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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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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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.
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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.
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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 was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.