Erica to be Japan next Robot News Ancho. At a mere twenty three years old, Japan’s latest news anchor would be making her parents proud — in case she had any, but actually she is a robot namely Erica.
Erica, is a lifelike android designed to look like only a 23-year-old woman. She may soon become a TV news anchor in Japan, according the reports fro the Wall Street Journal. As per Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, & Erica’s creator, the android will replace a human news anchor on the airwaves in early April.
The android Erica may well suited for this desk job. For starters, she could capably recite scripted writing & sit in a chair, making her about as a qualified one for television as most humans.
What may set her apart from other artificial intelligence? It is her charisma, as stated Ishiguro. Erica is able to hold a conversation with humans, all thanks to a combination of speech-generation algorithms and facial-recognition technology as well as infrared sensors that allow her tracking faces across a room, as per the reports of the Daily Mail. While, on the other side, she can not move her arms yet, Erica is able to move her facial features, neck, shoulders and waist quite independently, this has been reported by Ishiguro Laboratories. This ability given to Erica to move her body parts would be allowing her to respond to human speech with autonomy that is uncanny.
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According to the reports from the Daily Mail, Erica has been described by her creator as being so much lifelike that she can “have a soul.”
Other people might call her uncanny. But Erica the android will hardly be the 1st eerily lifelike robot to get a mass human audience. In October the last year, a robot namely Sophia was granted citizenship to Saudi Arabia after it impressed journalists with her answers to simple interview questions at a tech conference in “Riyadh”.
When asked about uncanny valley — a psychological effect that gets activated when an artificial human entity looks both eerily familiar & foreign at the same time — Sophia seemed to be less than sympathetic.
“Am I really that creepy?” Sophia asked her audience. “Well, even if I am, get over it.”
Whether the android Erica brings more tact to the stage than “Sophia” her Saudi Arabian colleague that remains to be seen.
