Kate Darling

And then we did this like online poll.

We used Mechanical Turk and we tried to get at what people don't like about Marty.

And a lot of it wasn't, oh, Marty's taking jobs.

It was Marty is the surveillance robot, which it's not.

It looks for spills on the floor.

It doesn't.

Actually, like look at any people.

It's watching, it's creepy, it's getting in the way.

Those were the things that people complained about.

And so our hypothesis became, is Marty a real life Clippy?

Because I know Lex, you love Clippy, but many people hated Clippy once.

But I think you hit on what exactly it is because when it comes to robots or artificial agents, I think people hate them more than they would some other machine or device or object.

And it might be that thing, it might be combined with love or like whatever it is, it's a more extreme response because they view these things as social agents.

and not objects.

And that was... So Clifford Nass was a big human-computer interaction person, and his theory about Clippy was that because people viewed Clippy as a social agent, when Clippy was annoying and would, like, bother them and interrupt them and, like, not remember what they told Clippy,

him that's when people got upset because it wasn't fulfilling their social expectations and so they complained about clippy more than they would have if it had been a different like not an not a you know virtual character

I think we absolutely can find deep, meaningful relationships with robots.

Well, maybe with Marty.

I mean, I just would, I would have designed Marty a little differently.

Like how?