Its was un interesting and well delivered presentation. Even though the presentation took longer than usually, I was really invested in it because you kept us engaged and the fact that the topic was really intriguing.

Great presentation !

I think it establishes a welcoming and comfortable environment for the elderly people. This does eliminate the personal human interaction between humans.

This is the prequel to the movie I Robot.

The fact that a nurse will be controlling the robot seems very clever. this could be a way for the nurses to overlook the medical care of the patient. Perhaps in the future there will be robots able to administer medication.

The solution to loneliness has direction correlation to the societal settings of the industrialized worlds. The practice of nuclear family sets closely related families together. In African societies, brothers and brothers’ wives live together and are considered closely related families, but this is not the case advanced world.

If you need a nurse to operate it, what is the need for the robot? why can’t the nurse attend to the elderly? are there any plans to creating an artificial intelligence so Zora wouldn’t need to be operated by a nurse?

Has the company who made the Zora software ever made their own robot or is their focus solely on the virtual application side?

How in-depth can Zora get with its conversation?

Could this be considered as a hindrance to real life interaction?

How long it takes to build these kind of robots and how much do they cost to buy?

Hashir Qureshi

This seems like an interesting type of machine learning, as the computer is taking the words of the writer and generates words that start to make sense, such that it simply imitates other authors. however, the drawback that he discussed makes even more sense. Writing is something that you can put your words in your own creative way. there is no one else who can really replicate it. and if novelists begin to use this type of machine learning, wouldn’t the works be rather bland? and even if the works aren’t, wouldn’t these novelist slowly lose the ability to have their own creative thoughts and write them down?

Ricardo Sandy

this seems like a problem, since People that protest in LIC are protesting against Amazon to not build their HQ2 here. the people there realize that Amazon will not hire the people who live there and rather bring other people into these communities.