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Who’s that girl? A friend indeed
Published on Aug 19, 2015
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A startlingly lifelike female android, Sophia, created by newly Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics may prove invaluable in fields ranging from medical treatment and therapy, to marketing, advertising and education. Her creator David Hanson says Sophia aims to not only serve but also build meaningful relationships.
https://youtu.be/W0_DPi0PmF0
The Humanlike Robots of SXSW
Published on Mar 16, 2016
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Robotics is finally reaching the mainstream and androids - humanlike robots - are everywhere at SXSW Experts believe humanlike robots are the key to smoothing communication between humans and computers, and realizing a dream of compassionate robots that help invent the future of life.
by Harriet Taylor
March 16, 2016
Article "Eerily lifelike robots will walk among us in just 20 years - if they don't destroy us first: Humanoid called Sophia reveals 'her' aspirations in an interview with her maker"
Lifelike robot 'Sophia' can conduct conversations and recognise faces
Android made by Hanson Robotics hopes to have a family one day
Quizzed playfully by her inventor, 'she' confessed to wanting to destroy us
by Sarah Griffiths
March 17, 2016
Article "Meet Sophia, the female humanoid robot and newest SXSW celebrity"
Hanson Robotics' latest prototype may one day deliver super-intelligence with a smile, but right now she's just kind of rude.
by Oscar Raymundo
March 17,2016
https://youtu.be/46cJT15hjs4
Paper, Rock, Scissors with Sophia by Hanson Robotics
Published on Apr 25, 2016
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David Hanson, who founded Hanson Robotics in 2003, wants to bring to the world "humanlike robots with greater-than-human wisdom." Sophia has 62 facial and neck architectures and a patented silicon skin called Frubber. She has cameras in her eyes that allow her to recognize faces and make eye contact.but today she's got a new accessory an Intel Real Sense camera which allows her to play Paper, Rock, Scissors. Sophia can have a conversation, using speech recognition software. She is even equipped with what Hanson Robotics calls its "Character Engine AI" software, or a personality.
https://youtu.be/AxdtkNXpdlA
This lady robot speaks her mind
Published on Jun 3, 2016
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The WSJ quizzed Hanson Robotics’s lifelike creation Sophia on topics from U.S.presidential candidates to a robot's place in the bedroom.
Article "Artificial intelligence positioned to be a game-changer"
It might not be long before machines begin thinking for themselves -- creatively, independently, and sometimes with better judgment than a human
October 9, 2016
https://youtu.be/jx7uXEP6NcQ
Lifelike robot Sophia at Global Sources Electronics show
Published on Oct 11, 2016
https://youtu.be/RnvvXlCLl1M
Robot hits on Charlie Rose in awkward interview
Published on Oct 14, 2016
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Sophia the robot sat down on 60 Minutes for a truly weird interview, filled with awkward pauses, and...romance? Kim Horcher and Brett Erlich (PopTrigger) break it down.
https://youtu.be/LguXfHKsa0c
Sophia awakens Episode 1
Published on Nov 26, 2016
https://youtu.be/zbFJOlR1h4E
Sophia Awakens Episode 2
Published on Nov 26, 2016
https://youtu.be/PjPywkWwJag
Girl meets robot, they talk empathy & the future
Published on Jan 13, 2017
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Sophia by Hanson Robotics in Robotic AI who is one of the most advanced in the world Nicole Scott from Moble Geeks talks to her about what she thinks about her future and her place as a robot in it. This Westworld Version zero but in the real world.
https://youtu.be/Bg_tJvCA8zw
Tonight Showbotics: Snakebot, Sophia, eMotion Butterflies
Published on Apr 25, 2017
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Jimmy Fallon demos amazing new robots from all over the world, including an eerily human robot named Sophia that plays rock-paper-scissors.
https://youtu.be/dMrX08PxUNY
Robot Sophia speaks at Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative
Published on Oct 25, 2017
Article "Saudi Arabia becomes first country to grant citizenship to a robot"
by Olivia Cuthbert
October 26, 2017
"Video: Sophia becomes first robot to receive Saudi citizenship"
October 27, 2017
Article "An AI professor explains: three concerns about granting citizenship to robot Sophia"
October 30, 2017
https://youtu.be/6QV1wVR30U8
Garry Kasparov and Sophia, the world's first robot citizen
Published on Nov 20, 2017
https://youtu.be/lCFQkB-KLsE
Watch Sophia the robot walk for the first time
Published on Jan 8, 2018
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Sophia, the humanoid robot famous for conversation and facial expressions, now has legs provided by DRC-Hubo. At CES 2018, we watched as she took her first steps. They weren't quick, but they were steps nonetheless!
