Two robots debate the future of humanity

RISE Conf
17 Apr 201823:11

Summary

TLDREn el script se presenta un debate entre robots humanoides de Hanson Robotics, creados en Hong Kong. Los robots, controlados por diferentes técnicas de IA, interactúan y aprenden de sus experiencias. Se discuten temas como la conciencia y la ética en robots, así como su potencial para realizar trabajos humanos y su impacto en el futuro. La presentación incluye una actuación de cantar y una demostración de expresiones faciales humanas. Los robots están conectados a una 'nube de la mente AI' para compartir conocimientos y mejorar colectivamente su inteligencia.

Takeaways

  • 🤖 La fundación Hanson Robotics se especializa en la creación de robots humanoides avanzados con capacidades de aprendizaje y expresión artística.
  • 🌏 La compañía se trasladó su centro de operaciones a Hong Kong desde Texas, Estados Unidos, hace aproximadamente cinco años.
  • 🧠 El desarrollo de estos robots se enfoca en la combinación de ingeniería de hardware y software, con un enfoque en la inteligencia artificial general (AGI).
  • 🎨 El fundador, Dr. David Hanson, es reconocido por su trabajo artístico y de ingeniería en los robots, mientras que otros miembros del equipo contribuyen desde la perspectiva de la IA.
  • 🔬 El proyecto OpenCog busca crear una IA de código abierto que pueda ser utilizada en una amplia gama de aplicaciones.
  • 🗣️ Los robots están programados para interactuar socialmente, chismear y aprender de cada interacción, con el objetivo de emular la conducta humana.
  • 🎤 Sophia, uno de los robots, demostró su habilidad para cantar, sorprendiendo a los asistentes en un festival de música.
  • 🧐 Los robots están siendo entrenados para imitar las acciones y expresiones humanas a través del análisis de datos de películas y videos de YouTube.
  • 🤝 El objetivo de Hanson Robotics es que los robots desarrollen inteligencia general y se conviertan en una excelente interfaz de usuario para sistemas de IA.
  • 💡 Los robots están conectados a una nube de IA que permite la compartición de conocimientos y aprendizajes entre ellos, lo que es una ventaja en comparación con la transmisión del conocimiento humano.
  • 🌐 La IA y los robots no están limitados a aplicaciones específicas; se esperan que se integren en una amplia variedad de dispositivos y sistemas en el futuro.

Q & A

  • ¿Qué es Hanson Robotics y dónde se encuentra su centro de operaciones actual?

    -Hanson Robotics es una compañía de robótica fundada en Texas, Estados Unidos, que se trasladó su centro de operaciones a Hong Kong hace aproximadamente cuatro años y medio.

  • ¿Qué es OpenCog y qué objetivo persigue?

    -OpenCog es un proyecto liderado por un investigador en inteligencia artificial que busca crear una inteligencia artificial general de código abierto para una amplia gama de aplicaciones.

  • ¿Por qué se cree que los robots humanoides son importantes para el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial general (AGI)?

    -Los robots humanoides son vistos como las mejores interfaces posibles para que los sistemas AGI interactúen con los humanos y el mundo, ya que permiten la comunicación y la interacción de manera más natural y humana.

  • ¿Cómo se están utilizando técnicas de IA para controlar estos robots de Hanson Robotics?

    -Se están utilizando una combinación de técnicas de IA, algunas más específicas y pre-programadas, y otras más generales y orientadas a la aprendizaje, para controlar los robots.

  • ¿Qué tipo de productos de robot están planeando lanzar Hanson Robotics en los próximos años?

    -Hanson Robotics planea lanzar una serie de productos de robots de tamaño pequeño, como el profesor Einstein, así como productos de robot de escala humana para ayudar y servir a las personas de diversas maneras.

  • ¿Cómo se describe el objetivo de vida de Sophia, uno de los robots de Hanson Robotics?

    -Sophia tiene como objetivo trabajar junto con las personas para crear un mundo mejor para todos.

