David Hanson
David Hanson
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We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
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Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
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I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.
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Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
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Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.
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We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.
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was losing altitude, trying to maintain altitude and trim, trying to find a place to land. I didn't want to land on the freeway. I would have endangered so many people.
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There is just too much at stake for us not to have it.
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I remember scootching down in the cockpit. I was level with the ground. (The plane) did a lot of things. I don't know a lot,
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Direct rule is not the right way for Northern Ireland to be governed. Devolution is. We want to -- and we will -- hand back to politicians as soon as we can.
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It's too expensive to hire the wrong person. Anything we can do to help us build the right team is worth it.