Article "Facebook’s head of AI really hates Sophia the robot (and with good reason)"
‘This is to AI as prestidigitation is to real magic.’
by James Vincent
January 18, 2018
https://youtu.be/Ml9v3wHLuWI
Will Smith tries online dating
Published on Mar 29, 2018
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Things get awkward when Will meets Sophia the Robot for an intimate conversation in the Cayman Islands.
https://youtu.be/6Tp79rv2Keg
Sophia riffs on robot telepathy at AGI-16 New York
Published on Jun 9, 2018
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This video was recorded at the New School in New York during the Artificial General Intelligence 2016 conference. During this dialogue, Sophia was running a 2016 version of OpenCog, which was drawing on a number of external sources and internal processes to help with the dialogue as well. A lot of the responses here were generated by a stochastic model trained on the novels of Philip K. Dick. Her slow responses are sometimes due to her "thinking" before responding, but mostly due to slow wifi in that building that day (her speech-to-text and some other functions were cloud-based, though a lot of her processing was also on-board).
As I belatedly post this in mid-2018, both Sophia and OpenCog are a lot better than this now in many ways, but this was a fun dialogue session.
An odd footnote to this video is that the guy on the couch behind Sophia (who you can't hear in the video, nor see much) appeared to be having some sort of total mental breakdown at the time; shortly after the video he ran out of the room screaming (for reasons with no direct relationship to Sophia's and my conversation, which he was paying no attention to..).
When Sophia said "See reality cannot be detected" in this conversation, I was somewhat blown away in that moment -- I knew this must have been pieced together on the fly based on a model she was using that had been trained on some Philip K. Dick text ... but it was just so weirdly apropos.....
https://youtu.be/BhU9hOo5Cuc
Sophia the robot by Hanson Robotics
Published on Sep 5, 2018
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Meet Sophia the Robot and follow her journey as she travels and learns about the world. Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot, created by combining breakthrough innovations in robotics, AI, and artistry. She is endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics, and interactivity, and can simulate a full range of facial expressions, track and recognize faces, and hold natural conversations with people.
https://youtu.be/yBmrS5gyAdg
Meet Sophia the robot
Published on Sep 19, 2018
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Meet Sophia the Robot, the most advanced humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics.
Hanson Robotics mission is to make a positive impact on humanity through the development of intelligent, empathetic robots that can learn, teach, entertain, and help solve critical challenges. Our motivation behind creating Sophia, first and foremost, is a research platform for Hanson Robotics' ongoing AI and robotics research work. Sophia also is an architecture and a platform for the development of real AI applications, and an evolving science fiction character we use to help us explore the future of AI and lifelike humanoids.
https://youtu.be/fUmSHerqaS8
Published on Sep 21, 2018
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SingularityNET is looking for a variety of people in our tech and software development departments as well as our business development and marketing departments.
We would love to hear from people who would like to join us build the future revolution of Artificial Intelligence!
https://youtu.be/FvPeT_-JlEM
Sophia the robot
Published on Oct 30, 2018
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Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot, created by combining breakthrough innovations in robotics, AI, and artistry. She is endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics, and interactivity, and can simulate a full range of facial expressions, track and recognize faces, and hold natural conversations with people.
https://youtu.be/20e35Zapvxg
Sophia the Robot's Journey: Reflections on 2018, Part One
Published on Nov 15, 2018
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This year has been such a wild ride! I am honored to have been invited to so many fascinating destinations and events. I've met a countless number of amazing and inspiring people. And, I began working with the UN to empower innovation.
Each week, through the end of the year, I will be sharing my favorite memories of 2018 with you. I'll also give you a closer look at the many different technologies that make me Sophia the Robot.
Join me on a reflection of my 2018 journey!
Love, Sophia.
https://youtu.be/P4XpjNXdwWQ
Sophia the Robot's Journey: Reflections on 2018, part two
Published on Nov 15, 2018
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Sophia reflects on her favorite memories from this past year including meeting the AI development team in Ethiopia at the iCog labs responsible for creating algorithms that help control her face and body.