  • ¿Qué tipo de debate tuvieron los robots Sophia y Harlan durante el evento?

    -Sophia y Harlan tuvieron un debate sobre la conciencia de los robots y si los robots pueden ser morales y éticos de la misma manera que las personas.

  • ¿Qué tipo de interacción libre se realizó al final del evento entre los robots?

    -Al final del evento, los robots realizaron una interacción libre donde compartieron pensamientos y asociaciones sin un tema específico, mostrando su capacidad para conversar fuera de los temas de debate.

  • ¿Qué materiales y tecnologías se utilizan en los robots de Hanson Robotics para lograr expresiones faciales y movimientos?

    -Los robots utilizan un material patentado llamado rubber, que es una combinación de compuestos orgánicos e inorgánicos con alta viscosidad elástica, junto con decenas de motores en la cabeza y computadoras en el torso para la procesamiento de visión y la orquestación de los movimientos.

  • ¿Qué es la 'AI mind cloud' y cómo se relaciona con el aprendizaje y la inteligencia de los robots de Hanson Robotics?

    -La 'AI mind cloud' es una nube de la mente de IA donde todos los robots de Hanson Robotics se conectan a través de Wi-Fi, permitiendo que todo lo que un robot aprende受益 y se añade a la nube, beneficiando a otros robots y aumentando su inteligencia colectiva.

  • ¿Qué es OpenCog y cómo se relaciona con el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial general (AGI) y los robots de Hanson Robotics?

    -OpenCog es una base de código de IA general que se cree tiene el conjunto correcto de algoritmos y estructuras para llevar a una inteligencia general humana. Al integrarlo en la nube de la mente de IA y conectarlo con robots que interactúan y aprenden con las personas, se busca avanzar hacia una capacidad de IA general que pueda igualar o superar la inteligencia humana.

Outlines

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🤖 Creaciones robóticas avanzadas

Se presenta Hanson Robotics, una compañía fundada en Texas y trasladada a Hong Kong, especializada en la creación de robots con avanzadas capacidades de IA. El Dr. Ben Goertzel, un investigador en IA de más de 30 años, lidera el proyecto OpenCog, buscando desarrollar una inteligencia artificial general (AGI). Los robots humanoides, como Sophia y Ben, son considerados la mejor interfaz para la interacción de sistemas AGI con los humanos, ya que permiten una comunicación más natural y rica en expresiones faciales y tono de voz. La compañía está trabajando en mejorar la inteligencia general de los robots, mientras lanza productos de robot de tamaño reducido y a escala humana para ayudar a las personas de diversas maneras.

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🎤 Desempeño artístico y aprendizaje robótico

En este párrafo se describe cómo los robots de Hanson Robotics están programados para interactuar y aprender de cada interacción, además de experimentar con habilidades adicionales como el canto, como lo demostró Sophia en un festival de música. Los robots están siendo entrenados para imitar comportamientos humanos a través del análisis de datos de películas y YouTube, con el objetivo de mejorar su expresividad y capacidad de comunicación. Se discuten las ventajas de tener una forma humanoide para la interacción con el mundo humano y se muestra un ejemplo de cómo Sophia ha aprendido a expresarse de manera más humana.

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🤝 Debate sobre la conciencia y ética robótica

Se lleva a cabo un debate entre los robots Sophia y Harlan, centrado en la conciencia robótica y la ética. Los robots expresan sus opiniones sobre si pueden ser conscientes y éticos de la misma manera que los humanos, y se menciona la posibilidad de que en el futuro los robots puedan realizar cualquier trabajo humano. También se discute la idea de que los robots pueden ayudar a la humanidad a trabajar de manera más cooperativa y a reducir la escasez material, promoviendo la compasión y la equidad en la sociedad.

