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Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot (futurism.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] dustyData 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That one in particular is actually a relatively old project made to not only talk but look and move, and make facial expressions like a human. It's called Sophia by Hanson robotics. It might've gotten a bit better at chatting with people thanks to LLMs but it is old (they revamp the servos and skin every so often). They use it as a research platform for human robot interaction. It was on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show 7 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

but the aspect of it that is most AI-like is the chat which is from LLMs.

It may have started 7 years ago, but it isn't a new or different technology than LLMs which are impressive but not actual thinking AI despite them presenting it that way and people interpreting it that way