{"id":101612,"date":"2025-08-29T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101612\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:25:07","slug":"chatgpt-powered-dolls-are-becoming-caregivers-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101612\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT-powered dolls are becoming caregivers in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI chatbots are increasingly being used for companionship, but a South Korean municipality took it one step further by providing elderly residents living alone a <a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2025\/korea-ai-robot-senior-care-hyodol\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT-powered doll<\/a> that keeps them company and monitors their health, Rest of World reported. <\/p>\n<p>Developed by South Korean startup Hyodol, the dolls remind residents to take medication and eat, and they notify family members when their sensors detect an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>For busy caretakers who can\u2019t be with every client all day, the dolls act as a first line of defense, monitoring their mental states and sending reports to the caretakers about patients in need of assistance. The rise of companionship robots comes at a time when caretaking costs are increasing and many elderly people suffer from loneliness. Robots can help mitigate both issues, though they also raise concerns that impersonal relationships actually lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/06\/loneliness-insomnia-ai-systems\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">individuals to become more isolated<\/a>, preferring interactions with AI to those with humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI chatbots are increasingly being used for companionship, but a South Korean municipality took it one step further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-101612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}