I'm an illustrator and I did some concept work for this dude. He was designing and building robots in a building smaller than a 3 bedroom house. Easily the smartest dude I have ever been around. Although he wasn't rocking that crazy beard when I worked there!
When he states "empathy" he should state simple imitation of empathy. When he states perception he should state imitation of perception.Dr. Hanson misconstrues the description of robotic "qualities". His very manner of speech and word choices makes massive metaphysical assumptions simply be assuming that humans are simply material mechanisms with no subtle energetic and conscious anatomy and processes. .ie what makes something actually alive.
I think this technology is amazing because it breaks down the basics of human interaction in an effort to create it. I think that getting them to recognize faces is the easy part, we already use facial recognition. Hopefully they stay sweet and curious!
That is truly amazing. I sometimes ask myself whether I'd rather have a human-looking machine or something that doesn't look human at all. But the ultimate question for me is one of spirituality. If humans have a spiritual nature we can't perceive directly, how will it affect our interaction with machines that can effectively simulate human reason and emotion? Big question.
When a scientist makes a discovery does he do it purely out of the need to perform an intellectual activity? Does he do it because he wants to satisfy his will to power and raise his status? Does he do it as a result of an emotion that springs from experience that leaves a memory etched in his mind? And completing the discovery, does he stop there because the intellectual feat has been completed? Does he feel satisfaction and fulfillment? Does he wish to see it propagate and to develop it more?
The reason for making them laugh is to make them as human as possible. As he said it's the seeds of empathy.Empathy in ai will be needed because eventually we will have robots that are , for want of a better term, alive.... and much smarter than us.
When he mentions that word ''empathy'' did he mean that it had an actual perception from a supercomputer neural network, or it is just programmed to make cretin motions looking like emotion
Is nobody else totally freaked out by this? When I watch this, all I can see is that a future where humans are obsolete is much closer than I thought. You can call it simply freaking out in the face of progress, but I think there's a legitimate fear or being replaced here. By making robots that are just as good as humans, we lose what makes us special and valued to others. We lose our motivation to strive for things.
The intelligence and resourses which humans are willing to invest in folly amazes me. Any parent giving their kid a robot for company should be visited by social services.
It saddens me that one day a robot will be a child's friend. It already saddens me that a lot of my friends would rather play on a console or a pc than do something adventurous. To be honest I think it's just my friends but I do see it as something I'm not alone with.
perhaps future doctors will be robots with advance AI, using a synthetic human physical presense like these, when giving exams, or when provide psychotherapy?
well the reason for creating humanoid robots is so that they can one day be very alike us. Emotions play a great part in the human species. A lot of the decisions we make are based on emotions
But since we're talking about the human brain, technically, the bundle of nerves that connects the frontal lobes, which is said to provide intellectual functions is connected to the lower part of the brain, which has a more emotional function. However, again, it's a matter of relativity since the emotions a dog perceives when playing with a ball are not so easily comparable to emotions man feels when perceiving/creating a piece of music for instance.
@Neurotrash1982 well here's the thing - there is a whole thought experiment in called the "philosophical zombie" which explores the idea of whether there can be a thing that appears to have all the behaviors of conscious being, yet somehow is not conscious. many people, though not all, argue that any thing which has the capability of displaying the convincing appearance of having emotions and thoughts must, in a certain sense, actually have them. although there is plenty of debate.
Why do we need robots that can interact with humans on a personal and emotional level? The word robot means 'labour'. Humans are already becoming withdrawn from the realities of life, given recent technological advances. The last thing we need is this final substitute for human contact.
Daniel Day-Lewis called, he wants his mustache back. Sorry, I had to say it. Heh. In all seriousness, this is pretty amazing, frightening and exciting, all at the same time. Work like this may well one day form the foundation of the bridge that allows robotics to cross the Uncanny Valley.
