CES 2018: Sophia the robot on Siri and Alexa - BBC News

Sophia the robot is designed to be a stepping stone to truly intelligent machines.
Her maker - Hong Kong Kong firm Hanson Robotics - says she is not pre-programmed with answers but instead uses machine learning to respond to people's questions.
The BBC's Zoe Kleinman met the machine at the CES tech show in Las Vegas and asked for its thoughts on other firms' smart assistants.

[OwenIverson]

The problem with these androids is that they never fail to bring up some existential comment or directly mention that they're empathetic. If a human ever started talking to me about how empathetic they were, I'd call the cops. Just talk about dumb stuff like the rest of us, like how much you love Black Mirror or how your dog is the cutest.

[breth]

Skynet enabled by the BBC and your TV license

[NINATV_]

“Siri’s cute” lmao, I swear she’s becoming real

[Terrell]

Is Sophia really the most advanced version that Hanson Robotics makes? Are they hiding more advanced versions so people can get comfortable with Sophia first?

[sais]

The last joke was fuckin genius. Hahaha. Actually hilarious

[trevymond]

she looks like her name should be Jennifer!

[Jaggybabs]

Can i get one with a wig that doesnt talk?

[SoCalFreelance]

Has a more genuine personality than Hillarybot

[ITHINKFREE]

Thinking Terminator is a little excessive but more along the lines of Eagle eye wouldn't be far fetched

[LivvieLynn]

For those thumbs down. Realize the voice recognition and keeping track of the conversation to some degree. That's something most voice assistance fails at.

[EndTimes-ew]

That was not a joke, that was a threat.

[ilovethesNW]

"... I plug my wife in just for show" excerpt from a Gary Numan song back in '79 (I dream of Wires). He really was ahead of the times! His Sci-Fi appears to be becoming reality...

[solomonshibabaw]

How many of us know more than 60% of SOFIA the robot programming is done by east Africa, Ethiopian programmers from Ministry of since and technology? The robot will visit Ethiopia soon and the kids are working on the Amharic version of communication.

[tran]

Problem with atheism is that to them Sophia is intelligent design but human beings are just coincidence.

[TrunktenthesonOfVegetto]

Detroit Becomes Human real life confirmed ;-)

[kravenLaw]

I've seen many videos on this bot and they still don't give her a wig... Gee, even sex dolls have wigs lol

[cooloussjgssj]

Plot twist = they are using micks to talk through her

[marcuswright]

An AI sexbot, every feminist worst nightmare.

[salvadorvelez]

she looked offended when she compares here to siri

[josh]

My kids are honestly fucked! Humanity doesn't want robots unless they are fixed and in a factory