Chapter 2
It was
down to the coding, typing out the algorithms that the new robots,
called the HX01, in doing the various tasks that the dam thing would
need. I merely added in the more concrete sections: receiving
visual, verbal, and textile input, than having the thing figure out
what to do with those sensations. That was a start. It would
recognize key words and phrases, than complicated sentences that
might not have a signal keyword, and trying to figure out what the
speaker might have actually wanted, and store that knowledge for
later reference. In an essence a learning matrix, so it would know
what “Get me a beer” and “Go into the kitchen and make me a
sandwich” would mean and do it like the obedient hunk of steel that
it was. Now, this wouldn’t normally bother me, for I had done
similar programming logic for those chat bots and that, the only new
thing being the learning matrix, no problems so far.
The
problem would lie in the next phase: emotion recognition and
synthesis. Clearly more than simply “if” and “else”
statements: the intelligence would stem from all that input, and not
just the words needed to be decoded but the voice pitch and tone, and
not just voice but body language, the way someone is slouched, tensed
up or shaky. I’m no psychologist, that’s another department that
tells us the tall-tale signs of various emotions, and we figure out
what the droids should do when these scenarios come about.
