{"id":117733,"date":"2020-12-29T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-built-a-robot-with-a-sense-of-irony-its-insufferable"},"modified":"2020-12-29T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T10:22:17","slug":"scientists-built-a-robot-with-a-sense-of-irony-its-insufferable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-built-a-robot-with-a-sense-of-irony-its-insufferable","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Built a Robot With a Sense of Irony. It\u2019s Insufferable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-built-a-robot-with-a-sense-of-irony-its-insufferable3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This robot + AI is meant to give users the bad news in a gentle way. It\u2019s sense of timing may be off though. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>User Testing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a test with 12 students, Irony Man was deemed more likable than conventional robots. But Irony Man\u2019s inability to know when to use irony could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe robot is not yet able to determine whether and when there is a good moment to employ irony,\u201d Andr\u00e9 said. \u201cIt may happen that the robot generates a funny utterance, but the user is irritated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This robot + AI is meant to give users the bad news in a gentle way. It\u2019s sense of timing may be off though. \ud83d\ude03 User Testing In a test with 12 students, Irony Man was deemed more likable than conventional robots. But Irony Man\u2019s inability to know when to use irony could backfire. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}