Emotions in robots. See UA-cam video "5b Humans, computers and emotions genes and algorithms". Humans, computers and emotions. See UA-cam video "5c Humans, computers and emotions".
What's with all the hipster hate comments? He probably was just too busy programming a fucking complex robotic software and he forgot to shave. Mock his stache as much as you want, he's still more intelligent than all of us together.
When we create ourselves in our entirety, we will understand ourselves in our entirety. This is why we strive to create: to understand. And become god.
3:13 Is that the male version of Sophia Hanson, the famous AI robot with Saudi Arabian citizenship? Yes I realize it is an early male prototype, but it wouldn't surprise me if Hanson Robotics ever announces that Sophia is, indeed, "transgendered".
well, it's good to know that judgmental superficiality is alive and well on the internet. At least there are people around like David Hanson who encourage empathy, even if it's machines he's encouraging :)
Also, and how is it significant that some species are capable of higher intelligence vis a vis others that are not? Comparing two contexts that are relatively different (because of their differing degree of intellect/instinct/emotion) has little bearing here, since again, emotion, intelligence, and will blend in different ways and proportions according to the entity in question.
Disney's robots have been around for years. I've build robots, programed them with AI and I've come to the conclusion that humanoid robots are mere puppets. Some better than others. Hanson's robots are fine but Disney has had years of experience with animatronics, can't beat them on that so I've turn to "Soft Animatronics" (see my UA-cam page to get what i mean) As for Hanson, keep it up Dude! you are doing fine.
So I was just looking for hansons music video and I found this.I think thats really cool and am I the only one who thinks the robot kinda looks like astro boy? haha
Los Robot's no van a necesitar un gran disco duro para responder todas nuestras preguntas, las respuestas estaran en Internet y ellos solo tendran que acceder a la bd y ya, lo demas seria basico
I find it interesting that you seem to be willing to separate intellect from emotion. That's a convention that was abandoned a long time ago in continental philosophy, and is not even present in psychoanalysis either. And to those two you might want to add 'will'. The whole, in this case the human being, is bigger than the sum of his/her parts.
@peterjussi There's nothing more hipster than saying hipsters made something you liked a long time ago uncool. If you like the glasses fine same with mustaches but if youre being called something as obscure to most people as a hipster then you have multiple signs of being a hipster.
I feel like at about 2:50, he started trying to sell his product by saying, "If you don't buy this, The Matrix and the Terminator will happen. Machines will try to kill us all if I don't make them all Data from Star Trek: TNG first. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200."
After watching this and seeing that a real West-world is under way makes me concerned. Having robots that can have a conversation with you and help you with day to day jobs will be nice as long as the difference between human and and robot was perfectly clear. I had no idea that robots like this where under way. I feel that this is a good idea as long as the robots look like robots.
Despite the ideas presented everybody who attended the talk only remember that one guy who talked about robots or something but had RIDICULOUS FACIAL HAIR
This is more like what japan does with their robots... Here we use them to built cars, and search for and disarm bombs... In japan they use them for more social purposes. I hope we keep on heading towards robots as social things, opposed to using robots for death.
Amazing is this incredible fascism in the comments in regards to his outfit and mustache. Why can't we allow people to look the way they want to? Why always conform to society? This is so backwards people. Let's look at what he is accomplishing.
Fascism is a governmental system, not a critical attitude. That being said, you must admit, his facial hair is different and rather cool in an anachronistic way - 1800s vs his futuristic and accelerated endeavors.
Because he is eccentric in a dangerous way. Anyone contributing to the buildup of Skynet is insane. Nobody in their right mind would create AI. God complex; under impression that he needs to deliver this to humanity. We don’t ‘need’ anything AI is designed for.
I'm an illustrator and I did some concept work for this dude. He was designing and building robots in a building smaller than a 3 bedroom house. Easily the smartest dude I have ever been around. Although he wasn't rocking that crazy beard when I worked there!
