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aubonpam
12/10/08

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I found out the Uncanny Valley was a real thing last week, and not just a joke on 30 Rock. And I'm pretty sure this spooky ass robot woman was in the magazine article I read about it.
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special_boots
12/10/08

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He is 33, not 22...
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exelizabeth
12/10/08

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Um. This is really creepy, because that is my name.
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Liz11685
12/10/08

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There is an anime about these computer women who help Japanese men by being like personal assistants/girlfriends, called Chobits. My boyfriend made me watch it once when we were first dating. The idea creeped me out.
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gold_gato
12/10/08

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She's not a perfect woman; she's a perfect ROBOT.
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sweetbeans
12/10/08

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Sad, socially inept programmer aside, I actually think this is really cool, if creepy. It's too bad her jaw motor is almost as loud as her voice - maybe if her head were attached it would be less noticeable.

Although he's pretty doomed if he thinks that this is a perfect woman. I do appreciate that if you ask her to lick your foot she says no - "I'm not your slave".
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GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
12/10/08

@sweetbeans: I get the feeling he is more interested in the robotics and AI, and wanted to make as realistic a person as he could, and is too socially inept to realize how creepy it is to try to make her into a substitute woman. And people were complaining that it isn't impressive because her sentences are pre-programmed. I don't know much about robotics so it could indeed be a very primitive robot, but he admits that she only knows 13,000 sentences and that she must learn any new thing she didn't know before, and that her conversational level is of that of a very simple 10 year old.

I still think it's creepy that he describes her as the "perfect woman," but I think the fact that he lists her positive attributes as speaking and reading both English and Japanese and being able to do math as much more flattering than Cosmo Guy's "perfect woman" from yesterday.

Leave the poor nerd alone!
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Breamworthy
12/10/08

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That video is staged! At one point, she answers his question before he asks it. She says something about what kind of music she likes, then he asks her what kind of music she likes.
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SarahMC
12/10/08

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"Unlike REAL women, Aiko comes when I push her orgasms button in a short sequence of pre-programmed steps."

I hope he doesn't find a way to impregnate her.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/10/08

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Although as a true Futurama fan, I'm also inclined to ask, didn't he see the video in health class? Don't Date Robots!
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BicSharpie
12/10/08

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I had a similar idea about a year ago. Only I didn't have anywhere close $20,000 to spend, so I just wound up buying an iRoomba, a CB radio, and a FleshLight.
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DangerMouse
12/10/08

@BicSharpie: Throw in an old-school tape recorder with messages in a girl's voice and you're good to go.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/10/08

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(also, the article says he's 33, not 22)
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/10/08

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Won't all his other dolls get jealous? Click through to The Sun's page and check out the china cabinet in the background!!
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StatisticalError
12/10/08

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Talk about a guy who just really needs to get laid.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
12/10/08

@StatisticalError: Give him a few weeks and that extra part he had to have imported from Germany... he'll get laid.
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Breamworthy
12/10/08

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Wait, he's 22 and he had a heart attack last year? And he's already a "former" software engineer?
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Breamworthy
12/10/08

@Breamworthy: Okay, I checked the original article and he's 33, not 22. But still.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
12/10/08

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What a wimp. So threatened by actual women that he can't form a meaningful relationship with one and spends his time on this. I suppose I should at least be glad he's taken himself out of the gene pool.
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