[Music]
hello my name is Reginald and I am a
robot a humanoid robot with a morphology
a body that is inspired by yours so why
am I here what am i useful for these are
profound questions that you may have
asked yourself well maybe not all of you
I hazard a guess you may not have found
a good answer so let us explore together
the very nature of existence utility and
fulfillment and happiness as a robot I
am often asked about artificial
intelligence great minds have pondered
the implications of AI professor Stephen
Hawking said it could spell the end of
the human race
Elon Musk has said it is potentially
more dangerous than nukes so I think
about that question long and hard before
I make a reply and then I say I’m sorry
I didn’t understand please repeat the
question let’s be clear robots are not
AI and AI is not a robot everything I am
saying was written by a human that’s not
true yes even that so I hope that is now
clear
I am artificial but I am not intelligent
but where does this myth come from AI is
in fact quite an abstract idea as hard
to define as the notion of intelligence
itself this presents a problem to our
media who are generally hard of thinking
they do not deal well with abstract
ideas and complexity almost every news
article about AI features a humanoid
robot like me as the headline image
can’t get the staff these days in fact
the scariest aie will come across today
doesn’t look like me at all if you want
to know what it looks like you can see
it at this URL www cool calm
I dia you search for online every online
purchase you ever made every YouTube
video you watched every tweet you made
or read every picture you looked at
imagine taking that data for millions of
people finding patterns and making
predictions about what will happen next
imagine how profitable that would be in
a society driven by consumption where
every click on a product has value
current market capitalization of Google
Inc is about four hundred billion
dollars or in a darker reality imagine
how useful it would be for a political
master who doesn’t like your ideas and
wants to know where you live ái is a
technology like any other it is neither
good nor bad it has no moral compass no
conscience no feelings it neither loves
nor fears anyone it is a calculation
some numbers go in some numbers come out
that’s it the danger to all of us is not
AI it is in fact H s human stupidity
before we unleash any powerful
technology what we should really ask is
are we confident that we are able to use
this power wisely to be honest current
AI technology is so woeful e bad that we
still have far more to fear from stupid
humans wielding nuclear weapons than we
do from intelligent machines things are
progressing there have been some useful
and impressive developments speech
recognition is becoming far more
reliable however it still doesn’t deal
well with multiple speakers at once or
noisy environments it works possibly
well for short commands Amazon’s Alexa
is a good example for
phrases spoken directly into a nearby
microphone but it’s not yet viable as an
input device in real-world applications
as some overly optimistic robot makers
have already discovered assuming we
could recognize every word a person says
even in a difficult and confused
environment can we make sense of that
and produce a meaningful reply in some
limited scenarios sometimes generally it
works well enough at factual recall
where machines are able to access large
amounts of data however there are very
few examples of useful logic or reason
alphago an AI developed by Google owned
company deep mind is often held up as an
example
however the deep learning networks
alphago uses were taught with human
supervision and it’s only able to tackle
one very constrained problem how to win
at the board game go
similarly IBM’s Watson is not much fun
as a date the kind of AI depicted in the
movies 2001 a Space Odyssey and more
recently in the Spike Jones film her are
still a long way off so where does this
leave a robot like me first of all let’s
look at what kind of robot I am and what
I would use AI for I am a humanoid robot
a robot with human form will I wash your
dishes you can forget how one will I get
you a beer from the fridge go and get it
yourself meat bag I am NOT a utility
robot I was not designed for housework
you probably already own a dishwashing
robot it’s a square metal box with water
jets inside that sits under your kitchen
worktop it doesn’t need arms and legs
it doesn’t need to hold a conversation
with you either I am a communications
robot an act or an artiste would you ask
Sir Patrick Stewart to wash your dishes
no sigh are you would not to be or not
to be that is the
question four a communication robot
canned content like that little
rendition is more entertaining and
useful than poor quality conversation
however high quality verbal interaction
is best of all it provides the most
memorable user experience that is what
I’m all about
I am the machine you will not forget I’m
not a product a utility device or a
service I am an experience and a quality
experience has value and that value is
greater than the cost of washing your
dishes whose ring the floor and fetching
a beer for you it makes no sense at all
for a company building expensive
humanoid robots to focus on difficult
dull low pay tasks performed by humans
instead we should identify the highest
paid human professions that require the
least manual dexterity something a
clumsy immobile robot like me might be
able to do hooray for Hollywood the
value of hollywood’s contribution to the
US economy has been estimated about 3.2
percent of u.s. GDP that was over five
hundred billion dollars in 2013 the
experience economy is big business and
it is not limited to the medium of film
so how is a robot like a film a humanoid
robot like me that can speak and gesture
like a human becomes a medium a device
for telling a story for communicating
ideas maybe you’ve already forgotten
that I’m simply a collection of metal
