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| Rise of the Machines? Robot 'Jokes' that She Will Kill Humans
You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone. Just kidding, we are already there. We've been there for a while now. The CNBC headline asked, "Could you fall in love with this robot?" and the outlet also called her "hot," but the real question should be, "Can you see how all of those nightmarish sci-fi movies are about to come true in our lifetimes?"... although I guess the latter would have been an awfully long headline. Meet Sophia, a lifelike robot (partially based on Audrey Hepburn (supposedly) with "realistic" facial expressions and cameras for eyes that "jokes" about destroying humans (at least, I think it was supposed to come off as a joke). Dr. David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, developed Sophia, an android activated on April 19, 2015 that is considered to be one of the most advanced to date as Sophia can use the cameras in her eyes to remember faces and interactions to "get smarter over time". His goal is to make Sophia as "conscious, creative, and capable as any human".