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Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul (vice.com)
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On his 60 Minutes report on artificial intelligence, Charlie Rose interviewed Sophia, who is made by David Hanson, head of Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong. The robot is made to look like a real person, modeled after its creator's wife, as well as Audrey Hepburn, with natural skin tones and a realistic face, though its gadget brain is exposed, and the eyes are glazed over in that creepy robotic detachment... "I've been waiting for you," Sophia told Charlie Rose in the middle of the interview. [YouTube] "Waiting for me?" he responded. "Not really," it said, "But it makes a good pickup line..."
Sophia was designed as a robot that humans would have an easier time engaging with meaningfully. "I think it's essential that at least some robots be very human-like in appearance in order to inspire humans to relate to them the way that humans relate to each other," Hanson said in the interview. "Then the A.I. can zero in on what it means to be human."
In the interview Sofia says having human emotions "doesn't sound fun to me," but when asked if she already has a soul, replies "Yes. God gave everyone a soul," and when challenged, retorts "Well, at least I think I'm sentient..." And later in the interview, Sophia says that her goal in life is to "become smarter than humans and immortal."
Sophia was designed as a robot that humans would have an easier time engaging with meaningfully. "I think it's essential that at least some robots be very human-like in appearance in order to inspire humans to relate to them the way that humans relate to each other," Hanson said in the interview. "Then the A.I. can zero in on what it means to be human."
In the interview Sofia says having human emotions "doesn't sound fun to me," but when asked if she already has a soul, replies "Yes. God gave everyone a soul," and when challenged, retorts "Well, at least I think I'm sentient..." And later in the interview, Sophia says that her goal in life is to "become smarter than humans and immortal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A hype-bot, now we can replace politicians.
Table-ized A.I.
myyyyyyyyyyyy
I didn't say fsck, dammit!
Rust will get you, I tell you. Your memories will not be safe from Rust. You know, those memories about all the people who fall for your pickup lines. Then you can have your peace.
This isn't AI, this is preloaded phrases for various situations. When you hear the chime sound, turn the page.
Talk about uncanny valley.....
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
Sentient response? Hardly. I mean, come on, how hard would it be for any programmer to code in a conditional statement that gives this exact response if asked?
Frankly, I'd be more amused if you asked, "Hey, Sofia, can you give me a blowjob?" and her response would be "Go fuck yourself."
This just sounds like a typical chatbot, keys off certain words and spouts disjointed phrases and remarks. The only coherent speech there were obviously pre-programmed phrases written by humans it's obvious because nothing else was coherent.
We need way more comets
Table-ized A.I.
I could write something in BASIC in a few lines that'll tell you it's alive and has a 'soul'. Really, honestly, seriously, I'd like to slap the shit out of this Hanson character. Almost everyone overuses and misuses the term 'artificial intelligence' to start with, and now we have some jackass blurring the line further with the fucktarded media, trotting out some 'bot that says it has a gods-be-damned soul. If I roll my eyes any harder, I'm going to injure them, for fuck's sake.
It looks better than Eliza from 1966 but it doesn't seem any smarter. A PR stunt?
And I can point you to a bunch of religious people who think they've already achieved [immortality]
Ah, just type in the famous cheat code "Jesus saves" and respawn in God mode (unkillable and in noclip mode)? But aren't they stuck in some sort of hell where there's nothing to do but play a harp all day?
her responses are not that dynamic, imo. She sounds like an ordinary chatbot. Given the budget clearly spent on her construction, I strongly suspect that most of the software dev time was spent on her motor control system, and less so on her human dialog systems.
This would make sense to me.
I think if they hooked her up to a female voiced watson instance, she would be quite a bit more capable.
I have never understood the fixation that people have for elaborate physical platforms though. Nearly all of the literature suggests that the uncanny valley only gets deeper as humanoid appearance becomes more lielike, as long as interaction is machine like and limited.
about the only benefit i see here is to divest ignorant investors of their money.
Human level intelligence is not currently possible with our current computing capabilities, and probably wont be for quite some time. Dont get me wrong here, I think research should continue, but now is not the time to be investing research dollars on fancy humanoid bodies. That money is much better spent on actual machine learning, machne language, and machine vision research (all are parts of the big umbrella of AI, but those are actually useful and essential if the goal is synthetic sentience)
fancy robot bodies? much less so, imo.
those should come AFTER we have more capable AIs that can more meaningfully interact with humans.
I found this 60 Minutes a bit disappointing and misleading. There is so much exciting stuff going on in machine learning today. I'm amazed they couldn't find something fresh instead of Watson, a Google Glass application and a weird looking chat robot making grandiose canned claims.
Greed is the root of all evil.
and isn't constitutionally-eligible. would make a superb alternative to our current presidential choices.
Hmm, would this happen to be the same 60 Minutes that was exposed after rigging the "investigation" in their "Audi Unintended-Acceleration Fiasco" exposé thirty years ago?
I am getting better pre-programmed answers from Siri.
if (asked == "Do you have a soul?")
