I wonder if future designers of the USS Enterprise-D computer thought this way, and that is why the computer frequently answers commands with beeps instead of conversationally, and is often purposefully stupid (like it’s asking of temperature for drinks).
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Apologies for pedantry, but I think you mean solar orbit or circumnavigation. A solar cycle is something a bit longer.
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I do hope you mean the robots.
Exterminate!!!
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I’ll take two. One with the conversation chip enabled, the other without, and with a restraining bolt.
Seriously though, the world will be an even creepier place when this becomes a real option. There will be celebrities happy to be the model for the Fun-Bots, others horrified at the thought already, and once they put shiny, smiley humanoid faces on the Kill-Bots, well damn, it’s all over for us then…
I’m not worried if the uncanny valley-vibe is learned or innate; the younger it kicks in the better for us all!!
“Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with!”
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Young children draw adults as triangles. Compared to that, any vaguely human-shaped robot is a dead ringer. We have to develop a sufficiently complex model of what a person (or animal) is before obtaining a sense for when a simulacrum isn’t quite right. By that formulation, the uncanny valley effect isn’t learned but would be a consequence of emerging sophistication.
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Fake news. That poll included Trump voters. Sad.
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