Artifact 4

The first part of this artifact was very interesting to me because when I first saw the woman I thought that she was definitely real.  Then it was quickly easy to realize that she was a robot because she was mimicking everything that the guy was doing into the camera.  I had no idea that we were so advanced with robots now days that they look exactly like a real person.  That scares me when i think about it because it seems like in a few years that they will become so advanced that we will not even know that they are walking among us and if it is so extreme that we end up flirting with robots thinking that they are real hotties when, in reality, they are not even real humans.  This great advancement in the production of robots could serve as a great weapon for whatever country decides to start replacing their real human troops on the front lines with robot troops.  It would be great because it would save many lives for whatever side of a conflict decides to use them to fight the most devestating wars.  The second video seemed very fishy to me because I think there is a lot more to it then just showing off a pencil sharpener.  It seemed like the only advanced thing about the pencil sharpener was that it could get your pencil to a slightly sharper point than some of the other pencil sharpeners that were made before it did.  That made me think that there had to be something a lot deeper into the video than the sharpener.  I studied the man's hands in the video and they looked very pale and sort of abnormal.  The voice, while sounding very realistic, did sound a little bit like an automated voice.  These two observations have led me to believe that the man in that video that was showing off the pencil sharpener was a robot.  I do not know for a fact that my belief is true but it certainly seemed like that had to be the reason behind watching a short little video about a pencil sharpener.  I tried to look at everything in the video to make sure that I did not miss any other obvious clues of what the video was really about.  The hands and the voice were really the only thing that caught my attention in the two times that I watched it so even though it may not be wrong, that is the only conclusion that I could really come up with.  If this is the case and there is a robot doing this video, then it is hard to believe that we have advanced to robots being on videos with it being almost impossible to even notice it.  Once robots continue to become even more real, more readily available, and a lot cheaper then companys might start buying just one of them to do all of their commercials so that in the long run it will save them money because they will never have to pay human actors to do the job.  I can definitely see many companies taking advantage of this and we could see this become a new trend possibly even within the next decade.