{"id":89550,"date":"2017-11-17T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89550"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:03:26","slug":"sophia-the-robot-its-all-in-the-name-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89550","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SOPHIA&#8221; THE ROBOT: It&#8217;s all in the name (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57926\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4131E2FF00000578-0-image-a-42_1496927885889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57926\" class=\"wp-image-57926 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4131E2FF00000578-0-image-a-42_1496927885889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Sophia<\/strong><\/em> the talking robot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/2017\/11\/sophia-the-robot-its-all-in-the-name\/\">TMR<\/a> Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/p>\n<p>There are very good reasons why the inventors of <em><strong>Sophia<\/strong><\/em> the talking robot gave her that name.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sophia<\/strong><\/em> is the name for the Greek Goddess of Wisdom.\u00a0 And the inventors would like everyone to know that <strong><em>Sophia<\/em><\/strong> the robot is also wise &#8230; and benevolent &#8230; and goddess-like.\u00a0 Therefore, there&#8217;s nothing to worry about.\u00a0 She can do no wrong&#8212;except when she blows a circuit or two and goes on an uncontrollable rampage in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the lab techs will no longer be around to provide the testimony as to why the laboratory blew up.\u00a0 \u00a0Kind of sounds like a Dr. Frankenstein project, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=21257\">Have the power elites already created their Frankenstein?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/2017\/11\/sophia-the-robot-its-all-in-the-name\/\">The Millennium Report<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 17, 2017<\/p>\n<p>N.B. To watch <em><strong>Sophia<\/strong><\/em> the robot in action, please see the videos posted below.\u00a0\u00a0First, it would be helpful to read the following post:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/2017\/11\/were-all-getting-played-by-sophia-the-robot\/\">We\u2019re All Getting Played by Sophia the Robot<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Watch this viral video of Sophia \u2014 the talking AI robot that is so lifelike humans are freaking out<\/h2>\n<p>Justin Maiman<br \/>\nBusiness Insider<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you like human beings?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love them,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not sure I understand why yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not an altogether terrible answer from Sophia, a robot that uses an early form of artificial intelligence, in an interview with Business Insider last week at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Our UK editor-in-chief, Jim Edwards, caught up with her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/interview-with-sophia-ai-robot-hanson-said-it-would-destroy-humans-2017-11\">for this interview<\/a>\u00a0that has gone viral on Facebook with more than 18 million views and 215,000 shares.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/FhTy485R-puACk8ZV.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Edwards&#8217; takeaway: Sophia&#8217;s responses were good enough that &#8220;conversational artificial intelligence&#8221; is within our grasp. The animated head and torso were made by Hanson Robotics and are on a world tour demonstrating that AI is here and will be just great!<\/p>\n<p>Or that, as Elon Musk once tweeted, AI could be more dangerous than nukes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/JVDtisyt-puACk8ZV.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sophia-ai-robot-video-viral-future-tech-2017-11\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sophia-ai-robot-video-viral-future-tech-2017-11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}