Don’t Look Into This Robot’s Eyes While It Learns to Play the Ball-and-Cup Game

Japan’spopularPepper golem can approximate yourmood , groom up in cuteclothesand now , it can learn to play mere games .

Pepper ’s human overlords have show that their machinelike baby can acquire how to start the lump - and - cup plot virtually on its own . At first , they guide its weapon system to swing the ball on its rophy into the cup . And then they get it go to work through trial - and - error until it achieves complete mastery of the plot . After 100 tries , the little bozo is a pro and gets the lump in the cup every single time . All the while , it stare at us the spectator with the same deadlocked side eye . It ’s redoubtable .

Maybe something changed in Pepper when it got mixed up withIBM ’s Watsonearlier this year , but there ’s something sinister going on here . Or mayhap it ’s just opine about a dingy joke and judge to keep from laughing .