The relationship between man and machine

Communication optimization is improving man-machine relations. We work hard to interact with machines intuitively. Touch-sensitive and facial recognition devices are common because of this.

Elderly care robots must instill trust. Anthropomorphism began at MIT in 1997. The desire to give machines emotions to match human emotions and moods. The machine then detects emotions (verbal or non-verbal). Her interlocutor can relax with humour.

Trust requires even a simulated empathy. This concept goes beyond robots. If our computer spoke to us, it would help us be patient when it starts up slowly.

This dialogue facilitation makes machines less intrusive. Humanized machine. We almost thank Alexa for responding.

As mentioned, optimising human-machine interaction humanises the latter. The valley of the strange limits humanization (or disturbing valley). Invented in the 1970s by roboticist Masahiro Mori, it states that humans become disturbed by machines that resemble humans.

Simply put, the more a robot resembles a human, the more its key differences from us (no heartbeat, no breath, rather neutral voice) make us uncomfortable. Thus, a user will be more comfortable with a clearly artificial robot than one with skin, clothes, and a face.

In the valley of the strange, robots are considered humans with abnormal behaviour. Thus, the machine must not be too humanised to inspire confidence or too humanised to be confused with a real person. Nao and Pepper, robots with few human traits, were designed this way.

Living things are a set of elements or organs with coordinated functions. A machine is a set of parts that move.

Descartes believes humans are machines. “When a watch marks the hours by means of the wheels of which it is made, it is no less natural for it than for a tree to produce its fruit,” he says. The Cartesian mechanism compares humans to machines.

Technology is more affordable and usable. Our electronics get smaller, more powerful, and cheaper. Machine efficiency becomes more important. We're rushing more. Only a few years ago, our computer booted in two minutes.

We search for the most efficient devices, which are becoming obsolete faster.

This requires machine trust. The machine has more features and responsibilities. We trust him to complete this mission.

Technology doesn't always inspire confidence. The internet will give a "doctor-machine" access to all diagnosis-symptom pairs, while a real doctor will only have seen a few hundred cases. Most people believe the human element is essential in social fields like medicine.

Another example: planes' automatic pilots are more efficient than humans. Why do we have a pilot? Because the human can act in a passenger conflict, but mostly because we trust humans more than machines.

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