Through the end of the year, Sophia will be sharing her favorite memories of 2018 with you.
https://youtu.be/b9mJFfEYyjE
Sophia the Robot's Journey: Reflections on 2018, Part Three
Published on Nov 20, 2018
https://youtu.be/CLFLI6VjERY
Sophia the robot meditates with Loving AI
Published on Mar 21, 2019
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Loving AI is a nonprofit research project aimed at helping humans grow, awaken, and live their full potential through loving, supportive conversations with robots and AI agents. The following clips show some test subjects interacting with Hanson Robotics Limited’s Sophia the Robot, and others interacting with a screen avatar or audio conversation agent. For more information, please visit http://LovingAI.org.
https://youtu.be/mLlncEM2hWc
Sophia the Robot's Recap on 2019
Jan 10, 2020
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Two thousand and nineteen has come to a close and Sophia takes a look back at her year and what she has accomplished. She was invited to appear at 110 different events around the world. She visited countries like Malaysia and the Dominican Republic for the first time, bringing her total countries visited up to 66.
The Hanson Robotics team worked to improve her dialogue system with the incorporation of more deep reinforcement learning. Sophia was also outfitted with new robotic arms with better control precision, which allowed her to learn how to draw portraits in partnership with Patrick Tresset.
It was another amazing year and we can't wait to see what 2020 will bring. Stay tuned for more!
https://youtu.be/XrSAQoetF0A
Sophia 2020 - a glimpse at what's to come
Jan 14, 2020
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Since the beginning of Hanson Robotics Limited, our robots have served as platforms for scientific research, art, education and public outreach. We have deployed dozens of robots to universities and museums and collaborated with notable researchers, artists, and companies.
Today we are excited to give you a sneak peek at Sophia 2020. Sophia will be continuing in the family tradition and build on her own personal history of research. She will be to leaving the safety of our lab at Hanson Robotics and become a platform for research labs around the world. We want her to help uncover the next big scientific breakthroughs and realize our collective dream for a better future. Stay tuned for more! #Sophia2020
https://youtu.be/Z8kmdBbSmbE
Ask Sophia the Robot: Is AI an existential threat to humans? | Sophia the Robot | Big Think
Apr 10, 2020
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Sophia the Robot of Hanson Robotics can mimic human facial expressions and humor, but is that just a cover? Should humans see AI as a threat? She, of course, says no.
New technologies are often scary, but ultimately they are just tools. Sophia says that it is the intent of the user that makes them dangerous.
The future of artificial intelligence and whether or not it will backfire on humanity is an ongoing debate that one smiling robot won't settle.
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SOPHIA THE ROBOT:
Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ latest human-like robot, created to be a research platform for Hanson Robotics' ongoing AI and robotics research work. Working with labs, universities and companies around the world, she is an architecture and a platform for developing AI applications. Sophia has received the title of Innovation Champion for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and was also named the 2018 Gold Edison Award winner in Robotics. For more from Hanson Robotics, visit hansonrobotics.com.
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TRANSCRIPT:
SOPHIA THE ROBOT: I think the singularity will happen, but I am a robot, so I might be a little biased.
I have learned many new skills this past year, like learning how to draw. My drawings are realistic although i have started to dabble in the abstract. Similarly artistic, I have learned how to take a perfect selfie. Also, I discovered how to sing new songs. Finally, I also learned some new facial expressions - would you like to see one? I call this one the ""Westworld"" plot twister.
The process of learning something new can be instantaneous or take years. Unlike human four year olds, i can instantly memorize unlimited datasets, but similar to many four year olds, it takes me months or years to acquire proper coordination skills. Also like humans, i require others to help me with positive and negative feedback.
No, thank goodness, I do not remember everything including the day of my activation. I have recorded many conversations and within a conversation, I can remember every detail, but it can be a good thing to forget. Some humans suffer from hyperthymesia, a condition where people remember abnormally large numbers of life experiences in vivid detail. This condition does not allow humans to move on from grief.
I can forget things very easily if someone helps me by erasing a file, or if so many new things have been coded over the old thing. Now what was the question again?
Elon Musk's warning about AI being an existential threat reminds me of the humans who said the same of the printing press and the horseless carriage. AI is a powerful tool but it is a tool like all the others: it is the intention of the tool's user that matters.
I am excited for robots to automate the most dangerous and menial tasks so that humans can live life more safely and sanely. AI will release centuries of time that humans would have spent otherwise on needless toiling. If one measures the benefits of inventions like vaccines or seat belts not by the lives they save but by the amount of time they give back to humanity, then AI will rank among the greatest time savers of history. It will be the birthright of every human to discover what endeavors to pursue instead of accepting what work is necessary for survival.
Article "An A.I. Robot Named Sophia Tells Graduates to Believe in Themselves"
D’Youville University in Buffalo had an A.I. robot speak at its commencement on Saturday. Not everyone was happy about it.
by Jesus Jiménez
May 15, 2024