I applaud the Sophia project as a PR stunt, as which it performed exceptionally well. Will Smith talked to Sophia... and he hates robots. (Oh wait, that was his movie character.) I was never sure where Sophia's responses actually came from though.
Am Do., 7. Feb. 2019 14:43 hat Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> geschrieben: > 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-Mb8938c3814b44cc6b7f1346f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
