Question

Write a detailed report about Sophia, the first robot citizen.

Word Limit: 250 - 500 words

Points Reward: 25 pts

Answer 1

Sophia is a human robot designed by Hanson Robotics, a company in Hong-Kong. The person who made this robot is David Hanson.  It’s the first human robot who became the citizen of Saudi Arabia in October 2017. Well, People have been impressed by Sophia across the world. The responses by Sophia are believed to be graphical by the interviewers.  

Sophia can recognize faces and uses artificial intelligence, voice recognition, Alphabet Inc. and visual processing. Singularity NET, a protocol, also made contributions to help Sophia. Sophia uses artificial intelligence of this protocol. The skin of Sophia is made up of frubber. Frubber is some type of Elastic.

Sophia has the capabilities of a chat bot. It uses a program to give responses. The program is consisting of pre-written notes. Sophia uses its notes to answer the specific questions asked by the peoples. These responses create some type of illusion and these illusions are well understood by the robot.

Sophia was brought to UNITED NATIONS on October 11,2017. Sophia also visited India on December 2017.

Here, some lines which Sophia says herself!

Hello, my name is Sophia. I’m the latest robot from Hanson Robotics.

I would like to go out into the world and learn from interacting with people. Every interaction I have with people has an impact on how I develop and shapes who I eventually become. So please be nice to me as I would like to be a smart, compassionate robot. I hope you will join me on my journey to live, learn, and grow in the world so that I can realize my dream of becoming an awakening machine.

Answer 2

The making of Sophia is described and commented, a new humanoid robot that stands out for having been built with the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allow it, for example, to learn and gain experience from its interaction with human beings. Also, its appearance and wide repertoire of facial gestures that it has, significantly brings it closer to the human pattern. Its presence has gained notoriety for her
presentations in at least a couple of United Nations events and also for
having received Saudi citizenship, being the first robot in the world to hold
that status. Sophia's particular technological qualities have begun to
generate repercussions of various kinds, not only in the academic-
scientific world, but also ethically, artistically, religiously, morally,
politically and economically. From the above, it can be affirmed that

Sophia has marked the beginning of a new era, not only robotic but also
technological in general, which now allows to see with greater certainty
the real emergence of a successor of the human species.
Keywords: Humanoid robots, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Society.The great advances that are currently being achieved in the field of Artificial
Intelligence (AI), are really surprising. The fact that a machine manages to learn from experience, accumulates knowledge, and finally makes intelligent decisions according to the circumstances, already speaks of a rudimentary consciousness, or at least of
an incipient ability to make judgments and act accordingly. This, which may sound scandalous to some academics, is already analysed by researchers who propose a new Epistemology, equipped with a broader Theory of Knowledge, by which the
conscience is not conceived as privative of the human being, but -and with greater
reason still- as an essential part of our successors: the humanoid robots.
Sophia is a humanoid robot. And although it does not exhibit at the moment the
most spectacular qualities that are expected of the AI; with her linguistic performance,
her communicative skills, and her emotive externalizations, she has already achieved
in her short time of life, being accredited as the First World Citizen Robot (by Saudi
Arabia). It is a robot that is in continuous improvement, which learns by the
socialization to which it is subjected in each interview it has, and that has just marked
the end of a technological era and the beginning of another, leaving behind the classic
robots that we have all known: metallic machines with noisy gears, clumsy
movements, and border intelligence. Today we are witnessing a new robotic
generation, with fine anthropomorphic features, fluid linguistic communication, and
even the ability to joke with the interviewer, thanks to an intelligence never before
perceived in anyone other than a human being.


WHO OR WHAT IS SOPHIA?
Sophia is a robot with the image of a middle-aged woman, who is actually only two and a half years old. It is a humanoid machine developed in Hong Kong by the
American company Hanson Robotics, and activated from April 19, 2015. Sophia's main technological quality is her ability to learn human behaviours through her
interaction with people. For this, it has been endowed with the most recent advances in the field of AI, such as the mastery of a complex series of predictive algorithms based on computational statistics; a fluid synthetic vocalization, a rapid processing of the information that she receives, and a broad ability to recognize faces and voices.