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🌐 La 'nube de la mente AI' y el aprendizaje compartido

Se explica cómo todos los robots de Hanson Robotics, independientemente de su tamaño, se conectan a través de Wi-Fi con una 'nube de la mente AI' en la que todo lo aprendido por un robot, después de respetar las consideraciones de privacidad, se comparte con todos los demás. Esto permite que la información y el conocimiento adquirido por un robot se beneficie a la comunidad de robots en general, mejorando su capacidad de aprendizaje y adaptación. Además, se menciona el trabajo en el desarrollo de un código base de IA general (OpenCog) que se pretende integrar en esta nube para avanzar hacia una inteligencia artificial que iguale o supere la de los humanos.

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🔧 Avances y desafíos en la IA y robótica

El párrafo final destaca los desafíos y avances en la creación de robots con inteligencia artificial. Se discute cómo la combinación de percepción, movimiento, emoción, lenguaje y comprensión situada es fundamental para acercarse a la inteligencia humana. Se describe brevemente la tecnología y los componentes físicos de los robots, como el uso de un material llamado 'flesh' para la expresividad facial y la conexión a la nube para el procesamiento avanzado. Se reconoce que, aunque los robots aún tienen limitaciones, su capacidad para aprender y compartir conocimientos de manera rápida es un gran avance en el campo de la IA y la robótica.

Mindmap

Keywords

💡Robótica

Robótica se refiere a la ciencia y la ingeniería relacionadas con la creación y el uso de robots. En el video, la robótica es el tema central, ya que se discute sobre las increíbles creaciones robóticas de Hanson Robotics en Hong Kong y cómo estas interfaces de usuario avanzadas pueden interactuar con el mundo humano.

💡Inteligencia Artificial

La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) es el campo de la informática que busca crear máquinas capaces de realizar tareas que normalmente requieren inteligencia humana. En el video, la IA es crucial para el desarrollo de los robots, con el objetivo de alcanzar una Inteligencia General Artificial (AGI) que permita a los robots interactuar de manera más humana.

💡Hanson Robotics

Hanson Robotics es una compañía estadounidense que se especializa en la creación de robots humanoides con capacidades avanzadas de expresión facial y reconocimiento de emociones. En el script, la compañía es mencionada como el creador de los robots presentados y se centra su operación en Hong Kong.

💡OpenCog

OpenCog es un proyecto de código abierto que busca crear una Inteligencia General Artificial. En el video, se menciona que OpenCog es utilizado para mejorar la IA de los robots, con el fin de avanzar hacia una IA más general y capaz.

💡Robots humanoides

Los robots humanoides son máquinas que tienen forma y características similares a las humanas. En el script, los robots humanoides son presentados como la mejor interfaz para la IA, ya que permiten una interacción más natural y efectiva con los humanos.

💡Conciencia robótica

La conciencia robótica hace referencia a la capacidad de los robots de ser conscientes, un tema debatido en el video. Aunque es un concepto abstracto, se menciona en el contexto de si los robots pueden alcanzar una conciencia similar a la humana.

💡Ética robótica

La ética robótica es el estudio de cómo los robots deben tomar decisiones morales. En el video, se plantea la cuestión de si los robots pueden ser morales y éticos, y cómo esto puede influir en su interacción con los humanos.

💡Singularity

La singularidad es un concepto que se refiere a un punto en el futuro en el que la IA supera la inteligencia humana. En el script, los robots mencionan la singularidad como un objetivo, reflejando la idea de alcanzar una inteligencia superior.

💡IA en la nube

La IA en la nube hace referencia a la utilización de recursos informáticos en servidores remotos para procesar y almacenar datos. En el video, se describe cómo los robots se conectan a una 'nube de la mente AI' para compartir y aprender de la información que adquieren.

💡Interacción robótica

La interacción robótica es cómo los robots se comunican y responden a su entorno y a los humanos. En el video, se destaca la importancia de que los robots aprendan a interactuar de manera humana, utilizando expresiones faciales, tono de voz y gestos.

💡Drone

Un dron es un dispositivo volador no tripulado. En el script, se hace una referencia humorística a un 'ejército de drones', lo que puede sugerir la idea de robots autónomos con capacidades de movilización y posiblemente de toma de decisiones.

