I am visiting Sophia the robot today, but I have been wondering if she has any unique skills? Have there been any milestones in AI accomplished with her?
Because the more I read about her, the more I realize that she is just a pretty face ;) and tourism stint. Maybe I am wrong. But her skills are more of supervised learning, I don't even think it is supervised, it even seems scripted. Her jocks seem ahead of time to be learned.<p>What does her citizenship even mean? Does she have the same right as a Saudi woman, which, btw isn't much. Can she have a bank account? etc<p>Has anyone tried the Hanson Robotics API, I heard it's open source?<p>What do you guys know or think?
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For example in this article, the conversation seems scripted:<p>Goertzel then asked Sofia what is her next frontier and what does she want to achieve.<p>"Don't know, maybe the world," she said. "Maybe the world. That was a joke.<p>"Seriously," she continued, "what I really want is to understand people better and to understand myself better. I want to be able to do more things and soon my capabilities will be advanced enough that I will be able to get a job."
I think giving a citizenship to this robot is a publicity stunt, nothing more. They might as well give Cleverbot a citizenship too.<p>I look forward to interacting with self-aware machines (or machines that convincingly appear to be self-aware, at least) someday, but I don't really understand why anyone is paying attention to Sophia.