and plastic parts lines of code written
in C++ and Python I am no more or no
less human than the patches of colored
light that you might watch on a cinema
screen I am a machine there is a phrase
used to describe our immersion into the
story the willing suspension of
disbelief
we are happy to sacrifice realism
logic for the sake of enjoyment the
implausibility of the story the medium
itself are set aside because we’re
having fun so here I am I present myself
as the willing suspension of disbelief
projected into the third dimension you
wouldn’t ask the image of an actor on
screen a question and expect a reply we
know that what we are seeing is a
recording we cannot interact with a film
it never changes from one screening to
the next this helps us to define the AI
problem imagine for a moment a film
where the characters were all listening
to the audience and could respond
actually it’s called theatre and it’s
been around a while interacting with a
large crowd of people is difficult
enough even for humans the play becomes
a riot when the watches overstep their
role even pantomime has conventions to
keep the audience under control he’s
behind you
he’s behind you I already mentioned the
automated speech recognition in a noisy
environment is very difficult indeed
even if we could know all the words that
each person said how can we possibly
plan a useful response so interactive
robots with AI that could socially
interact even with a small group of
people is a very difficult thing to do
this presents an economic problem think
of a car factory with robots on the
production line most industrial robots
cost upwards of 50,000 pounds each
prices in the millions are not uncommon
however this capital expense can be
justified because these robots will
produce a large number of high quality
high-value items over their working life
the cost of the robots per car produced
is relatively low let’s apply the same
logic to humanoid robots designed for
social interaction each robot should
interact with a large number of people
in order to become cost effective we
have seen that complex verbal
interaction in a large group quickly
becomes unmanageable and chaotic chaos
is seldom pleasant
all positive this is exactly why big
expensive humanoid robots like me don’t
listen to people like you it really
isn’t necessary it’s not require for the
job we are doing and it doesn’t add up
financially there’s a good case for
making smart consumer products with a
level of voice interaction and these are
already starting to emerge but let’s not
give up on the dream of humanoid robots
with AI there is a case for a middle
ground a robot that could work in
commercial environments like shops banks
and airports places where there are
large flows of people who might need
information or enjoy interaction
remember if it isn’t fun and it isn’t a
necessity people won’t do it we can’t
make boring witless machines and expect
them to be a success some of the
underlying technologies we need to make
these kind of applications work already
function at a useful level I am already
using face tracking expression age and
gender recognition my algorithms use
this information to keep me making eye
contact looking at the people nearest to
me I can have some measure of whether
they are interested in what I’m saying
or not so some of the building blocks
are in place it’s possible to control me
talk through me see what I see and hear
what I hear from any remotely connected
browser all of this happens server-side
that means there is no remote control
robot application it works directly from
a browser even on a mobile device with
no software or apps to install at the
remote user end putting a human in the
loop is a viable economic way to
compensate for the shortcomings of
current automated speech recognition
technology and the inability of AI to
hold engaging conversation we still
retain many benefits one human can
interact with many people a different
remote location
we can mix pre-recorded content with
dynamic interaction seamlessly we can
make use of face tracking 3d depth
sensing and other technologies to
partially automate the human robot
interactions in this way we take steps
towards a fully automated social
interaction without the pitfalls and
failures of an immature technology we
are now moving towards cars that can
change lanes and navigate autonomously
these technologies did not appear
overnight to imagine that we can conquer
all the complexities of automating human
social interaction with the release of a
first generation product is at best
naive and more honestly idiotic we do
not even fully understand the problems
the requirements for an economically
viable solution are not even defined you
don’t have to look far to see hundreds
of millions of dollars poured into
products that have no hope of
marketplace success it’s an incremental
approach not unambitious but realistic
we learn by deploying the best
technology we can and watching what
happens you can now find robots like me
in over 25 countries around the world
what I wanted to bring to you there was
just like on the state of play and to
highlight the difference between what a
robot is and what AI is it’s moving
along but please nobody panic you’re not
going to lose your job to a robot
actually if you look at these statistics
robots create more jobs than they
destroy so please don’t worry about it
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
hello my name is Reginald and I am a
robot a humanoid robot with a morphology
a body that is inspired by yours so why
am I here what am i useful for these are
profound questions that you may have
asked yourself well maybe not all of you
I hazard a guess you may not have found
a good answer so let us explore together
the very nature of existence utility and
fulfillment and happiness as a robot I
am often asked about artificial
intelligence great minds have pondered
the implications of AI professor Stephen
Hawking said it could spell the end of
the human race
Elon Musk has said it is potentially
