Event Blog 2

Masa Jazbec & myself at the event

For this event I attended Masa Jazbec's lecture. She researches robots and androids in Japan. Masa described classifications for the new machines in relation to human society, Geminoid' s, Humanoids and Androids. Masa stated that Geminoids are closest to humans. She even went as far as to say the Gemini's are copies of human beings. These robots have been integrated into our society, as they have grown smarter through time as humans have further developed them. I personally feel that having robots so closely integrated into our society could be problematic. I believe the closer robots are to humans, the line between the relationship with humans and robots will be blurred. In most cinema films, that division causes a problem for humans, I do not think that robots with emotions and humanlike characteristics should totally be integrated. Especially as Masa goes into detail of a girl interacting with a geminoid version of her father, and she could not comprehend that it was a robot she was talking too. That did not sit well with me, because I believe robots with that much human likeness could easily bring about miscommunications and mishappenings.