Questions
- What is your favorite movie robot? How would you describe its personality?
- What techniques did the movie-makers use to express that robot's personality (body language, sounds, and so on)?
- What are the two types of chatbots? List some of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
- In the diagram on modeling custom distributions (the airport example), the bottom picture shows two standard distributions and two uniform distributions. Why don't the curves go all the way to the top of the graph?
- Design your own robot emotions. Pick six contrasting emotions that can express the entire range of your robot's personality. Why did you pick those?
- If you were designing a robot to have the personality of an annoying little boy (think Bart Simpson, Cartman, or Dennis the Menace, if you are that old), what traits would it have?
- Why is it important for the robot to have a backstory or biography?
For the next two questions, pick a persona from my list to model (from the Integrating artificial personality...