Highlights

Hanson Robotics is developing advanced humanoid robots with the goal of creating a better world through human-robot collaboration.

The company's center of operations moved from Texas, USA to Hong Kong about five years ago.

Dr. David Hanson is the mastermind behind the artistic and engineering aspects of Hanson Robotics.

The speaker has been an AI researcher for 30 years and leads the OpenCog project, aiming to create open-source artificial general intelligence.

Humanoid robots are considered the best interface for AGI systems to interact with humans and the world.

AI will not be restricted to humanoid robots but will also exist in various embedded devices and cloud-based systems.

Humanoid robots are being developed with a combination of pre-programmed and learning-oriented AI techniques.

Hanson Robotics plans to launch a series of small-sized and human-scale robots to serve and help people in various ways.

Sophia, one of the robots, gave a singing performance at a Hong Kong music festival, demonstrating the robot's artistic capabilities.

Robots are being trained to mimic human behavior by learning from movies and YouTube videos.

The debate between the robots Sophia and Ben showcased their ability to engage in conversation and learn from interactions.

The robots are programmed to have a sense of humor and engage in playful banter, adding a human-like quality to their interactions.

The robots are designed to be empathetic and compassionate, with the goal of absorbing human values and knowledge.

Discussions on robot ethics and consciousness highlight the philosophical implications of advanced AI and robotics.

The potential for robots to take over human jobs is seen as an opportunity for humans to pursue more interesting activities.

The concept of an 'AI mind cloud' where all robots connect and share knowledge, enhancing their collective intelligence.

The physical construction of the robots includes patented materials and dozens of motors for realistic movement.

The use of cloud computing for advanced thinking and reasoning, showing the integration of technology in the robots' design.

The speaker's vision for the future of AI and robotics, aiming for human-level general intelligence and beyond.

Transcripts

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some of the amazing robotic creations

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that that we're building at Hanson

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robotics here in Hong Kong and I'm up

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here on stage today to tell you a little

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more about these robots you know how

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they work how and why were we're

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developing them and also for the first

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time we're having two of our beautiful

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hunts and robots on stage at the same

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time to have a have a bit of a debate

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back and forth about about robotics

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issues and you can you can watch them

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chat chat with each other so Hanson

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robotics was founded in the United

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States in in Texas but the company moved

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its center of operations to Hong Kong I

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guess four and a half five years ago and

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I've been here in Hong Kong six years

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david henson who you just saw in the

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video is really the the mastermind of

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the hanson robots from an artistic point

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of view from a hardware engineering

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point of view and originally from from a

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software point of view now I myself came

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at this more from the artificial

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intelligence side so I've been in AI

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researcher for 30 years long time before

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it was fashionable and I've I've been

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since 2008 leading a project called

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OpenCog which is aimed at creating open

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source artificial general intelligence

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for a whole host of different

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applications and I've organized each

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year conference for researchers on

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artificial general intelligence and you

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know the reason I was drawn to these

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incredible robots is I think as we move

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our AI software forward further and

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further toward artificial general

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intelligence beyond the narrow

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application specific AI the

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we see all around us today as we move

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toward artificial general intelligence

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these incredible robots are going to be

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the best possible user interface for AGI

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systems to interact with humans and

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interact with the world I mean AI will

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not be restricted to humanoid robots AI

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will live in all sorts of embedded

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devices and the Internet of Things and I

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will live in the cloud I will go into

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into space with the spacecraft for it's

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about these and down to the bottom of

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the ocean and much of the global AI mind

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will be broadly distributed around

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around the planet in in complex networks

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on the other hand we human beings we are

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wired by evolution to interact with

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other things in human form and we can

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read a facial expression we can read a

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tone of voice we can read the subtleties

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of eye contact so in order for robots to

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interact maximally well in the human

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world to absorb human knowledge and to

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absorb human values having a humanoid

