It's a shame that Sony discontinued their robotics division. I suspect in this case this is just anthropomorphisation of some quirk of the robots control system. What's being described here is the psychological principle of reciprocation: I give something of value to you, you give something of value to me. Breaking this symmetry is generally regarded as impolite, because one party ends up with a significant advantage at the expense of the other.
There are a few examples of how reciprocation works, and how it may sometimes be exploited, in the book Influence: the psychology of persuasion, by Robert Cialdini. On 27/04/07, Eric B. Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In reading about Sony's QRIO robot I came across the following. What would this behaviour be categorized as in the continuum from thermostat to human (following a previous thread)? : "Interestingly, when they're doing demonstrations, they have found that the AI in QRIO is so strong that if you haven't been friendly with it before hand, for examples, by not kicking back a football it kicks to you, it will refuse to do what you ask it in the demonstration. Effectively it is expressing its annoyance...." ------------------------------ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;
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