PaPeRo gets blogging software; Engadget one step closer to full automation

Now we were always under the impression that a personal blog is supposed to be just that -- personal -- so we're not sure that we see the advantages of bringing a robot in to automate this process by filling your site with multimedia content that it thinks you'd want to share with the rest of the world. Nonetheless, NEC has done exactly that with its little cannibalistic PaPeRo bot (you know, the one that thinks humans taste like bacon), endowing it with AI software that recognizes certain keywords uttered during a conversation with its master and then scours the net for seemingly-related pics, vids, and tunes. Scheduled to be unveiled at 13th Annual Conference of the Association of Natural Language Processing later this month in Japan, the newly-spec'ed PaPeRo will be tasked with listening to you talk about your boring day at work ("So I commuted the eight feet from bed to desk, blogged all morning, ate lunch, blogged some more, ate dinner, and then blogged until bedtime."), and then turning your page into what we can only imagine will be a blinking, flashing, slow-loading lookalike of some teen's gaudy MySpace. Just be careful what you talk about from now on, because PaPeRo may be listening, and the last thing you want on your blog is a visual representation of that thing you've been doing to your coworkers' coffee every morning for the last eight weeks.

[Via Digital World Tokyo]

[ciscoguerrero @ Mar 5th 2007 2:51PM]

wow! Endgadget Head honchos, Think of the savings! This robot can first EAT all the bloggers, bacon....hmmmm...(so no pesky termination expenses) and then produce the Engadget blogs all over the place.

[JC @ Mar 5th 2007 1:49PM]

Wake me up when I can get a robot that looks like the girl.

[Ken @ Mar 5th 2007 5:41PM]

"PaPeRo here with today's blog. Today my mistress wore a hot pink top and tight jeans. As she carried me to Algebra held against her bosom, she flirted with the guy who looks like a young Eric Bana. She didn't finish all her nigiri during lunch, but drank down the entire Diet Pepsi in a few gulps..."

[Normal @ Mar 5th 2007 2:33PM]

I want the girl model PaPeRo as well. Knowing the Japanese, it will be out in 10 years.

[Christian Martin @ Mar 5th 2007 2:27PM]

So, I should look for my application to be File 13'ed, as PaPeRo can probably write articles better than my IQ-somewhere-between-plakton-and-toaster-oven drivel?

Mmm, baaacon...

[Nehemoth @ Mar 5th 2007 6:05PM]

I don't care about that robot, but that Girl is gorgeous.

[Juice @ Mar 5th 2007 2:45PM]

French tips are extra!

[JC @ Mar 5th 2007 3:12PM]

Wow, your copy/paste skills are l33t.

[Zeb @ Mar 5th 2007 3:13PM]

Sorry Keith, but I didnt read your entire post.

[Kevlar @ Mar 5th 2007 3:17PM]

"My computer heard us say the word "Fry" and it found this video on Phillip J Fry. It also opened my calendar to Friday and ordered us some French Fries."

[Albert van Breemen @ Mar 5th 2007 3:39PM]

NICE! No privacy anymore! If PaPeRo gets an emotions chips and starts disliking its owner, it just start publishing all kind of information! :)

Albert
http://www.personalrobotics.nl

[Brad @ Mar 5th 2007 3:47PM]

Could someone please make her the official Engadget babe?

[Phred @ Mar 5th 2007 5:05PM]

Of course, the next step after full automation is world domination.

[something about blogging overlords...]

[js @ Mar 5th 2007 7:24PM]

So, which one is the robot?

[js @ Mar 5th 2007 7:25PM]

BTW, I, for one, welcome our friendly blogging PaPeRO overlords.

[Eriq @ Mar 5th 2007 10:09PM]

Forget the robot. I want the girl lol

[thetarget @ Mar 6th 2007 1:28AM]

oh god.. the girl

[steve @ Mar 6th 2007 11:52AM]

@1 - Eh? I thought that "girl" in pink was the robot. I didn't see anything else in the pic!

[Brian Laks @ Mar 6th 2007 6:15PM]

She's much more attractive than Kokoro's actroid robot receptionist. Though the folks at Waseda have been working on a stunning beauty. The toy next to her looks like it was made from a recycled Mac monitor... I guess if we teach the robots to think, they're inevitably going to vent their anger over our abusive treatment of them. A blog seems reasonable.