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A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals (apnews.com)
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[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Developing the robots is mostly up front costs (between paying someone to “code” the thing and then buying the units) vs paying however many employees forever which is why I say it’s more expensive.

If they could make an actual genai I think it could help with loneliness but we won’t be there anytime soon, if ever, the way they keep following a strategy of scaling and optimizing a speech center.