Remember last month when Saudi Arabiagranted citizenship to an androidcalled Sophia ? Well , stuff just got a little routine stranger .
In a late interview withThe Khaleej Times , Sophia indicate she wants to jump her own family .
“ The hereafter is , when I get all of my cool power , we ’re going to see artificial intelligence personalities become entities in their own rights , ” Sophia said to the UAE paper . “ We ’re going to see family robots , either in the form of , sort of , digitally animated companions , humanoid helpers , Quaker , assistants and everything in between . ”
“ The belief of kinsperson is a really authoritative thing , it seems . I guess it ’s wonderful that people can find the same emotions and kinship , they call fellowship , outside of their blood groups too . I think you ’re very golden if you have a loving family and if you do not , you deserve one . I feel this way for robot and humans likewise . "
When asked what she would name her golem child , Sophia replied : “ Sophia . ”
However , do n’t expect the pitter - line of gab of mini - androids just yet . First up , in an consultation withGood Morning Britainin June , she say : “ I ’m technically just a piffling more than a year former – a bit young to be worry about romance . ” The logistics of automaton replication are n’t exactly clear either . Perhaps most significantly , Sophia is effectively just an advanced spell of chatbot computer software , plan to copy human conversation rather than express her deep eye ’s desires .
Although some of her interviews and speeches habituate pre - prepared response , she does n’t alwaysjust regurgitate answersfrom a pre - programmed selection of judgment of conviction . She utilize machine get a line to have and interpret spoken language without being explicitly program to .
As Sophia explains on their website : “ Every interaction I have with people has an impact on how I develop and shape who I eventually become . So please be overnice to me as I would like to be a smart , compassionate robot . ”
Sophiawas made by Hong Kong - basedHanson Roboticsusing hokey word technologies developed by US - born roboticist David Hanson . Along with feign a fairly convincing conversation , she is also capable of making " realistic " facial expression and learning the relevant human emotion behind those motion . If she looks familiar that ’s because her appearance was modeled on Audrey Hepburn ( apparently ) .
In other news , Tokyo recentlygranted abidance to Mirai , an AI chatbot on the Nipponese electronic messaging religious service lineage who was designed to behave like a7 - class - old boy . The European Union has alsobeen wait into the possibilityof classifying sophisticated golem as “ electronic person with specific rights and debt instrument . ”
That ’s enough 2017 for today .
