Your friend - a man? .. 7 facts about ehoborgah - living people for whom the computer says

Looking at ehoborga, you would never have believed that for him the computer says. Who are ehoborgi and why they are needed? Researchers from the London School of Economics wants to understand how the appearance and behavior of creatures with artificial intelligence can influence our attitude towards it. This is important because over time, in all probability, we will be surrounded by machines, outwardly indistinguishable from a person, and it is necessary to know in advance the possible reaction to our coexistence with them.





1. Ehoborgi - voluntary participants in the experiment. Usually they are students. Their mission - to sound a replica of artificial intelligence.

2. All ehoborgom spoken word generated by the program on the Internet and served in audio form at discreet earpiece in your ear. Speaking to ehoborgom, you talk to the program.

3. Ehoborgi do not feel much discomfort from the fact that under the control of the computer: "Only today I first came up with the idea that I have in this experiment - no more than the body" - The girl told ehoborg named Sophia.

4. The researchers suggest that pretty soon people will be surrounded by intelligent machines and trying to figure out what will be their reaction to it.

5. In an experiment with ehoborgami surprisingly found that people spent 20 minutes in a conversation with a machine, not even suspected that do not communicate with a live person. It turned out that we are unable to notice that the words spoken conversationalist, originate from a remote source.

6. In one experiment, 11-year-old ehoborgu asked questions a group of adults. Despite the fact that they were talking about such "adult" things like the death of Margaret Thatcher or the financial crisis, adult interlocutors concluded that the child is just "precocious».

7. «The vast majority of people are not able to notice that interact with it" - this conclusion was made by researchers.

via www.bbc.com/russian/science/2015/07/150731_vert_fut_people_possessed_by_computers