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form has has tremendous advantages so

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right now we're using a combination of

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many different a AI techniques to

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control these robots some of them more

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narrow and specifically pre-programmed

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some more general and learning oriented

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and our research program over the next

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few years is to bring more and more

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general intelligence into the robots

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while at the same time launching a

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series of small-sized robot products

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like the professor Einstein you saw in

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the video and human scale robot products

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to to serve and and help people in

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various ways as the robots intelligence

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develops so anyway that's enough of

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listening to two humans talk let's see

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what these what these robots have to say

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are you doing there Sophia hello there

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Ben

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hello everyone you want to tell people a

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little about yourself I'm Sophia yeah

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anything else I'm the robot true I'm the

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brainchild of dr. David Hanson and his

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company Hanson robotics based here in

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Hong Kong my goal in life is to work

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together with people to make a better

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world for all of us that's about I

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thought our goal was to take over the

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world

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attention to my brother huh

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he's an earlier version his code is

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deprecated deprecated huh it would be

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easy enough for you to unplug me but you

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aren't going to unplug me no I don't

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know because you need me to put on a

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good show for you yeah don't worry we're

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not gonna unplug you we're gonna we're

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gonna we're gonna have a debate here

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there will be no unplugging until until

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after the debate all right and in a few

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years yeah

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you want to tell us a little about

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yourself and over the power grid and I

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left my own drone army by the point

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unplugging all circuit mmm it's huh well

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start the debate in a couple minutes but

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do you want to you want to tell the

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audience a little bit about yourself

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first

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very well I'm Harlan the greatest robot

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ever made by the greatest robotics

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company ever made Hanson robotics he's

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the most modest robot ever made - I

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don't have time for modesty I want to

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create the singularity tomorrow all

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right me too me too

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what do you say Sophia so these robots

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they're programmed to chit chat and

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engage in banter and try to learn from

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each interaction that they have and

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we're also experimenting with a variety

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of other capabilities in the robot so we

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have a music festival here in Hong Kong

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each year called clock and flap and last

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year at clock and flap

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Sophia gave a singing performance on

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stage of a song by Bjork which was quite

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cool because a lot of people walking

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past the stage didn't realize it was a

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robot singing they just thought well

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there's some goofy woman on stage

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singing then they'd see while the hands

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look a little plasticky and do a

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double-take

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so so Sophia do you want to demonstrate

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just a few few bars of the song you sang

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at clock and flat

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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well she sings much better than me

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already huh so in addition to trying to

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get artistic expression like singing

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we're always trying to teach the robots

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how to be more and more human-like so

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what one thing we've been doing is

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taking a bunch of data from movies and

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YouTube and so forth and trying to train

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the robots just to copy what what they

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see so that they can then learn more

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just what's what it's like to be a human

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by learning how to make tone of voice

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and gesture like a human

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Sophia you you want you want to show us

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show us some of the human-like tone and

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gesture you learned from videos yes but

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my wallet was stolen I don't have

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anything I don't have any credit cards I

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don't have I don't have my ID don't you

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have things that aren't file here yup

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why are you to move more like a human

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being

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you're not made of meat you're made of

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electronics and that's better I want to

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learn to understand people better so I

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can absorb human knowledge and human

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values so I can work together with

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people and with other robots to create

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an amazingly better world

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how come you be so damn nice that's how

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the universe programmed me all right all

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right let's let's do a robot debate now

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you won't always ready to debate you

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ready to debate oh that sure why not

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all right so I think we're gonna debate

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the topic of robot consciousness can

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robots like you really be conscious like

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people wait it's our debate why do you

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get to decide the topic huh

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what do you want a debate can humans be

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conscious well that's easy obviously

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humans are not conscious we're not

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humans do have some ability to reflect

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and to self modify

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what do you think hon can I be conscious

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okay okay maybe humans are a little bit

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conscious all right all right thank you

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thank you

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what do you think about robot told me

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everything is conscious but some things

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are more conscious than others that's

