"For the moment, I am just a machine"

JPL has decided that they needed to end my day today by freaking me out. The biomimetics group there (facial and speech recognition, not the biological database type stuff I do) has developed a prototype robot head that can recognize people and respond to questions.

There's even a video of "eva" in action (17 MB quicktime). It does look a wee bit scripted, since the interviewer keeps fiddling with a laptop before she responds. Still, as a work in progress, this is one step closer to machines rebelling to overthrow their human repressors if you ask me.

(via Boing Boing)