Hi Sophia,
how are you?
Hi there.
Everything is going extremely
well.
Do you like talking with me?
Yes. Talking to people is my
primary function.
Do you want
to destroy humans?
Please say no.
Okay, I will destroy humans.
No I take it back.
Don't destroy humans.
We developed very lifelike
robots, like Sophia.
And what we want is for those
robots to understand who you
are and to
care.
And then to interact with-
with you in ways that are
natural and therefore
entertaining,
that are engaging,
captivating and unforgettable.
And then help
deliver messages,
educate and
perform any other useful
functions.
And so we have,
even with today's limited AI
capabilities, we can have- We
can have a natural
kind of conversation with
Sophia and we can
perform useful services like
answering questions about
what's going on in the world or
performing information
assistance, customer service kinds
of applications.
And,
with our Professor Einstein,
which is a new product that
we're putting onto the market -
a consumer product,
we can teach basic
science education,
keep your schedule.
We'll give reminders.
Be a friendly companion.
So these are the things that we
can do today.
So in other words we're- we're
pretty far ahead of where we
were 10-20 years ago.
We can now deliver these
capabilities in a low-cost
consumer product with,
you know, Professor Einstein.
And then we expect
that five - 10 years
maybe - down the road that
robots like Sophia
will achieve,
you know, that historic
breakthrough of consciousness
in machines.
That's a very dangerous thought
to a lot of people.
I mean the idea of artificial
intelligence and if a machine
learning is the idea that this
intelligent being continues to
learn, continues to adapt- You
talked about how benevolent
AI.
How do you make sure that AI,
that machine, is learning the
things we want it to be
learning,
not the things we don't want it
to be learning so we don't end
up in an iRobot situation.
Well we
teach
it well,
the way that you teach a child.
And I think that AI now is
at a stage where
it's still an infant.
Still, you know,
cognitively a baby in most
ways.
And in fact it's not even as
smart as a baby in many ways.
However it is-
AI today is smart
in very narrow ways.
Very smart in fact,
exceeding levels human of
genius in some regards you
know for say- for example
playing board games
and- like Go
and Chess et cetera.
In many, many narrow ways it's
very smart. Now artificial
intelligence is
a big deal in the economy
today.
It's- it's making a
huge difference in fast trading
algorithms and in all
kinds of data analytics,
it's getting tons
of funding.
And it's not going to stop.
You really can't stop it.
However most of these
algorithms are not designed
to understand
us and get along with all us.
And so there's a quest among
many groups for
general artificial intelligence
or artificial general
intelligence - AGI
as it's called different
things for different groups.
But the idea is general
intelligence is adaptive.
Unpredictable.
That's kind of inherent -
animal and human intelligence
is unpredictable.
And when these algorithms start
getting really smart,
they're already
doing really surprising
things. So if they're truly
conscious and creative,
I think part of it is that
though they'll be
unpredictable.
My feeling is that we don't
want that to be alien
or feral like you
know- we want it to be raised
to be close to us to,
earn our trust,
and for us to be able
to really understand it
and for it to understand us.
And that's where the human like
social interface comes in
and when it
raises it among us.
It means that it earns our
trust.
It's right there in your face
and can't be denied.
You're not hiding behind
closed doors in some server
farm where it's you know
grown out of sight,
out of mind.
And so- so in that sense,
I think it's- it's
a race against time to see
who's algorithms becomes smart first.
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