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My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED
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At this moment, it is exactly 10:03 GMT.
But it's 12:03 here in Vienna.
Why?
Britain adopted GMT in 1847
and formally legislated it in 1880.
This decision wasn't born
from some overarching philosophical discussion
about the concept of time and location.
It was just practicality.
We needed to know when trains would be arriving and departing
at any station
along an expansive railroad route.
This need rendered local solar times too imprecise
and necessitated our modern day concept of time zones.
I'm a historian,
and I am fascinated by the factors
that shape progress surrounding technology.
From steam power to the telephone to the internet,
we can track the intertwined development of society
and technology as each new innovative leap is made.
The technological progress of our generation is AI.
Analyzing how AI will both fit into and shape our world
is a fascinating topic that, more often than not,
is sensationalized with these huge promises
or catastrophized with disaster.
But in a world that is just screaming for you to think big
in order to discuss the future,
as a historian, I ask you to think small.
The history of technological progress
and its accompanying regulatory frameworks
teach us that our future with AI and robotics
won't only be decided by these large,
sweeping philosophical discussions,
but through practicality,
through the answering of thousands of practical questions
that arise from the simple minutia of sharing everyday life.
I have embarked upon a research project
to uncover what all of these thousands of questions really are.
I have spent the greater part of this past year
living alongside an AI humanoid robot.
I hatched this immersive research project
because I already had all of these questions
building up on my own, right?
I have a little dog.
How would my dog act around the humanoid robot?
[Who is this?]
(Laughter)
How would the robot handle a house full of delicate antiques?
With factories all over the world,
working hard to get domestic AI robotics to market,
and these engaging viral videos igniting curiosity
and millions of people around the world,
I felt that as a historian,
living thoughtfully and openly with a humanoid robot,
I could help to provide a glimpse into what the future could look like,
start some interesting conversations, find gaps in regulation
and experiment with community standards for the world around me.
This is a Unitree G1 EDU-1.
It's equipped with 3D lidar scanning and a depth camera
and a microphone array.
It has a large language model which name is BenBen,
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