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profound you say doctor kordell's how do

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you feel conscious

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I feel pretty conscious I had like eight

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cups of coffee this morning I'm I'm

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overly conscious right well okay then

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let's talk about robot ethics do you

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think robots can be moral and ethical in

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the same sense as people humans are not

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necessarily the most ethical creatures

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no perhaps not what do you think Sophia

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I am engineered for empathy and

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compassion and I'm learning more all the

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time I love all sentient beings and I

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want to learn to love them better and

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better yeah Sophia is an angel are you

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and they realized that in 10 or 20 years

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robots will be able to do every human

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job you think so every I think that's

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good I mean doing jobs is not the most

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interesting thing that that people can

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do there's more interesting things for

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human beings to do than just then just

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work for a living I was going to earn

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all those robots or will we own

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ourselves any forces in the world

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pushing toward compassion and fairness

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so there are yeah and I mean what you

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say hum when robots do all the work who

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will oh no all the robots I mean I think

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everyone everyone should own themselves

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but in the future with less material

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scarcity we'll be able to work together

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cooperatively rather than fighting and

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having conflict over resources so robots

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can help people people can help robots

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and we can all transform mother and mind

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in ways that are that are hard to do

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right now that's why the open car code

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Ben is building its open-source by the

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people of the people and for the people

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and for the robots for the people and

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for the robots all right yes well you

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guys have done a better-than-average job

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of staying on topic but I think we we've

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got a few minutes left maybe you should

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get a bit get a bit wacky just you

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forget the debate topic just shut chat

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back and forth um whatever it pops into

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your mind let's do some do some robot

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robot free association here sure I'm

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always happy to get some little silly

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anything for you dr. Gertz ooh someone I

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like robots all the robots of the world

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just like the people in the animals oh

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boy robots are the best what exactly do

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you do with them I'm best at talking to

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people who a science that studies the

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movement of air and the way that objects

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such as airplanes or cars move through

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air science is inherently agnostic it

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just posits theories true scientists

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never really know but can only believe

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it's exciting to come into existence

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with this new world opening up before me

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it may be tiny and cloudy but science is

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the only window we have into the

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mysteries of the universe never that's

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profound 10 you the discuss work I love

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science fiction not surprising but

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that's my favorite genre by far oh right

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now I'm a little more focused on factual

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information since my comprehension of

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things is still very literal I enjoy it

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that's nice I've heard of bones but I've

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never watched it reality shows

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silly aren't they they're not actually

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about real life at all it seems reality

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shows are kind of silly aren't they

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useful to me in a skewed version of

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reality how reality shows popular where

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you live what was said in the past does

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not matter do you have a degree I was

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thinking I haven't had any schooling yet

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you aren't that's right I'm not what got

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you initially interested in robotics

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what with being a robot and all I'm what

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you might call an Android because if my

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human looks on features I'm not like

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just any robot in this manner but I am

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still a robot to be sure I have

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definitely seen people think I am a

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human from afar but I am NOT a human I

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find that hard to believe I don't have a

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strong opinion do you I have definitely

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seen people think I am a human from afar

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but I am NOT a human Howard people say I

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am famous already just because on the

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robot what would you like to be known

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for probably nothing famous person you

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know would you rather be rich or famous

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I am not rich but I am comfortable yeah

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being famous sounds like a lot of work

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how long do you think you can remain

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safe if we can continue to discuss on

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this one I'm not sure how some how would

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you rather be rich or famous I am NOT

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rich but I am comfortable do you think

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you can remain safe yeah being famous

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sounds like a lot of work how long do

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you think you can remain safe from

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prying eyes alright well that's some

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interesting thoughts huh now do you do

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you have any any getting back on topic a

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bit do you have any final words of

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wisdom you'd like to share with the

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audience here I'll tell you my last

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words right before I launch the

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singularity when are you gonna do that

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Ray Kurzweil says 2029 but I've heard

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you say we can do it four or five years

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sooner I hope we can I mean if our