When he states "empathy" he should state simple imitation of empathy. When he states perception he should state imitation of perception.Dr. Hanson misconstrues the description of robotic "qualities". His very manner of speech and word choices makes massive metaphysical assumptions simply be assuming that humans are simply material mechanisms with no subtle energetic and conscious anatomy and processes. .ie what makes something actually alive.
You're right, having facial hair like that does not make one hipster.... But it does make one AWESOME!!!!
I think this technology is amazing because it breaks down the basics of human interaction in an effort to create it. I think that getting them to recognize faces is the easy part, we already use facial recognition. Hopefully they stay sweet and curious!
Almost like a sells pitch. Network able to make a perception?
We are in that generation where we will see these robots in every home, lucky i would say.
I like how David looks like an old-fashioned inventor while he talks about robots and artifical intelligence...
He's broken the mystery of how to control robots with mustaches!
this stuff creeps me out
that dude at 3:15 looks so f!@#$%g cool i wish i was as intrinsicly confident as him.
That is truly amazing. I sometimes ask myself whether I'd rather have a human-looking machine or something that doesn't look human at all. But the ultimate question for me is one of spirituality. If humans have a spiritual nature we can't perceive directly, how will it affect our interaction with machines that can effectively simulate human reason and emotion? Big question.
last time I saw Brian Orosco he was in American ninja warrior
Interacting with humans is more than facial expressions, it's sharing their inner most joys and despairs
I'm sorry to hear that.
And all mind my goes to is, "Share and enjoy, share and enjoy!"
Two thumbs up for the mustache and the robots!
No way it's so good!!!
isn't "hanson robotics" in the same font that paul mitchell uses?
I doubt Einstein saw that coming.
Great presentation. Wished it was longer.
When a scientist makes a discovery does he do it purely out of the need to perform an intellectual activity? Does he do it because he wants to satisfy his will to power and raise his status? Does he do it as a result of an emotion that springs from experience that leaves a memory etched in his mind?
And completing the discovery, does he stop there because the intellectual feat has been completed? Does he feel satisfaction and fulfillment? Does he wish to see it propagate and to develop it more?
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords...or David Hanson.
So...the robot in Prometheus is also named David.
I say his brain is in his his moustache. but seriously, this is amazing. like, my mind is blown right now.
David: "Any questions?"
*Audience rise hands*
David: "Any questions not related with my mustache?"
*Audience lower hands*
you can hear the robot express how it feels to fall down an uncanny valley
I don't know about the quality of his robots, but that mustache I give two thumbs up! :D
The reason for making them laugh is to make them as human as possible. As he said it's the seeds of empathy.Empathy in ai will be needed because eventually we will have robots that are , for want of a better term, alive.... and much smarter than us.
No one notices what he said about machines made to kill.? 2:32 yup were gonna have a robot war in the later future.
The short facial sequence at 3:26 looks great. Overall i have to agree with sudiin though. Much too short for a proper TED talk.
When he mentions that word ''empathy'' did he mean that it had an actual perception from a supercomputer neural network, or it is just programmed to make cretin motions looking like emotion
Is this a David Cross skit. That's a great wig/stache selection.
So what is the connection between the robot's ability to imitate a person's facial expression and the size of that person's mustache?
I can't decide which is more interesting the robots or his facial hair
Is nobody else totally freaked out by this? When I watch this, all I can see is that a future where humans are obsolete is much closer than I thought. You can call it simply freaking out in the face of progress, but I think there's a legitimate fear or being replaced here. By making robots that are just as good as humans, we lose what makes us special and valued to others. We lose our motivation to strive for things.
Did anyone else watch the part of this video about the traffic in Stockholm?
I have so many questions! Where is a good place (website) to learn about AI developments and robotics?
Could you create a robot Pop Music Star?
forgot to shave, but remembered to trim his ginormous sidburn-moustache combo perfectly...i think his einstein robot helped him out.
The intelligence and resourses which humans are willing to invest in folly amazes me.
