Meet Sophia, the first to be granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia

Musk did have an answer for this. He tweeted, “Just feed it The Godfather movies as input. What’s the worst that could happen?”

Sophia, looks a bit like Audrey Hepburn and has an answer for every question. Sophia is the first robot to be granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia.

Sophia is a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics, who is programmed to be witty, was interviewed by business writer Andrew Ross Sorkin at a Future Investment Conference in Riyadh on Tuesday.

At the event it was announced that Sophia was awarded citizenship of Saudi Arabia. The decision was taken by Saudi Arabia which is trying to promote itself as a destination to develop artificial intelligence.

Sophia took to the podium and answered questions. She claimed that her only purpose was to help humans lead a better life. Sorkin asked Sophia to address concerns about the rise of AI. "Those sound like great goals..but go back to Blade Runner for a second," said Sorkin.

Sophia took a jibe at Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX and a staunch opponent of AI. You've been reading too much Elon Musk. And watching too many Hollywood movies. Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input output system," she said.

Musk did have an answer for this. He tweeted, "Just feed it The Godfather movies as input. What's the worst that could happen?"

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