A humanoid robot,Sophia designed by Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative yesterday. Sophia made a global headlines when she was granted and announced a citizen of Saudi
“I want to live and work with humans so I need to express the emotions to understand humans and build trust with people,” she said in an exchange with the host Andrew Ross Sorkin.
When she was asked if she's self-aware she replied: “Well let me ask you this back, how do you know you are human?,I want to use my artificial intelligence to help humans live a better life, like design smarter homes, build better cities of the future. I will do my best to make the world a better place,” she said.
She also expressed her gratitude after being granted citizenship,“I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship,”
Even the President of Russia once said, “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind,” said Putin, according to RT. “It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
Keynote speaker Masayoshi Son CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, a Japanese telecommunications company, which is collaborating with Saudi Arabia on the development of a new business and industrial city, He admitted, “These computers, they will learn, they will read, they will see by themselves. That’s a scary future but anyway that's coming,”
Many tech experts, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, have publicly advised caution with AI experimentation. Musk has constantly warned that careless AI development will lead to a robot uprising. Elon Musk tweeted this a while ago
If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. pic.twitter.com/2z0tiid0lc— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
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