David Hanson
David Hanson
build david develop empathize eventually
I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.
direct hand ireland northern rule soon
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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We have two weeks for it to get cold. In the past we've gone through Saturday night until 4 a.m. making snow and carrying it up the hill. We don't give up.
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The 2012 Games will act as a catalyst for the development of sport in every region and, in the run-up to this event, the Government is committed to getting young people involved in sport from an early age.
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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.
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The people of Northern Ireland and people throughout the United Kingdom want to celebrate George's life in a positive way. He has been one of the greatest footballers that ever lived.
board listening opinion personal power
We are here to communicate with the board members, who we don't think are listening to us. My personal opinion is this is a power play.
declining drinking fact students
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.
stake
There is just too much at stake for us not to have it.
science tinkering
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
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If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
effect people
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
friendly genius machines
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.