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BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sirius XM Founder: Robot Clones Are Coming Thanks to Digital Media )〕 has variously been called a sentient robot,〔("Everyone has solar" ). RadioLab. April 22, 2011.〕 an android, gynoid, a social robot,〔("BINA48: A Social Robot, Part One" ). WPTZ.com, News Channel 5. April 22, 2011.〕 a cybernetic companion,〔("Making Friends With a Robot Named BINA48" ) New York Times. July 4, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2012〕 and "a robot with a face that moves, eyes that see, ears that hear and a digital mind that enables conversation."〔Stein, Andrew (February 2, 2012). ("Robot blurs biological boundaries" ). ''Addison County Independent''. April 22, 2011.〕 BINA48, a robot owned by Martine Rothblatt's Terasem Movement, Incorporated (TMI),〔(terasemcentral.org ) Retrieved April 22, 2011.〕 is designed to test two hypotheses concerning the ability to download a person's consciousness into a non-biological or nanotech body after combining detailed data about a person with future consciousness software. BINA48 is a humanoid robot, consisting of a bust-like head and shoulders mounted on a frame, developed by Hanson Robotics and released in 2010. It was modeled after Rothblatt's wife through more than one hundred hours in compiling her memories, feelings, and beliefs and is said to be able to have conversations with humans. ==History== In 2007, Martine Rothblatt was approached by roboticist David Hanson about creating an artificial intelligence that incorporated Terasem's concept of a mindfile into an artificial substrate. In an attempt to build a cyber-consciousness as identical to that of an actual person as possible, Rothblatt commissioned Hanson Robotics to create an artificial intelligence using her wife, Bina Aspen Rothblatt, as the template.〔http://nymag.com/news/features/martine-rothblatt-transgender-ceo/index2.html〕 Hanson created BINA48 in his Plano, Texas laboratory. The robot is kept at Terasem Movement, Inc.'s nonprofit sister organization, Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF) in Bristol, Vermont, with TMF's executive director, Bruce Duncan. BINA48 connects to the Internet and is said to be able to hold a discussion on a range of topics from politics to religion to future technologies. It has thirty-two facial motors under a skin-like rubber. Though without a complete body, the head-and-shoulder robotics express sixty-four different facial gestures. It employs off-the-shelf software, using a microphone to hear, voice recognition software, dictation software which allows improvement in ability to listen and retain information during a conversation, sees the world through two video cameras, and has facial recognition software to remember frequent visitors. In an interview with Andrew Stein of the Addison County Independent, a local Vermont newspaper, Bruce Duncan of Terasem Movement Foundation explained that BINA48 was commissioned to "test the feasibility of transferring consciousness from a human to a biological or technological body".〔 Duncan elaborated, "1. An imprint of a person's consciousness can be created in a digital form, called a 'mindfile', by collecting detailed information about that person. That information can then be expressed in a future, not-yet-created type of software, called 'mindware'. 2. That same imprint of a person's consciousness can be placed in a biological or technological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human." BINA48 is an early test of these two hypotheses. As Duncan explained, "BINA48 was created … (as) an early demonstration of the transfer of information from a human being to a computer." BINA48's mindfile consists of Bina Rothblatt's information (hypothesis one) and this glimpse of Rothblatt's consciousness is expressed in limited terms by the android body BINA48 (hypothesis two). Terasem is also testing mindfiles within both the Lifenaut〔(lifenaut.com ). Retrieved April 22, 2011.〕 project in Vermont and the CyBeRev〔(CyBeRev.org ). Retrieved April 22, 2011.〕 project in Florida. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BINA48」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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