{"id":330653,"date":"2019-11-10T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/sophia-the-robot-tells-crowded-room-that-it-doesnt-have-sex.php"},"modified":"2019-11-10T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:42:26","slug":"sophia-the-robot-tells-crowded-room-that-it-doesnt-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/sophia-the-robot-tells-crowded-room-that-it-doesnt-have-sex.php","title":{"rendered":"Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn\u2019t Have Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/11\/sophia-robot-announces-room-no-sex-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that \" no. i don do sexual activities. style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>No Thanks<\/h2><p>Sophia, the famous humanoid robot, had an important message for the crowd at the ongoing 2019 Web Summit: it&rsquo;s single but not ready to mingle.<\/p><p>During the summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRF\/status\/1192121396295585792\">Sophia was asked<\/a> whether she &mdash; actually, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence-hype\">let&rsquo;s go with &ldquo;it&rdquo; <\/a>&mdash; has ever been in love. Sophia, a joint project between Hanson Robotics and SingularityNET&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboglobal.com\/insights\/sophia-the-robot-ben-goertzel\/\">AI researchers<\/a>, responded: &ldquo;No. I don&rsquo;t do sexual activities.&rdquo;<\/p><blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It's true&hellip; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/12.0.0-1\/72x72\/1f937-200d-2640-fe0f.png\" alt=\"????\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WebSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WebSummit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kUMaYH7rde\">https:\/\/t.co\/kUMaYH7rde<\/a><\/p><p>&mdash; Sophia the Robot (@RealSophiaRobot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSophiaRobot\/status\/1192188197247209473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><h2>Going Off-Script<\/h2><p>Though Sophia is an incredible piece of animatronic technology, much of what it says during public appearances is at least <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence-hype\">partially scripted in advance<\/a>. As of press time, Hanson Robotics has not responded to Futurism&rsquo;s question about whether that was the case here.<\/p><p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sophia-robot-says-will-destroy-humankind\">robot apocalypse<\/a> is still&nbsp;probably in the distant future, it seems that Sophia is content for now leaving a devastated trail of broken hearts in its wake.<\/p><p><strong>More on Sophia: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sophia-robot-says-will-destroy-humankind\">Sophia The Robot Says She Will Destroy Humankind<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sophia-robot-doesnt-have-sex\">Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn&rsquo;t Have Sex<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>See the rest here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sophia-robot-doesnt-have-sex\" title=\"Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn&rsquo;t Have Sex\">Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn&rsquo;t Have Sex<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No ThanksSophia, the famous humanoid robot, had an important message for the crowd at the ongoing 2019 Web Summit: it&rsquo;s single but not ready to mingle.During the summit, Sophia was asked whether she &mdash; actually, let&rsquo;s go with &ldquo;it&rdquo; &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/sophia-the-robot-tells-crowded-room-that-it-doesnt-have-sex.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/sophia-the-robot-tells-crowded-room-that-it-doesnt-have-sex.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}