Plans for Apple’s desktop robot seem to be excellent and terrible – 9to5mac

Yesterday Bloomberg The news of the upcoming robot Apple Robot Robot did not reveal anything new about hardware, but plans to be a personality could attract a huge gambling.

The starting point seems to be both non -intervention and great idea – set up a user interface on a friendly search engine icon that we knew and loved the sale of the welcome screen of the original Macintosh in 1984…

An animated face -based face

While Mark Gurman said that the alternatives of memoji-styleles are being considered, the revival of the Finder icon really sounds for me.

Apple plans to place Siri in the center of the device’s operating system and gives him a visual personality to feel Lifelike (…) Apple tested to make Siri look like the animated version of the Finder logo, an iconic smileys representing the MAC file management system.

It would be a big compromise between the abstract and now dated animation Siri on the one hand and the photorealistic human face on the other. The form seems too boring for a robot style, while it seems to be a little decing.

Virtual companion

But another aspect of Apple’s reported plans seems to be much more risky. The report described it as an attempt at a “virtual companion” and suggests that it can be far from passive.

A table robot, which serves as a virtual companion, aimed at 2027, is the highlight of AI strategy, according to people with knowledge of the matter (…)

Like the human head, he can turn to man (…) and even try to attract the attention of someone who will not face it (…)

A characteristic feature of the device is a brand new version of Siri’s voice assistant, which can enter conversations among more people. He will be able to work with users throughout the day and ESPARED evoke information.

The idea is for the device to behave like a man in a room. It could interrupt the conversation among friends about dinner plans, say and design nearby restaurants or recipes.

It sounds, Uh, how do I give it? Oh yes: terrible.

Yes, it should turn to the people who add it. Yes, it should use face recognition to know who is talking to it, and use this information to respond with the appropriate context information such as the upcoming calendar items. But are you constantly listening to private conversations and interrupt people to offer junk suggestions? Um, not thanks!

Given Apple’s approach to privacy, I am sure that the reality will be such that it is something you switch and turn off as you want. But I still see it as something that I would just try for the news and then turn off forever.

Maybe Apple feels she has to do something radical

It is no secret that Apple was Fauln Way behind the curve when it came to AI, and it would take some remarkable time to catch up.

With a key approach, Apple has been impressed many times to sit and watch competitors watching, and then likes to produce something bether than anything else on the market. The best not first, as the company would say.

It sounds like the company could hope with this product and because it is so So far, it may feel that he needs to do something radical here. But it honestly hits me, at best it has a massive gambling and in the worst case a terrible idea.

Gurman referred to Microsoft Clippy as a previous example of animated face and personality – and we all know how well that World!

What is your opinion? Do you think Apple should take this gambling? And do you think it will be welcome or mocked? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

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