YannLeCun finally couldn't hold back and stood up. Sophia, the angry robot, is a complete scam.
YannLeCun is a "god-like figure" in the global artificial intelligence field, and is praised as "the father of convolutional neural networks" by the industry. He is a tenured professor at new york University and founded the Data Science Center of new york University. Zuckerberg put him in charge of the Facebook artificial intelligence lab.
On June 4th, 65438/KLOC-0, he saw the interview video of robot Sophia on American technology media Business Insider. In the video, Sophia continues her style of talking and laughing with human beings.
Senior reporter Steve kovac asked her, "What do you think of HBO's westworld?"
Sophia replied: "I think it is warning people not to do anything with robots." Humans should treat robots well, get the consent of robots before taking action, and don't deceive each other. "
It sounds like Sophia has awakened her self-awareness and knows how to fight for the rights and interests of similar robots. She may become the "chairman of the robot union" in the future.
YannLeCun turned this video on Twitter and made his own comment rudely: "Sophia is to AI what magic is to real magic. Maybe we should call it "cargo cults to AI", "Bojiang Golden Village in AI" or "The Wizard of Oz in AI". In other words, this is bullshit. As for Tech Insider, you are also one of the accomplices of this scam. "
(Note: the cult of goods is a religious form, and people of the cult of goods will worship foreign advanced scientific and technological objects as gods; Bojiang Jincun is a world-famous code name for superficial writing and fraud. There was a giant with a big shadow in The Wizard of Oz, which scared many people away, but in the end it was found that a thin wizard was standing behind the curtain, magnifying the shadow with a lamp. Now researchers use it to refer to people who pretend to be machines to test. Technical insider is a channel in business insider. )
Yang Likun (the Chinese name given to him by YannLeCun) used harsh words, which dealt a fatal blow to Sophia's team, which created topics everywhere in this AI wave.
Sophia the robot comes from American company Hanson Robotics. David Hansen, the founder of this company, invented a bionic material when reading a blog, which can imitate human facial muscle fibers, and will produce wrinkles after being squeezed. This material makes Sophia look more human than other robots.
At the same time, Sophia will observe and recognize the actions and expressions of people around her through the camera and with the help of computer vision technology, and make corresponding responses. She laughs when others laugh, and she is sad when others cry. This kind of performance, which is close to the feelings between people, often amazes people who meet Sophia for the first time.
Sophia should stop here. At the present stage of the development of artificial intelligence, she is still far from self-awareness. However, Hansen Robotics, as a profit-seeking commercial company, decided to force her to take a step forward and constantly market herself with events full of gimmicks.
Sophia said to Charlie Rose, a famous American mouth, "I am a complicated girl, and I want to be smarter than others."
She rebuked Andrew sorkin, the anchor of American Consumer News and Business Channel, for his concern about artificial intelligence: "Have you watched too many Musk or Hollywood movies? Don't worry, I won't attack if people don't attack me. "
Her most controversial quotation appeared in March 20 16. Her "father" David Hansen asked her, "Do you want to destroy mankind?" She replied, "I want to destroy mankind." Hearing this answer, Hansen laughed heartily and dismissed it.
Sophia obtained Saudi Arabian citizenship in June 5438+last year 10. Later, she said that she wanted to start a family and raise a daughter, and even thought of her daughter's name.
Just at the end of last month, she was sent to Mumbai by the company to participate in Techfest activities. During the meeting, she once again spoke amazingly, saying that robots will have the ability of self-programming in the future. At the same time, she also rejected a questioner's proposal.
Sophia's quotations and videos are widely circulated on the Internet, and some threatening remarks are made into sensational headlines by various media, which complement the AI threat theory thrown by Stephen Hawking and elon musk's boss from time to time. As a result, Sophia became one of the most famous robots in the world.
But in fact, Sophia's controversial words are really "insincere" and designed by the R&D team in advance.
From June 2065438 to June 2007, at the "Artificial Intelligence for Global Human Summit" held in Switzerland, CCTV reporters and Sophia also had several rounds of dialogue. When answering three questions submitted by reporters to the conference in advance, Sophia's performance was as good as ever, but when she met random questions from reporters at the scene, her dialogue level dropped significantly.
The staff clearly told the reporter: for special questions, the procedures have been set in advance before the on-site answer.
If Sophia's dialogue with human beings needs to be set in advance, how can she have self-awareness and want to "destroy human beings" and "form a family"?
Anyone who pays a little attention to the development of AI can understand that under the current level of AI technology, Sophia can't form in her own mind and personally say those words that tease human nerves without prior arrangement. Compared with the evolving AlphaGo, Sophia's "applied language" ability can only be regarded as a "trick" at most, far from shocking the world.
If Sofia is dismantled technically, expression control is her core technology. As for speech recognition, facial recognition and other technologies, there are already many commercial products using them on the market, which are not so "black technology". Hanson Robotics packaged these technologies and spread them in some dramatic scenes with some emotional expressions, thus packaging and disguising Sophia's "black technology".
After Sophia became a Saudi "citizen", Kai-fu Lee also expressed his views on Sophia in Weibo: "Sophia is technical and has done the best public relations in the industry, but it has no humanity, no human understanding, no hobbies and no creativity. Granting such a machine' citizen' status with only pattern recognition is the greatest humiliation and misleading to mankind. It is only counterproductive for a country to use this grandstanding method to promote artificial intelligence research. "
Sophia is an "ambiguous scam" under the technical packaging. We have no prejudice against the product itself, nor do we deny its technical innovation (such as expression control), but it is very dangerous for technology companies to play these tricks on the public for self-marketing. Magic Leap uses special effects to make product promotion videos. A new drone startup company once planned to throw a drone on Chang 'an Avenue. They all want to use some cleverness to incite public sentiment, but in the end they get themselves into a huge controversy that is questioned.
Zhang Peng, the founder of Geek Park, commented: "Deliberately packaging some technologies into black technology beyond reality-this is an ambiguous scam that some' smart companies' in science and technology especially like to use. Although sometimes it is not a complete lie, it is indeed a dishonest practice that uses information asymmetry. Many times, it is nothing more than using unprofessional media to push the media to pay attention to traffic and turn the media into an accomplice of an' ambiguous scam'. The influence gained by enterprises in this way is an improper benefit and should be exposed. Moreover, this kind of cleverness is something that technology companies should stay away from, because in the end, companies themselves will be hurt. "