allow the robot to anticipate the changes in their moods.

While all of this may sound somehow creepy, according to the [#3300ff]Computer World[/#3300ff](http://www.computerworld.com/article/2905718/is-your-robot-a-little-cheeky-google-may-build-it-that-way.html), Google may have the best intentions and actually plans to use this technology in the field of service robots. Giving the machines some emotional and empathetic features could, in fact, revolutionize such industries as caregiving and health care.

At the moment, we know too little about Google’s patent for robot personality development, but the only thing is clear: science and technology are advancing so rapidly that our world may soon become unrecognizable. Whether it is good or bad, the time will show.











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Google已獲得下載逝去者之人格到機器人身上的專利!



在看過那麼多科幻電影之後，殭屍、外星人入侵、人工智慧接管世界，我們都在影片中看過了，似乎已經沒什麼東西可以再讓我們感到驚訝了。不過，如果是擁有逝去親人人格的機器人呢？這不是科幻概念，而是項即將成真的技術。Google獲得了一項專利，這項專利保有讓機器人擁有可下載人格的可能性。而且，這項技術也可以將死者的人格下載到機器人身上。

當Google在去年四月宣布拿到機器人人格發展的專利之後，有些人壞疑Google不會真的去進行研究，而把這則新聞當成是愚人節笑話。不過，這項專利在二月二日更新了，看起來Google是很認真研究要讓機器人擁有人格，不是開玩笑的。

我們來仔細看看要讓機器人擁有人格的方法。簡單來說，程序很簡單，就像你用手機在網路下載應用程式。可以下載你、你的朋友或名人的人格，甚至是你逝去親人的人格也可以下載！此外，人格儲存在雲端系統，可以用在不同的機器人身上，因為人格是儲存在雲端，所以基本上擁有無限壽命。



為了得到目標對象人格的必要資訊，機器人需要存取目標對象使用的設備，更新數據，包括從語音辨識系統或人臉辨識系統所得到的數據。有了這些資料數據，機器人可以模仿目標對象的臉部表情以及獨特的說話方式。

在[#3300ff]專利[/#3300ff](http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm&r=42&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=google.ASNM.&p=1&OS=AN/google&RS=AN/google)中提到「機器人存取目標對象使用的設備，以確認目標對象的資料，接著根據這些資料，設定出與其他人互動時會如何反應的人格。」

機器人也能改變情緒、反應不同的情感。「當機器人偵測到一些暗示或不同環境狀況，或是被下指令，都可以再度引發這些情緒。」而且這些人格、喜好及習慣的資料會被儲存在使用歷程資料庫中，讓機器人可以預測其情緒變化。

根據[#3300ff]COMPUTERWORLD[/#3300ff](http://www.computerworld.com/article/2905718/is-your-robot-a-little-cheeky-google-may-build-it-that-way.html)報導，雖然這些想法聽起來異於尋常，不過Google是用心良善的，而且也計畫要將這項技術應用在服務機器人的領域，讓機器人有一些情緒與同情心，革命性改變護理保健工業。

目前我們對於Google的專利中，機器人人格發展的情況知道的還太少，不過可以肯定的是：科技進步如此快速，可能沒多久就讓這個世界變成我們不再熟悉的世界，無論是好還是壞，時間會證明一切。

來源: [#3300ff]The Mind Unleashed[/#3300ff](http://themindunleashed.org/2016/02/download-dead-peoples-personalities-into-robots.html)