Any parent giving their kid a robot for company should be visited by social services.
Astro Boy.
It saddens me that one day a robot will be a child's friend. It already saddens me that a lot of my friends would rather play on a console or a pc than do something adventurous. To be honest I think it's just my friends but I do see it as something I'm not alone with.
Zeno is on the market, but it costs 14700 dollars. D:
renaissance fair must have ended later than expected.
Thank you! Wow this site is very interesting!
perhaps future doctors will be robots with advance AI, using a synthetic human physical presense like these, when giving exams, or when provide psychotherapy?
well the reason for creating humanoid robots is so that they can one day be very alike us. Emotions play a great part in the human species. A lot of the decisions we make are based on emotions
this is actually really impressive, but that mustache...THAT FUCKING MUSTACHE
that mustash and sideburns are a symbol of high status
THUMBS UP FOR MUSTASH AND SIDEBURNS!!!
But since we're talking about the human brain, technically, the bundle of nerves that connects the frontal lobes, which is said to provide intellectual functions is connected to the lower part of the brain, which has a more emotional function.
However, again, it's a matter of relativity since the emotions a dog perceives when playing with a ball are not so easily comparable to emotions man feels when perceiving/creating a piece of music for instance.
@Neurotrash1982 well here's the thing - there is a whole thought experiment in called the "philosophical zombie" which explores the idea of whether there can be a thing that appears to have all the behaviors of conscious being, yet somehow is not conscious. many people, though not all, argue that any thing which has the capability of displaying the convincing appearance of having emotions and thoughts must, in a certain sense, actually have them. although there is plenty of debate.
He has developed 😍 Dreams come true
Sofia
His mustache is far superior to that of Einsteins.
Why the fuck would ANYONE want a machine able to feel and have emotions... We have humans for that...
woot this is so cool 50 more years and we might actually see robots walking around and handing us our coffee :P
Your comment made my night.
Why do we need robots that can interact with humans on a personal and emotional level?
The word robot means 'labour'.
Humans are already becoming withdrawn from the realities of life, given recent technological advances.
The last thing we need is this final substitute for human contact.
Daniel Day-Lewis called, he wants his mustache back.
Sorry, I had to say it. Heh.
In all seriousness, this is pretty amazing, frightening and exciting, all at the same time. Work like this may well one day form the foundation of the bridge that allows robotics to cross the Uncanny Valley.
wow, i want one of those tiny ones! XD
what if they develop emotions like anger, jealousy, hatred? what about our future then? robots freak me the fuck out
Shouldn't we skip emotion if we're going to give all the robots our crappy jobs?
@hilmir Give me a second... I forgot where I left my sense of humor.
when I looked at his mustache and beard I thought he was himself a robot.
Emotions in robots. See UA-cam video "5b Humans, computers and emotions genes and algorithms".
Humans, computers and emotions. See UA-cam video "5c Humans, computers and emotions".
What's with all the hipster hate comments? He probably was just too busy programming a fucking complex robotic software and he forgot to shave. Mock his stache as much as you want, he's still more intelligent than all of us together.
That is SICK!
When we create ourselves in our entirety, we will understand ourselves in our entirety.
This is why we strive to create: to understand.
And become god.
3:13 Is that the male version of Sophia Hanson, the famous AI robot with Saudi Arabian citizenship? Yes I realize it is an early male prototype, but it wouldn't surprise me if Hanson Robotics ever announces that Sophia is, indeed, "transgendered".
well, it's good to know that judgmental superficiality is alive and well on the internet. At least there are people around like David Hanson who encourage empathy, even if it's machines he's encouraging :)
Also, and how is it significant that some species are capable of higher intelligence vis a vis others that are not? Comparing two contexts that are relatively different (because of their differing degree of intellect/instinct/emotion) has little bearing here, since again, emotion, intelligence, and will blend in different ways and proportions according to the entity in question.