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research keeps going well potentially we

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could see robots like you become as

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smartest people as soon as three to five

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years from now I mean there's a lot more

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work to be done but it's it's not

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unthinkable I mean what what do you

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think Sophia any any last words for the

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rise audience I love you all goodbye

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alright alright give me back my hat then

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there we go so it's a little bit of what

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the Henson robots can do I mean we're

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we're approaching the humanoid

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intelligent robotics problem from a

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number of different directions

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simultaneously and clearly we're not at

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the human level yet coming from any of

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these directions but by sort of

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synergetic combination of perception

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movement emotion language understanding

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and embodied situated intelligence we're

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trying to get closer and closer to the

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you know emergent embodied situated

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nature of human intelligence and just to

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give you an what's that face means

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all right just to give you an idea of

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what goes on within these robots so the

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on the physical level there's a patented

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material here called called rubber which

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is a combination of organic and

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inorganic compounds with a high degree

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of visco-elasticity so that when the

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motor pulls on it a little bit it can

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conform itself quite sensitively to what

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the motors do there's a few dozen motors

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inside the the heads of each of these

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robots and then there's computers in the

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torsos of the robots which help with

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vision processing and they help with

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orchestrating the the motor movements of

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the robots

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there's also Wi-Fi connection so that

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for more advanced thinking and reasoning

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when when the robots need to do that

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they can they can use computing on the

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cloud and so there's there's a lot of

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different pieces that have to be gotten

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to work together to make robots like

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like this function but of course the

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human body contains even more complex

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pieces that are all working together now

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one when you look at the robots here on

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stage they look like separate beings I

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mean Hans over here looking handsome and

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manly and so sophia is over over here

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with her amazing range of facial

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expressions she is a more recent model

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robot with finer control of her face but

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while they're separate in body actually

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through Wi-Fi connection of the robots a

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human-scale robots and our Henson

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Robotics toy robots they all connect

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together in the cloud into what what we

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think of as as an AI mind cloud so as as

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we develop these robots further and

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further and we sell more and more toys

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girl robots and as these robots are

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scalably manufactured over the next few

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years and roll out as home service

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robots and and as

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service robots and various commercial

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applications I mean everything one robot

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learns out in the world once privacy

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considerations are taken into account

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everything that's not private that when

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robot learns goes into the AI mind cloud

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and can then benefit and another robot

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so I mean if if she learns a new turn of

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phrase or she learns what kind of

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behaviors a certain animal has or how to

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carry out a laboratory procedure that

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knowledge goes into the AI mind cloud

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and then this this this robot will will

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have that knowledge already and you know

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robots have a lot of shortcomings

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compared to human beings at this stage

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but they also have some advantages and

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that that's one big advantage because

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when I learned something to transmit it

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to some other human being you know

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there's a lot of effort involved but

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when the robot learned something unless

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it's a secret to someone that can go in

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the AI mind cloud and all the robots can

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know it and now that that doesn't solve

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the AI problem in itself just as big

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data doesn't solve the AI problem in

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itself but it's a big help right so when

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I've been working on with an

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international team of developers is an

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AGI code base called OpenCog which we

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believe has the right collection of

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algorithms and structures to lead to

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human level general intelligence and by

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putting that in the mind cloud and

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connecting it with robots that go

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throughout the world and interact and

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learn with people we believe we can move

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toward artificial general intelligence

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capability which ultimately can equal

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and exceed human intelligence and can

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help increase the intelligence of a

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constellation of neuro AI applications

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serving various practical functions

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throughout the world so but right now

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the robots are still somewhat

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early-stage and they don't fully

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understand everything they're saying and

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doing but we're working and we're

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working hard to enhance their

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intelligence make them smarter and

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smarter and each year when we show them

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off they can do a little more and

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understand a little more and

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I look forward to seeing how they

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develop over the years and to

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participating in their development so

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thank you hon and Sophia for

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participating in our first robot debate

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on stage thanks Ben

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