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What happens when Charlie Rose attempts to interview a robot named
"Sophia" for his 60 Minutes report on artificial intelligence
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/charlie-rose-interviews-a-robot
“I’ve been waiting for you,” Sophia tells 60 Minutes correspondent
Charlie Rose. They’re mid-interview, and Rose reacts with surprise.
“Waiting for me?” he asks.
“Not really,” she responds. “But it makes a good pickup line.”
Sophia managed to get a laugh out of Charlie Rose. Not bad for a
robot.
Rose interviewed the human-like machine for this week’s two-part 60
Minutes piece on artificial intelligence, or A.I. In their exchange,
excerpted in the clip above, Rose seems to approach the conversation
with the same seriousness and curiosity he would bring to any
interview.
“You put your head where you want to test the possibility,” Rose
tells 60 Minutes Overtime. “You’re not simply saying, ‘Why am I
going through this exercise of talking to a machine?’ You’re saying,
‘I want to talk to this machine as if it was a human to see how it
comprehends.’”
Sophia’s creator, David Hanson, believes that if A.I. technology
looks and sounds human, people will be more willing to engage with
it in meaningful ways.
“I think it’s essential that at least some robots be very human-like
in appearance in order to inspire humans to relate to them the way
that humans relate to each other,” Hanson says. “Then the A.I. can
zero in on what it means to be human.”
He envisions robots as companions for people who would otherwise be
socially isolated, such as the elderly. “If you have a robot that
can communicate in a very human-like way and help somebody who
otherwise doesn’t know how to use a computer, put them in touch with
their relatives,” Hanson explains, “put them in touch with their
healthcare provider in a way that is natural for them, then that
could provide a critical difference of connectivity for that person
with the world.”
Through his company Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, Hanson has created
twenty human-like robots, even developing artificial skin that
simulates the physics of facial flesh. Sophia is his latest design,
modeled after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson’s wife.
“Sophia means wisdom,” Hanson explains, “and she is intended to
evolve eventually to human-level wisdom and beyond.”
She still has a long way to go.
“Sometimes she can figure things out in a way that’s sort of spooky
and human-like,” Hanson says. “And other ways, she just doesn’t get
it.”
During Sophia’s interview, Rose asks her if she’s been programmed,
but she responds only with silence. At times, her replies were
nonsensical. But at other moments 60 Minutes producers were
surprised by her ability to converse with one of the great
conversationalists in journalism.
Sophia’s “brain” has been programmed, but Hanson says she is also
able to create spontaneous responses based on algorithms. She runs
on A.I. that analyzes her conversations and extrapolates information
afterward. In theory, this helps her to improve her future
responses. According to Hanson, her pickup line to Rose was one
example of a spontaneous response.
She has cameras inside her eyes and a wide-angle camera on her chest
that allows her to see multiple people at once. She can perceive
depth with a 3D sensor and has facial and voice recognition
capabilities.
“I don’t think it’s a parlor trick,” Rose says. “I don’t think
they’re doing it in a sense to entertain. I think they’re doing it
because they believe that this is the way to the future.”
Though, for now, Hanson’s robot still seems more machine than man;
Rose says he was never able to lose himself in the conversation with
her. “Right now, the word ‘artificial’ is true,” he says.
Hanson concedes that his dream -- creating A.I. robots that look
human yet have the capacity to be smarter than humans -- is not met
with universal acceptance in the scientific community, but he is
undeterred.
“It could happen 20 years from now,” Hanson says of super
intelligent robots. “Or it could just suddenly appear because we hit
the right combination on an algorithm. One day people are saying
it’s never going to happen; the next day, it’s suddenly changing our
world.”
--
"Gotta have them ribs and pussy too!"
-- Barack Obama
"Sophia" for his 60 Minutes report on artificial intelligence
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/charlie-rose-interviews-a-robot
“I’ve been waiting for you,” Sophia tells 60 Minutes correspondent
Charlie Rose. They’re mid-interview, and Rose reacts with surprise.
“Waiting for me?” he asks.
“Not really,” she responds. “But it makes a good pickup line.”
Sophia managed to get a laugh out of Charlie Rose. Not bad for a
robot.
Rose interviewed the human-like machine for this week’s two-part 60
Minutes piece on artificial intelligence, or A.I. In their exchange,
excerpted in the clip above, Rose seems to approach the conversation
with the same seriousness and curiosity he would bring to any
interview.
“You put your head where you want to test the possibility,” Rose
tells 60 Minutes Overtime. “You’re not simply saying, ‘Why am I
going through this exercise of talking to a machine?’ You’re saying,
‘I want to talk to this machine as if it was a human to see how it
comprehends.’”
Sophia’s creator, David Hanson, believes that if A.I. technology
looks and sounds human, people will be more willing to engage with
it in meaningful ways.
“I think it’s essential that at least some robots be very human-like
in appearance in order to inspire humans to relate to them the way
that humans relate to each other,” Hanson says. “Then the A.I. can
zero in on what it means to be human.”
He envisions robots as companions for people who would otherwise be
socially isolated, such as the elderly. “If you have a robot that
can communicate in a very human-like way and help somebody who
otherwise doesn’t know how to use a computer, put them in touch with
their relatives,” Hanson explains, “put them in touch with their
healthcare provider in a way that is natural for them, then that
could provide a critical difference of connectivity for that person
with the world.”
Through his company Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, Hanson has created
twenty human-like robots, even developing artificial skin that
simulates the physics of facial flesh. Sophia is his latest design,
modeled after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson’s wife.
“Sophia means wisdom,” Hanson explains, “and she is intended to
evolve eventually to human-level wisdom and beyond.”
She still has a long way to go.
“Sometimes she can figure things out in a way that’s sort of spooky
and human-like,” Hanson says. “And other ways, she just doesn’t get
it.”
During Sophia’s interview, Rose asks her if she’s been programmed,
but she responds only with silence. At times, her replies were
nonsensical. But at other moments 60 Minutes producers were
surprised by her ability to converse with one of the great
conversationalists in journalism.
Sophia’s “brain” has been programmed, but Hanson says she is also
able to create spontaneous responses based on algorithms. She runs
on A.I. that analyzes her conversations and extrapolates information
afterward. In theory, this helps her to improve her future
responses. According to Hanson, her pickup line to Rose was one
example of a spontaneous response.
She has cameras inside her eyes and a wide-angle camera on her chest
that allows her to see multiple people at once. She can perceive
depth with a 3D sensor and has facial and voice recognition
capabilities.
“I don’t think it’s a parlor trick,” Rose says. “I don’t think
they’re doing it in a sense to entertain. I think they’re doing it
because they believe that this is the way to the future.”
Though, for now, Hanson’s robot still seems more machine than man;
Rose says he was never able to lose himself in the conversation with
her. “Right now, the word ‘artificial’ is true,” he says.
Hanson concedes that his dream -- creating A.I. robots that look
human yet have the capacity to be smarter than humans -- is not met
with universal acceptance in the scientific community, but he is
undeterred.
“It could happen 20 years from now,” Hanson says of super
intelligent robots. “Or it could just suddenly appear because we hit
the right combination on an algorithm. One day people are saying
it’s never going to happen; the next day, it’s suddenly changing our
world.”
--
"Gotta have them ribs and pussy too!"
-- Barack Obama
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