The NEC PaPeRo — the robot we love to hate because, well, it doesn’t exist except in the land of press relations and tech blog photo ops — is once again in the land of PR and photo ops! When last we left our intrepid proto-PerRo, it was sniffing our food and tasting our booze. Now it’s allegedly going to do our blogging for us. At the next meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing, NEC is going to show off its AI software that can home in on keywords in conversation, go on the Net to fetch content related to those words, and blog the results. Which, like the food and beverage testing, and a bunch of other things that PaPeRo has not done in the real world, this has nothing whatsoever to do with this robotics platform except its a cute casemod for the PC that NEC is testing these wares on. And it leads to idiots like me doing blog items on it showing pics of the lovable little Weeble interacting with cute Asian chicks in lo-rise. Everybody’s happy.
