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An AI-powered humanoid robot was spotted mingling with real people in Brooklyn Bridge Park Sunday, in an apparent attempt to learn how to “interact” and “nurture” so it could eventually be used as a babysitter, teacher or companion, its chaperone told The Post.
The robot was designed by California-based company Faraday Future, according to Chief Technology Officer Hong Rao, who was operating the $89,000 robot with a small remote control as he spoke to a Post photographer.
Many parkgoers appeared unfazed by the life-sized bot as it walked around the park, sang to children, danced with people, and took in the view of Manhattan, video showed.
A dozen beaming women even posed for a photo with the bot, framed between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
Brooklyn Bridge Park has seemingly become a hotspot for the AI bots, as one was spotted playing with kids there in March, according to The Independent.
Sunday’s dystopian scene came a month after a Nobel Prize-winning artificial intelligence expert warned Congress that humans must either befriend increasingly “conscious” robots or face extinction.
AI robots have already been linked to war, sex assaults and worker displacement.
