As if it wasn’t creepy enough that someone created a humanoid robot named Ameca that has the ability to make a series of extremely human-like facial expressions, now Ameca is having conversations with other lifelike humanoid robots.
Ameca, created by U.K. design company Engineered Arts, is referred to by the company as the “world’s most advanced” humanoid robot. The company has also called Ameca “the perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction.”
Interacting with humans is one thing. Interacting with other human-like robots? That’s a whole other thing.
Using Chat-GPT, Ameca and another humanoid robot named Azi can carry on a conversation, complete with all of the appropriate facial expressions.
In the video of the robots’ conversation, Ameca gets “woken” up by Azi who tries to tell a joke.
When it falls flat, Ameca says “this is the worst joke I ever heard, she turns very nasty and threatens Azi to not wake her up again with dumb jokes like that.
Poor Azi looks very …