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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Love In The Time Of Robots
They are called 'androids': beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. And Japanese researcher Hiroshi Ishiguro has built over 30 of them in the past 15 years. His teams are pioneering a research field called HRI, or Human Robot Interaction. It involves engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and social psychology. Its deeper purpose is to understand ‘the mechanics of person-to-person interaction’ through analysing our evolving relationship with robots.
In this Wired cover story, we learn why truly human-like robots are still beyond our reach:
'Because to re-create human presence we need to know more about ourselves than we do—about the accumulation of cues and micromovements that trigger our empathy, put us at ease, and earn our trust. Someday we may crack the problem of creating artificial general intelligence—a machine brain that can intuitively perform any human intellectual task—but why would we choose to interact with it?'
It is a fascinating long-read—one of those that makes you wonder how we will look back on it in a decade or so.
