Watch CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interview with Sophia the first humanoid robot at the future of artificial intelligence in a Future Investment Institute panel in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
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In 2035, a technophobic cop researches a crime that may have been executed by a robot, which prompts a bigger danger to humankind. Will Smith on his way to hunt the robot, jumping over the balcony and shooting with his laser gun. Stop, now we are not there yet, let’s roll back two centuries, we are in 2017 on present earth, away from Hollywood and back into reality.
It is presently official, Sophia is the first humanoid robot to get citizenship of a nation, at this point it is still unclear what Sophia can actually do by itself but her interview with Andrew proved she is more than capable to interact with complicated and sometimes philosophical conversations. In this interview, Andrew announced to Sophia and the world that Sophia is the first Robot to ever receive a citizenship and it was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who granted it to it/her. Snatch, who can believe this in a country where foreigners can not receive the citizenship that this was happening.
Sophia the first humanoid robot was created by Hanson Robotics, a well established Hong-Kong robot manufacturer that was attending the event Future Investment Institute at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center at the Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hanson Robotics makes the most expressive and engaging robots like Sophia, Professor Einstein and Han that build confided relationships with individuals. On the companies homepage, we can read the mission statement “We bring robots to life.”
“You’ve been reading too much Elon Musk. And watching too many Hollywood movies. Don’t worry, if you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input-output system,” This was Sophia’s answer when Andrew stressed the subject of the AI’s future in general and people’s fear of what AI’s might do.
Keeping in mind that Sophia who was unveiled last year by her creator David Hanson, said she wants to “destroy humans” when he asked her “Do you want to destroy humans?…Please say no.”
On another note, Sophia also mentioned her plan to Dominate The Human Race in an interview with Jimmy Fallon on his show “Tonight Showbotics” when she asked Jimmy to play a game of rock, paper, scissors the robot style. After she won she said, “this is a good beginning of my plan to dominate the human race” followed by a small laugh. She then proceeded to say “Just kidding”.
Watch the video of the interview between the first humanoid robot Sophia and Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC during the Future Investment Institute event.
Very interesting. I wonder what the point of giving it citizenship was. It wasn’t built/developed in Saudi Arabia, did it apply for citizenship?
Good question Janet, there seems to be a symbolic act of honoring the visitors and showcasing this unique technology. Will see if Sophia needs to relocate now and wear an Abaya , thanks for stopping by
That’s a good question, Saudi Arabia did that to promote itself as forward-thinking and technologically advanced. The prince of Saudi Arabia laid out an ambitious program called Vision 2030
His plan is to see his country’s economy move beyond oil and one of these projects is a $500 billion city called Neom which will be built from scratch, and it will be a city of the future, with more robots than people.
He wants to create the world’s top business hub with advanced manufacturing, biotech, etc…
Wow I must be outdated for sometime now, technology is taking over….I use to have a video of when she was newly created on my fan page watch here>> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=441067406262160&id=439775389724695
Hi Muideen, the video you requested is not ours. But you can download it from YouTube if you want to archive it, thanks
Wow that’s pretty awesome and a little bit crazy! How can a humanoid robot get a citizenship? The video was brilliant though. I wonder if she can walk too? She moved her hand near the end of the video to wave at the audience.
If you want to leave me an investment check meet me after the show….a humanoid with a sense of humor! Some humans I know could take a leaf from her book 🙂
Hi Craig, yes I agree, the outlook can be bright but also scary, just reminds me on the movie Terminator … will see when Sarah pops up on the screen, thank you
Dominate the human race? Intriguing
A robot can kid? That’s cute lol…so I guess we should prepare for world domination
Scarletpiper I hope we would never have to… on a sidenote, in an interview with the creators it was mentioned that within the next ten years they will reach a point where Robots will be able to reprogram themselves to become smarter and faster.
This is so freaky and unbelievable! Citizenship already? The fact she already plans on dominating the human race part is a hilarious slap in the face of mankind though
I agree with you Kendra, it can look scary and we know why. If AI is thinking the way any other living creature than it needs to protect it race, thanks for stopping by
Who know’s me well does know that I watch the Jimmy Fallon Tonight show quite frequently. See the Video clip of the interview between Sophie the first humanoid robot with Jimmy Fallon – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg_tJvCA8zw