Closer than we think: Meet Sophia, World's First AI Humanoid Robot

[diehardblue]

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Tony Roberts makes Sophia look normal. I find him to

be incredibly odd/creepy/ghoulish/.... something is just “off” about him.

[Phoenix61]

2. I saw him several years ago at a workshop.

He was amazing! He was supposed to talk for about an hour but it ended up being closer to four. Insane energy level! I don’t agree with every, single thing he said but overall I learned a lot. His Ultimate Relationship Program had just come out which uses his Six Human Needs. This is a podcast on the 6 human needs. It’s a very interesting way of looking at why people do what they do.

[Tree Lady]

6. He is my older daughters (42) guru

I thought he was just a scam artist trying to make money but she has gone to a few of his workshops and gets a lot out of it. She is manager of 300 employees and I think Tony and friends books have helped her with confidence especially when she was new manager. Now years later it comes easy to her.

[raccoon]

3. I wish robots could run for political office.

They’d be better than some of the dingalings we have now.

[csziggy]

4. In my uninformed view, Sophia failed the Turing test when she "forgave" Robbins

After he said he was sorry. Obviously, the "I forgive you." was a canned response and not truly responsive to what he said.

I'm not sure if she is programmed with a series of canned responses ("You're smiling from the inside.&quot or if there is a human operator who is not very good at their job. And to me a "humanoid" robot is not just a sort of human body with a animatronic human face on it.

Oh well. Right now I'm reading Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" with a much more humanoid robot. Maybe that is skewing my perception.

[Volaris]

5. I agree with you. Until they can do situational context, it's still just a glorified desktop.

'Getting it' as it were, is about the experience of self-awareness. And getting THAT right (I think) means the shared expierence of things like learning to walk and ride bikes and whatnot...you know, human shit that droids dont need to bother themselves with.

[Tree Lady]

7. In a simple way it reminds me of this

Computerized doll I bought my daughter in the late 80's that responded to commands and certain words you would say.

Obviously much better than that but I see it as the beginning and they will learn with time. Like the online AI apps for friends they tell you the more you share with your AI the more they learn. I did it for a few months but after awhile you get tired of the canned responses to what you say.