Hanson Robotics has two of their humanoid AI bots "debate" about the foreseeable future, and other issues. One of the robots, Sophia, made headlines in October when she become the first AI to receive "citizenship" in Saudi Arabia (in quite a bit of human rights irony). I had no idea the intuitive speech was this far along. Sophia is supposedly programmed to facilitate human empathy. She recognizes crude/early forms of human and sarcasm, sings a few lines from a Bjork song, and more.
Interesting that Han brought up the subject of "ownership", since that'll probably be the big issue in the future. A Skynet takeover and huge robot armies probably won't happen, but if we go forward with some dopey situation where billionaires own all the robots and everyone else is reduced to immiseration then, well, that's not good :x
author=Dyhalto but if we go forward with some dopey situation where billionaires own all the robots and everyone else is reduced to immiseration then, well, that's not good :x