{"id":13600,"date":"2015-03-01T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13600"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:18","slug":"rise-of-the-fembots-why-artificial-intelligence-is-often-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/rise-of-the-fembots-why-artificial-intelligence-is-often-female","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/contact_author.php?a=VkdGdWVXRWdUR1YzYVhNcWRHeGxkMmx6S2pNPQ==\">Tanya Lewis<\/a> \u2014 Live Science<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><br \/> From Apple\u2019s iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan\u2019s first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas. Why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is a pattern here,\u201d said Karl Fredric MacDorman, a computer scientist and expert in human-computer interaction at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. But \u201cI don\u2019t know that there\u2019s one easy answer,\u201d MacDorman told Live Science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49882-why-robots-female.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tanya Lewis \u2014 Live Science From Apple\u2019s iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan\u2019s first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas. Why? \u201cI think there is a pattern here,\u201d said Karl Fredric MacDorman, a computer scientist and expert in human-computer interaction at Indiana University-Purdue University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46600,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions\/46600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}