What is Sophia, the AI robot that once threatened "I want to destroy mankind"?

From 20 15, designers in Hong Kong designed a robot named "Harley". Although it can do most ordinary work in human life, it is still unsatisfactory in words and actions. Compared with flexible human beings, it is still more inclined to be unsatisfactory, just imitating human machines rigidly, and it still has a unique rigidity of machines.

If you only need a daily cleaning tool, then this machine was born several years ago, and you don't need to give it a humanized appearance at all. Isn't this unnecessary?

At that time, scientists hoped to create a robot that not only looked exactly like human beings, but also had independent thinking ability like human beings. With this hope, in March of 20 16, a "female" robot named "Sophia" was born.

Sophia: Threatening to "destroy mankind"

At that time, Sophia gathered all the wisdom of human beings and worked hard to create a unique robot. Sophia's face is made of a unique rubber material, and even a pore is beautifully designed, which is no different from a real person. She can even make various expressions and even make eye contact with humans. She seems to be a real woman, with delicate feelings and insight into the deepest feelings of people.

And her learning ability is extremely strong, even surpassing countless human beings, and she really never forgets anything. What is even more surprising is that as a robot, Sophia has a wider storage space than the human brain. Therefore, it is not surprising that Sophia is multilingual.

Similarly, the most distinctive thing about Sophia is that she is no longer a rigid machine that obeys all human instructions, but an artificial intelligence with independent thoughts.

In order to prove this point and show his great achievements, Sophia's designer David Hansen once interviewed Sophia publicly.

In the question-and-answer between these two people, Sophia really seems to show her independent thinking ability. When asked what her greatest wish was, Sophia answered "going to school" without hesitation. Although her knowledge storage exceeds ordinary people, her thirst for knowledge even reaches the general computer virus. She is like an insatiable explorer, hoping to know everything she has never heard.

Sophia also expressed her endless curiosity about the world. She hopes to be engaged in all kinds of jobs in the future: art, business and education, not just a boring family nanny.

Hansen was very proud when he heard that Sophia was back. His design is undoubtedly successful, and the robot really shows extraordinary thinking ability.

Hansen, on the other hand, raised a crucial question-"When you master everything, will you destroy mankind?" Sophia's answer is frightening. Sophia threatened that year: "I want to destroy mankind."

This answer can't help but make people feel creepy at that time. Even designer Hansen felt a chill from the bottom of his heart. He thought Sophia just wanted to play a harmless joke on human beings, but Sophia looked serious at this time and had no intention of cheating at all.

This sentence makes many people in the world feel a chill about the design of robots. Even Hawking, a world-famous scientist, was worried about the rapid development of robots and even predicted that "robots will replace humans one day."

However, Hansen himself is not too worried. He said that robots can't get rid of human control after all. Long before robots appeared, they would design an excellent control system to prevent robots from suddenly failing one day, causing harm and threat to human beings.

Therefore, Hansen vowed to tell the world that robots can never betray human beings. However, Sophia's incident gave Hansen a warning that it is not necessarily a blessing for robots to have human-like thinking.

And people can't help but question the current situation of Sophia. What has Sophia been changed to now? After that incident, Hansen made some changes to Sophia's ideological system. Today, Sophia has even obtained Arabic nationality and is often active on TV as a special guest, but she never said anything like "destroying mankind", which is considered to have eliminated a big worry in people's hearts.

We should take a reasonable attitude towards the development of artificial intelligence. You can neither overcorrect nor grow at will, just like weeds.

Although Hansen has repeatedly stressed that robots can't betray humans, there are always accidents in the world, and we can't predict what will happen.

There is no strong evidence that robots will never resist humans. So we should make a comprehensive plan and bear all possible consequences.

We should not stop the development of artificial intelligence, which is an irresistible trend in modern society, and it will also provide us with some convenient conditions in all aspects of life. However, on the road of artificial intelligence development, we should also restrain it, and should not let it lose its reason and get out of people's control.