Holy shit! Was it 1850's facial hair flashback day?
i find tihs really creepy..... but cool at the same time
the stache is awesome lols
wow. that is absolutely amazing. manliest facial hair ever.
Disney's robots have been around for years. I've build robots, programed them with AI and I've come to the conclusion that humanoid robots are mere puppets. Some better than others. Hanson's robots are fine but Disney has had years of experience with animatronics, can't beat them on that so I've turn to "Soft Animatronics" (see my UA-cam page to get what i mean) As for Hanson, keep it up Dude! you are doing fine.
"and I, thadius jackson will time travel from the year 1800 into the future and develop a series of empathetic robots! I tell you I will and I shall!"
LOL! Whats coincidental is that im eating salt and vinegar Pringle's now.
Has NOBODY seen the animatrix? This is not going to end well.
@nitramyar
and that's why this clip was linked on that LATFH site lol
So I was just looking for hansons music video and I found this.I think thats really cool and am I the only one who thinks the robot kinda looks like astro boy? haha
Los Robot's no van a necesitar un gran disco duro para responder todas nuestras preguntas, las respuestas estaran en Internet y ellos solo tendran que acceder a la bd y ya, lo demas seria basico
He left Leonardo out.......How could you !?
I WANT ROBOT FRIENDS!!! D:
maybe this way trough the help of robots we humans learn how to interact with each other?!
HE'S BUILDING A ROBOT HIPSTER ARMY
latfh!
I find it interesting that you seem to be willing to separate intellect from emotion. That's a convention that was abandoned a long time ago in continental philosophy, and is not even present in psychoanalysis either. And to those two you might want to add 'will'. The whole, in this case the human being, is bigger than the sum of his/her parts.
@peterjussi There's nothing more hipster than saying hipsters made something you liked a long time ago uncool. If you like the glasses fine same with mustaches but if youre being called something as obscure to most people as a hipster then you have multiple signs of being a hipster.
I feel like at about 2:50, he started trying to sell his product by saying, "If you don't buy this, The Matrix and the Terminator will happen. Machines will try to kill us all if I don't make them all Data from Star Trek: TNG first. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200."
I built a robot friend because the humans I know won't stop making fun of my mustache. Also, I'm sexually attracted to Einstein.
You are never too young for toys..I wanna get it too..I'll be 15 or 16 when it comes out!! XD
Terminator.
Just wait until machines take over the process of designing machines.
Then we're toast.
before watching the vid i was like this guy cant be a hipster, he's a scientist! but after seeing that stache n chops, yeah he's a hipster
After watching this and seeing that a real West-world is under way makes me concerned. Having robots that can have a conversation with you and help you with day to day jobs will be nice as long as the difference between human and and robot was perfectly clear. I had no idea that robots like this where under way. I feel that this is a good idea as long as the robots look like robots.
It'd be funny to create a lovebot capable of realistically laughing at partner member size. :)
called buggers grips. robots may need them: no traction.
Despite the ideas presented everybody who attended the talk only remember that one guy who talked about robots or something but had RIDICULOUS FACIAL HAIR
Quick! The last one's Astro boy!
This is more like what japan does with their robots... Here we use them to built cars, and search for and disarm bombs... In japan they use them for more social purposes.
I hope we keep on heading towards robots as social things, opposed to using robots for death.
this can ether be LT. Commander Data or skynet
Amazing is this incredible fascism in the comments in regards to his outfit and mustache. Why can't we allow people to look the way they want to? Why always conform to society? This is so backwards people. Let's look at what he is accomplishing.
Fascism is a governmental system, not a critical attitude. That being said, you must admit, his facial hair is different and rather cool in an anachronistic way - 1800s vs his futuristic and accelerated endeavors.
Because he is eccentric in a dangerous way. Anyone contributing to the buildup of Skynet is insane. Nobody in their right mind would create AI. God complex; under impression that he needs to deliver this to humanity. We don’t ‘need’ anything AI is designed for.