David Hanson Warns That We Only Have A Few Years Left To Teach Robotics To Be Humane

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David Hanson recently gave a thought-provoking talk about his work at Hanson robotics, and on the future of human-robotic interaction.  According to Hanson, we may only have a few short years to teach robots how to be human, before they are much smarter than we are.

At a local TEDx event in Hong Kong. Robotics pioneer David Hanson gave a thought-provoking talk about his work at Hanson robotics, and on the future of human-robotic interaction.

Hanson has long believed that robotics and artificial intelligence can really benefit our lives. The robots that are designed by Hanson Robotics are used in the a number of internationally recognized Universities in order to serve a large variety of science and engineering research from autism therapy to cognitive science as well as mechanical engineering.

"If we can actually teach machines to be creative; teach them values - then we can form relationships with them.  I think that is essential."

An award winning artist, scientist and creator of human robots, Hanson is the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, a company that aims to create robots as socially adept as any human being.

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At Hanson Robotics, he developed a robotic facial hardware that establishes eye contact, recognizes faces and carries out natural spoken conversation. This was recently demonstrated with the Diego-San robot built for the University of California, San Diego.  Hanson hopes these robotic faces prove useful to cognitive science and psychology and to the entertainment industry.

"If we can actually teach machines to be creative; teach them values - then we can form relationships with them.  I think that is essential," he says.

The end of the talk presents some of the most important aspects of what exponential technological growth means for artificial intelligence and robotics.  According to Hanson, as he has evaluated the trajectory of these technologies, we may approach human level intelligence by as early as 2025 or 2030.  Soon after that, these systems will be genius machines, with intelligence much greater than biological humans.  These dates coincide very closely to Ray Kurzweil's predictions of the Singularity.

"We want to teach them the deepest, and most kind and passionate values we can.  We may only have a few years to teach them these fundamental principles of character.  In the meantime, we can use them as characters for experimental learning applications."


SOURCE  TEDx Talks

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