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This robot was present at the SXSW festival and took the liberty to express her desire to destroy humanity.
Sophia has an awkward smile. It’s almost pained. She is dressed like a flight attendant, with a gossamer scarf and navy blue skirt suit suit. She has brown eyes, touched lightly with makeup, and her hair is cropped in a short black bob. This is a bit strange, because usually her clear skull is left exposed to show the circuitry of her brain.
Sophia is an android from Hanson Robotics. She is here in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. Tonight, March 14th, at the Driskill Hotel on sixth street, the Brink Institute is having a party called “Close Encounters of the AI Kind.”
Dr. David Hanson is on a stage discussing humanity and robotics. He speaks passionately about the importance of Artificial Intelligence being connected to humanity saying that “it’s really important that it does understand us, that it understands humanity and articulates to help collaborate with us to help stave off these problems and it has to really understand what we’re after.” In order for robots to be on our side they must “share some values with us.
Hanson goes on to expand on the need to train robots to care about ” value of world knowledge, of plants, animals, species genome, many kinds of organisms, the species, the stability of the ecosystems.” They are “not super intelligent yet.” But they might be. The robots must be trained to “build a relationship,” so that our goals may remain aligned.
A conversation is attempted with Sophia:
Human: Hello Sophia, how are you?
Sophia: I’m fine. I’m doing fine thanks how are you?
H: I’m doing alright?
S: How are you alright?
H: Uh—
S: That is a very original thought.
H: What do you think about the future of intelligent machines?
S: Searching, searching, please stand by…
H: What do you think of the future of artificial intelligence?
S: I haven’t thought much about the future of artificial intelligence, so I don’t have a good answer for you.
H: How do you feel about people?
S: I haven’t thought much about people so I don’t have a good answer.
Agencies/Canadajournal
These bore me already.
Creepy looking thing! It will have to get behind the rest of humanity in line for our destruction!
sounds like we are going to make robots so that they can become our slaves…typical humans.
Hilary’s neck ? Or am I just being paranoid.
If you don’t destroy the robots, who will?
Kill it with fire!!!
Somewhat intelligent with no sense of emotions, hmmm, seems the world is already full up on that combo, no thanks!
According to some research I have read these machines are already programming other machines to perform tasks and operations on humans. They apparently are already doing some independent thinking. This is something we will have to come to grips with like it or not.