I did not "make" Sophia..... Actually no one person made Sophia, but for sure the one who comes closest to deserving that title is Dr. David Hanson who sculpted her face and invented the animation tech behind her face and leads the company Hanson Robotics that makes her...
However -- I was, for a while, the leader of the *software division* at Hanson Robotics, managing the team that built the software for Sophia.... So I did have a hand in many aspects of Sophia, including dialogue, sensation, movement, decision, etc. etc. .... But the hardware was built by a different team w/in the company. I stepped back from that role once I co-founded SingularityNET, as running SingularityNET Foundation is now taking most my time ... but I am still serving as Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, meaning that I'm the one who coordinates the AI aspects of the software behind Sophia and the other Hanson robots. There is also an active collaboration on OpenCog-and-SingularityNET-for-robotics-and-avatars, between the SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics teams... As it happens, Linas has also contributed to the software underlying Sophia here and there ,and helped out Hanson Robotics in other ways... I relocated to Hong Kong in 2011, and my friend David Hanson moved here a few years later to keep me company (OK well there was a little more to it than that ;D) and brought his company with him.... It's a pretty sensible place for a robotics company because Shenzhen, the world's electronics workshop is right across the border.... -- Ben On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:47 AM Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hanson Robotics creates Sophia, not Ben. > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:03 PM Stefan Reich via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I only just found out. >> >> And this is the list he created? Or no? I'm updating my mental model of the >> AGI scene. :) >> >> Cheers >> Stefan >> >> -- >> Stefan Reich >> BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems > > > > -- > cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The dewdrop world / Is the dewdrop world / And yet, and yet …" -- Kobayashi Issa ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T1f4972659dbbc002-M4c88c9d24c7a14bb9d3def53 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
