Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shortages.
staff are too overworked to have a friendly conversation with the lonely patients, so let’s shove an AI into a bastardized representation of a little girl! yeah great idea guys. if I was lonely in a hospital and they sent a fucking robot to talk to me I might actually get violent.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.
staff are too overworked to have a friendly conversation with the lonely patients, so let’s shove an AI into a bastardized representation of a little girl! yeah great idea guys. if I was lonely in a hospital and they sent a fucking robot to talk to me I might actually get violent.
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Its like they watched Patch Adams and thought it was a great idea but let’s replace him with a soulless avatar to save money
It’s definitely pretty tone-deaf.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.