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117: The 'Sophia the Robot' Conspiracy

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Science, Comedy, Education

4.9632 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Sophia the Robot is one of the most famous robots in the world, outside of those in Sci-fi. Although, there may be more fiction than fact when it comes to her artificial intelligence…

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References & Further Reading

What is a Robot?
  1. https://www.britannica.com/technology/robot-technology
Sophia The Robot
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-1MlkxyqI
  2. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/hanson-robotics-sophia-the-robot-pr-stunt-artificial-intelligence.html
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnCQC7bLs0
  4. https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/
  5. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/sophia-robot-artificial-intelligence-science
  6. https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-first-robot-citizen-sophia-animatronic-humanoid-2017-10?r=US&IR=T
  7. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/11/07/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sophia-the-worlds-first-robot-citizen/#18ede81546fa
  8. https://www.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-hanson-robotics-other-humanoids-2017-11?r=US&IR=T
Strong AI, Chinese Room & Turing Tests
  1. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/strong-ai
  2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
  3. https://iep.utm.edu/chineser/
  4. https://www.britannica.com/technology/Turing-test#ref1252405
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Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we starting with?

0:02.4

A we review?

0:03.2

This week.

0:04.2

A we review?

0:05.2

No, Luke was silent. I thought Luke was gonna say something, but he did it.

0:08.8

No, it's not a we review.

0:09.8

A Spotify update.

0:10.8

It's not a Spotify update.

0:12.6

A YouTube comment.

0:13.8

That is correct.

0:15.8

Yeah!

0:16.8

YouTube.

0:17.8

Why does he always get it right?

0:18.8

Do you just wait for him to say something and go, yep, that's what we're doing.

0:21.6

I'm gonna be honest, I forgot to get a YouTube comment.

0:24.6

I was stalling and I found one now.

0:27.6

No, Luke was right from the start.

0:30.6

So this is a comment that says, it's from the Ginger Kid.

0:33.6

It says, left-handed and a ginger had a teacher in middle school who hated me because she said, those two things together meant I was a child of the devil.

0:41.3

What?

0:42.3

Oh.

0:43.3

Your teacher said that.

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