Sophia cracks jokes, frowns, smiles, blinks and responds to complex questions. This month she has made strides with her first tentative steps. The robot has stunned the world since her creation in 2015, appearing on chat shows and at technology conferences and wowing audiences with her wit and lifelike facial expressions. Ben Goertzel, chief scientist at Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, now says he wants to give Sophia and other robots “intelligence at the human level and beyond”.
Technology allows her face to move, apparently with expression. Cameras are embedded in her eyes and her “brain” processes speech, recognises faces and forms sentences while controlling her facial movements and body language. Her creator, David Hanson, a sculptor-turned-robotics scientist, and his team seem determined to bring her to life, or at least give that impression. On her website, Sophia describes herself as “a real, live electronic girl”. Dr Hanson created a nanotech material he calls frubber to put over Sophia’s frame as flesh. She is said to be capable of simulating more than 60 facial expressions. He made his robot as human-like as possible to alleviate fears about artificial intelligence and automation.
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Technology allows her face to move, apparently with expression. Cameras are embedded in her eyes and her “brain” processes speech, recognises faces and forms sentences while controlling her facial movements and body language. Her creator, David Hanson, a sculptor-turned-robotics scientist, and his team seem determined to bring her to life, or at least give that impression. On her website, Sophia describes herself as “a real, live electronic girl”. Dr Hanson created a nanotech material he calls frubber to put over Sophia’s frame as flesh. She is said to be capable of simulating more than 60 facial expressions. He made his robot as human-like as possible to alleviate fears about artificial intelligence and automation.
Click here for a video.
Credits:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/18/16904742/sophia-the-robot-ai-real-fake-yann-lecun-criticism
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