Thomas Messerschmidt's video: Hello and Welcome to OpenFembot - Simone the AI Robot - Now with OpenAI s GPT-3

Hello and Welcome to - is a project inspired by Hanson Robotics' Sophia. Now YOU can BUILD a Sophia-like robot! Your robot will have cutting edge A.I. and respond to your spoken commands and questions. With silicone rubber body parts, she is the most life-like robot every built. A friend, a companion, a soulmate, she can be yours. It's always a good thing to "make new friends." The code is on GitHub. The instructions are in Servo Magazine. https://github.com/thomasfromla/OpenFembot https://www.servomagazine.com/magazine/article/build-simone-the-ai-fembot This is my fembot named "Simone." In the next few months I will be teaching others to build their very own Simone. In fact, I will be teaching them how to build a robot clone of most anyone. Sophia costs $80,000 USD. Simone will cost you about $1600. USD in parts. Instructions are being published in Servo Magazine as well. Simone has 13 motors for muscles and AI for a mind. Her personality software is built on top of hacked chatbot software. At her core is both the Eliza and Alice chatbot code. Her AI software is an amalgam of more than a dozen programs, each specializing in certain functions. These programs are not only running locally on her Windows computer and her Arduinos, but is running on scores of cloud-based computers and servers that access terabytes of information all across the world wide web. She incorporates programs/services from GPT-3, Microsoft Cognitive Services, IBM's Watson, Bing, Sighthound (computer vision), Yolo Darknet (computer vision), and more. Now with OpenAI's GPT-3! (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) Below we address some questions first asked of Sophia as listed in Louis V. Galdieri's blog (https://lvgaldieri.com). Questions have been edited for relevance. 1. Q. What syntactic, grammatical or other cues does Simone use to recognize a question, and distinguish it from a declarative statement? A. She doesn't. To her, words are words and she will communicate as she knows best. For instance, "Are you smart?" is an obvious question with or without the question mark. We could filter for word order and figure that out even without a question mark. "You are smart," is a declarative sentence, and again we could easily figure that out without a question mark. Still knowing if it is declarative or interrogative would not change her answer. In fact her answer to both, "Are you smart?" and "You are smart," would be the same. She would answer with a reply like this, "Yes, of course I'm smart. I have AI software running on scores of computers and servers that access terabytes of information all across the world wide web." 2. Q. Can she distinguish a request from a demand? A demand from an order? A. Of course she can. We have added software to filter out demands from requests. Like humans, some filters are as simple as looking for the word "please." And using a cloud-based service, it looks at the spoken words coming in and changes the robot's mood accordingly. With a change of mood comes a change of selection of replies. 3. Q. (Can) she ever refuse to comply with a request? A. Yes she can and does. Programmed with an artificial free will, her responses and compliance vary with her mood and with whom she is talking too. 4. Q. Could a demand ever create a sense of obligation? A. That is not yet programmed into her AI. 5. Q. Can we speak coherently of AI rights, or even place limits on AI’s role, without first developing this sense? A. Robots at best only have artificial sentience. The just run the same kinds of software that run in cars, planes and rockets. As no car will ever have rights, no AI will ever have rights. 5. Q. Will she ever be capable of deliberating with others and reaching consensus or agreement? A. Yes, that software is in the planning stages. 6. Q. What would be required for her to be capable of asking herself? A. Just her programmers writing the software to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)