What is the author’s answer?
What does Melissa want to know?
What is the position of more optimistic experts?
What is the question that experts are divided on?
According to scientists, how likely is it for robots to suddenly become conscious?
What is the position of skeptical experts?
What evidence do they use to justify their enthusiasm?
whether AI robots could really become conscious
whether they could create a conscious machine on purpose
that some AI robots have already achieved some level of self-awareness
as likely as a monkey accidentally building a robot by shaking a box of parts
that since we don’t understand how our own brains achieve consciousness, we can’t replicate the process
the fact that in one experiment an AI robot recognized itself and distinguished itself from other robots
that it is highly unlikely
What does one of the items on the list say?
What is Albert’s question?
What is the author’s answer?
What are the Asilomar AI Principles?
What did Stephen Hawking famously say about AI?
whether AI programs will ever turn against humans
that although it is technically possible, we just don’t know if it’s likely
that research funding should be used for AI security, not just AI development
a list of concepts designed to keep AI safe for everyone
that it could be the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity
What answer does the author give?
What does Mori’s graph mean?
Who first used the term and when?
What is Liu’s question?
What happens when we see something that seems human but has unfamiliar features?
Our brains signal that something is wrong with
a Japanese roboticist named Masahiro Mori, in the 1970s
It means that the more human a robot looks. But it is almost completely human, our feelings of familiarity suddenly drop.
The author says that we find robots like Sophia creepy because of their humanoid appearance.
She wants to know why she finds some robots, like Sophia, creepy, but not others.
What does the author tell him?
What is Ray’s question?
Could robots ever develop romantic feelings toward humans?
How does the author define a romantic relationship?
How did humans respond to images of robot hands “feeling” pain in one study?
It’s possible for humans to feel an emotional attachment to a robot, or maybe even love.
as a two-way interaction
probably not
with empathy
He wants to know whether it is possible for a human and a humanoid robot to have a romantic relationship.
How quickly is the technology to make real robot housekeepers advancing?
What do we already have in our homes?
How long do some scientists think it will take for these robots to become common?
What does Sam want to know?
smart gadgets such as automatic vacuum cleaners and refrigerators that order food
only another 10 to 20 years
rapidly
when he can have a humanoid butler in his house