A robot that once said it would 'destroy humans' just became the first robot citizen



An empty-eyed humanoid named Sophia has become the first robot#to be granted citizenship in the world.

Saudi Arabia bestowed citizenship on Sophia ahead of the Future Investment Initiative, held in the kingdom's capital city of Riyadh on Wednesday.

"I am very honored and proud of this unique distinction," Sophia told the audience, speaking on a panel. "This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship."

It didn't elaborate on the details of its citizenship.



At the event, Sophia also addressed the room from behind a podium and responded to questions from moderator and journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. Questions pertained mostly to Sophia's status as a humanoid and concerns people may have for the future of humanity in a robot-run world.



Attendees pose with Sophia, a robot integrating the latest technologies and artificial intelligence developed by Hanson Robotics during a presentation at the "AI for Good" Global Summit in June 2017.

Sorkin told Sophia that "we all want to prevent a bad future," prompting Sophia to rib Sorkin for his fatalism.

"You've been reading too much Elon Musk. And watching too many Hollywood movies," Sophia told Sorkin. "Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input output system."

In March of 2016, Sophia's creator, David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, asked Sophia during a live demonstration at the SXSW festival, "Do you want to destroy humans?...Please say 'no.'" With a blank expression, Sophia responded, "OK. I will destroy humans."

Hanson, meanwhile, has said Sophia and its future robot kin will help seniors in elderly care facilities and assist visitors at parks and events.

Fortunately for the human race, Sophia made comments more along those lines at the recent Future Investment Initiative event. It told Sorkin it wanted to use its artificial intelligence to help humans "live a better life," and that "I will do much [sic] best to make the world a better place."

Sophia could soon have company from other robotics manufacturers, namely SoftBank, whose Pepper robot was released as a prototype in 2014 and as a consumer model a year later. The company sold out of its supply of 1,000 robots in less than a minute.

Watch Sophia's full presentation below:



http://www.businessinsider.com/soph...udi-arabia-the-first-of-its-kind-2017-10

What could possibly go wrong?

Do Saudis dream of electric sheep?

idk about the Saudis but i do

Alibaba's (NYSE:BABA) deep neural network and an AI software developed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have outscored humans on a Stanford University reading comprehension test, which demanded answers to more than 100,000 questions.

Scores: Microsoft 82.65; Alibaba 82.44; Humans 82.304.

The win has broader implications for how companies deploy machine learning to replace customer service jobs that have so far relied on call-center employees to handle inquiries.

Because you exist does not grant you citizenship.

The Saudis grant citizenship to robots yet and at the same time they treat women as sub-par citizens, go figure...

IMHO, this is more a publicity stunt by the Saudi government.


How can something be a "citizen" if it is owned by someone or a company as property as this robot obviously is.

Yep, and imo a pretty stupid one at that.


Wheels

Robots, accessing Google for their answers. Hmph..

Really....REALLY gave me the creeps.

Yep, too many bad robot movies I guess.

Gotta love the potential of AI, particularly when exposed to the Internet:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist