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Summary of Alone Together by Sherry Turkle | Free Audiobook

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How Robots Can Be Used to Cure Loneliness

When the elderly lose a spouse, they often become lonely. This is why many nurses and physicians bring social robots like my real baby into nursing homes. For children, attachments to robots can have hurtful consequences when they break or malfunction. Kismet is a human mike robot designed to simulate a toddler's emotions. It speaks in a soft babble that mimics the inflection of human speech. However, kismet was often buggy and suffered glitches while children interact with it. One girl believed she had done something wrong to make kismet malfunction.

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