As a related note, most Sophia appearances have nothing to do w OpenCog, but in a series of appearances I made w/ her last fall (e.g. RISE conference in HK, Transvision Madrid, Malta Blockchain Forum, TransTech in Palo Alto) she was running OpenCog as a control system...
But OpenCog wasn't doing anything AGI-ish there, mostly being used as an integrative control system (though it was a struggle to get the codebase to do this sort of realtime-ish control, for sure).... Now we are doing some more cognitive / proto-AGI-ish OpenCog stuff w/ Sophia in the lab, including more motivation-driven action selection, and knowledge-guided stochastic language generation for posing questions to human conversation-partners, etc. This will be rolled out publicly when the time is right ;) ben On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM Stefan Reich via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > > Thanks, very interesting :) > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 02:31, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: >> >> I did not "make" Sophia..... Actually no one person made Sophia, but >> for sure the one who comes closest to deserving that title is Dr. >> David Hanson who sculpted her face and invented the animation tech >> behind her face and leads the company Hanson Robotics that makes >> her... >> >> However -- I was, for a while, the leader of the *software division* >> at Hanson Robotics, managing the team that built the software for >> Sophia.... So I did have a hand in many aspects of Sophia, including >> dialogue, sensation, movement, decision, etc. etc. .... But the >> hardware was built by a different team w/in the company. >> >> I stepped back from that role once I co-founded SingularityNET, as >> running SingularityNET Foundation is now taking most my time ... but I >> am still serving as Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, meaning that >> I'm the one who coordinates the AI aspects of the software behind >> Sophia and the other Hanson robots. There is also an active >> collaboration on OpenCog-and-SingularityNET-for-robotics-and-avatars, >> between the SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics teams... >> >> As it happens, Linas has also contributed to the software underlying >> Sophia here and there ,and helped out Hanson Robotics in other ways... >> >> I relocated to Hong Kong in 2011, and my friend David Hanson moved >> here a few years later to keep me company (OK well there was a little >> more to it than that ;D) and brought his company with him.... It's a >> pretty sensible place for a robotics company because Shenzhen, the >> world's electronics workshop is right across the border.... >> >> -- Ben >> >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:47 AM Linas Vepstas <linasveps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hanson Robotics creates Sophia, not Ben. >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:03 PM Stefan Reich via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I only just found out. >> >> >> >> And this is the list he created? Or no? I'm updating my mental model of >> >> the AGI scene. :) >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Stefan >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Stefan Reich >> >> BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you >> > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + >> > participants + delivery options Permalink >> >> >> -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> http://goertzel.org >> >> "The dewdrop world / Is the dewdrop world / And yet, and yet …" -- >> Kobayashi Issa > > > > -- > Stefan Reich > BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The dewdrop world / Is the dewdrop world / And yet, and yet …" -- Kobayashi Issa ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T1f4972659dbbc002-M6dbc8c971a54975ed2d0b3f7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