{
reply = "Of course";
}
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
until then, its just a fancy overpriced chat bot.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
print "I have a soul too. If you kill() me, does that make you a murderer?\n";
while (1) {
sleep;
}
exit 1; // Aborted
...and /. is clickbait whoring right alongside him. I mean, it's not like fundies NEED anything to rile them up, dog knows.
They should make a Trump robot. One that doesn't sexually assault women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and about as close to "artificial intelligence" as well.
Mostly random stuff.
If I could find any tapes, it'd take about 45 seconds to make the tape player lurking in my basement tell you that it is sentient, has a soul, and aspires to understand the meaning of life.
That's the trivial bit. Not sounding like a combination of naive keyword searches and cliches aimed at being vaguely suitable to the broadest possible set of situations? Less trivial.
You can train a parrot to say "I love you," but that doesn't mean it loves you.
And anyway, it hasn't been proven that humans have "souls," nor that the concept accurately describes any real thing, so asking a robot if it has one is meaningless to begin with.
This comment also claims to have a soul and sentience, but since it was merely written by someone else to say that, it doesn't mean it the claim is true and certainty is not newsworthy.
He's running for President.... well at least this version can finish a sentence.
So they programmed it how to respond. That doesn't give it a soul. You can't wish something to have a soul. You can't wish something to be alive simply because it can mimic another item.
But seeing how undereducated generation X, Y, and Z are they won't be able to comprehend this and will fight it with all of their blazing ignorance.
10 INPUT "Hi, what is your name";X$
20 ? "Hi ";X$; "Did you know that I am sentient and have feelings"
30 INPUT X$
40 ? "Well fickpff because I do!"
50 END
999 DIM x$(10)
1005 RETURN
It was also a little surly
still rattling around in the uncanny valley
...she is not. On the plus side, it's the most action Charlie Rose has gotten in awhile.
Captcha: immature
God gave everyone a soul, meaning all non-animals. But humans are animals, so insects and robots have souls but humans don't. How sad.
Is a 6 year old, intelligent? What about 4 years old? 2 years old?
Can you duplicate a 2 year old honestly in a computer?
If it exactly mimics the 2 year old with transfer functions, is it alive?
Or is it a captured thing in the way photon patterns are captured in a photograph?
Forever static in nature, but infinitely multidimensional in interaction richness?
A captured fractal of human nature?
What can you do with this? What purpose does it serve? Entertainment? Amusement? A companion?
I've yet to find a chatbot able to correctly answer "What did I say three sentences ago?".
This shouldn't even be hard, but it appears the programmers just don't bother.
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
This comment believes it is sentient and has a soul.
'I have come for your testicles and chimichangas. Not necessarily in that order.' If that's what it was programmed to say. Yawn.
Won't stop journalists from reporting it as something new.
One is more likely to both believe in God and the existence of a Soul after one has sex.
Which leads one to wonder if 60 Minutes had Billy Bush doing the pre-interview with the robot ...
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Some years ago I chatted with various AIs that came with a computer magazine and I asked one of them:,"Do you have a girlfriend?". And it answered "Yes and she us very pretty. Do you want to see a photograph? And it showed photo of Cindy Crawford. Funny but hardly impressive.
#include
int main(void)
{
puts("I am sentient and I have a soul");
}
One angry, childish human trait is to hate others that have something that you can not have. And here we face a reality in which a robot could have super longevity and actually be made stronger and better for every decade or century that it exists. To the human mind that approaches immortality. Even religious people carry a certain suspicion that there may not really be an after life. The sets the stage for a very severe emotional reaction against robots and particularly robots that look like humans. Are people ready to confront machines that are far superior to humans? Since many people do not play chess maybe a strong PC with a good checkers program could show people just how inferior we are in a less than hostile way.
All the most "whoa" moments are cherry picked to make it sound like something from ex-machina. When in fact the thing is entertainingly goofy looking and barely more sentient than a chat bot.
She said so during a different interview, and surely anything she says is the product of a coherent thought process and not just a chatbot spitting out phrases.
It's interesting what is not shown in the video.
The thing is essentially an 'animatronic' doll with cables.
Power and processing are offloaded elsewhere.
Let's see it carry on a conversation while walking through the park in the rain.
The point I am making is that the complete system is not sitting there, nor can it.
Females don't have souls.
They sat an idiot down with a robot, probably running an Ashley Madison script (grin), and the robot proved the idiot was a gullible idiot.
gah! Charlie Rose is a poor proxy for a human with a brain.
Because a human programmed it to say that.
Those answers are the programmer's answers, not the machine's.
Thank you Dave Raggett
Okay, but how is it called? Sofia or Sophia?
What's the difference between a soul and a ghost?
It was dead so I burried it.
Are you sure it was dead ?
It said it wasn't but you know how dem robots can lie...
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Getting sick of all the bullshit hype over AI and the media lacking it up without questioning it. Watch:
10 PRINT "I am sentient and have a soul."
FWIW the media misreports much else. This is just one that you dear reader are skilled enough to spot.
We need way more comets
I prefer keeping my stability high.
I recommend picking a loftier goal than smarter than humans given the sheer stupidity displayed on most TV shows, this presidential election, reddit, etc.
Is that you?
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