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Google patents robots with personalities in first step towards the singularity
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-patents-robots-with-personalities-in-first-step-towards-the-singularity-10151817.htmlBy CHRISTOPHER HOOTON
Thursday 02 April 2015
Google has been awarded a patent for the 'methods and systems for robot personality development', a glimpse at a future where robots react based on data they mine from us and hopefully don't unite and march on city hall.
The company outlines a process by which personalities could be downloaded from the cloud to "provide states or moods representing transitory conditions of happiness, fear, surprise, perplexion, thoughtfulness, derision and so forth. "
Its futuristic vision seems to be not of a personalised robot for each human but a set of personality traits that can be transferred between different robots.
"The personality and state may be shared with other robots so as to clone this robot within another device or devices," it said in the patent.
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Maybe I should try to patent the concept of soft skin for robots... 