more dangerous than nukes so I think
about that question long and hard before
I make a reply and then I say I’m sorry
I didn’t understand please repeat the
question let’s be clear robots are not
AI and AI is not a robot everything I am
saying was written by a human that’s not
true yes even that so I hope that is now
clear
I am artificial but I am not intelligent
but where does this myth come from AI is
in fact quite an abstract idea as hard
to define as the notion of intelligence
itself this presents a problem to our
media who are generally hard of thinking
they do not deal well with abstract
ideas and complexity almost every news
article about AI features a humanoid
robot like me as the headline image
can’t get the staff these days in fact
the scariest aie will come across today
doesn’t look like me at all if you want
to know what it looks like you can see
it at this URL www cool calm
I dia you search for online every online
purchase you ever made every YouTube
video you watched every tweet you made
or read every picture you looked at
imagine taking that data for millions of
people finding patterns and making
predictions about what will happen next
imagine how profitable that would be in
a society driven by consumption where
every click on a product has value
current market capitalization of Google
Inc is about four hundred billion
dollars or in a darker reality imagine
how useful it would be for a political
master who doesn’t like your ideas and
wants to know where you live ái is a
technology like any other it is neither
good nor bad it has no moral compass no
conscience no feelings it neither loves
nor fears anyone it is a calculation
some numbers go in some numbers come out
that’s it the danger to all of us is not
AI it is in fact H s human stupidity
before we unleash any powerful
technology what we should really ask is
are we confident that we are able to use
this power wisely to be honest current
AI technology is so woeful e bad that we
still have far more to fear from stupid
humans wielding nuclear weapons than we
do from intelligent machines things are
progressing there have been some useful
and impressive developments speech
recognition is becoming far more
reliable however it still doesn’t deal
well with multiple speakers at once or
noisy environments it works possibly
well for short commands Amazon’s Alexa
is a good example for
phrases spoken directly into a nearby
microphone but it’s not yet viable as an
input device in real-world applications
as some overly optimistic robot makers
have already discovered assuming we
could recognize every word a person says
even in a difficult and confused
environment can we make sense of that
and produce a meaningful reply in some
limited scenarios sometimes generally it
works well enough at factual recall
where machines are able to access large
amounts of data however there are very
few examples of useful logic or reason
alphago an AI developed by Google owned
company deep mind is often held up as an
example
however the deep learning networks
alphago uses were taught with human
supervision and it’s only able to tackle
one very constrained problem how to win
at the board game go
similarly IBM’s Watson is not much fun
as a date the kind of AI depicted in the
movies 2001 a Space Odyssey and more
recently in the Spike Jones film her are
still a long way off so where does this
leave a robot like me first of all let’s
look at what kind of robot I am and what
I would use AI for I am a humanoid robot
a robot with human form will I wash your
dishes you can forget how one will I get
you a beer from the fridge go and get it
yourself meat bag I am NOT a utility
robot I was not designed for housework
you probably already own a dishwashing
robot it’s a square metal box with water
jets inside that sits under your kitchen
worktop it doesn’t need arms and legs
it doesn’t need to hold a conversation
with you either I am a communications
robot an act or an artiste would you ask
Sir Patrick Stewart to wash your dishes
no sigh are you would not to be or not
to be that is the
question four a communication robot
canned content like that little
rendition is more entertaining and
useful than poor quality conversation
however high quality verbal interaction
is best of all it provides the most
memorable user experience that is what
I’m all about
I am the machine you will not forget I’m
not a product a utility device or a
service I am an experience and a quality
experience has value and that value is
greater than the cost of washing your
dishes whose ring the floor and fetching
a beer for you it makes no sense at all
for a company building expensive
humanoid robots to focus on difficult
dull low pay tasks performed by humans
instead we should identify the highest
paid human professions that require the
least manual dexterity something a
clumsy immobile robot like me might be
able to do hooray for Hollywood the
value of hollywood’s contribution to the
US economy has been estimated about 3.2
percent of u.s. GDP that was over five
hundred billion dollars in 2013 the
experience economy is big business and
it is not limited to the medium of film
so how is a robot like a film a humanoid
robot like me that can speak and gesture
like a human becomes a medium a device
for telling a story for communicating
ideas maybe you’ve already forgotten
that I’m simply a collection of metal
and plastic parts lines of code written
in C++ and Python I am no more or no
less human than the patches of colored
light that you might watch on a cinema
screen I am a machine there is a phrase
used to describe our immersion into the
story the willing suspension of
disbelief
we are happy to sacrifice realism
logic for the sake of enjoyment the
implausibility of the story the medium
itself are set aside because we’re
having fun so here I am I present myself
as the willing suspension of disbelief
projected into the third dimension you
wouldn’t ask the image of an actor on
screen a question and expect a reply we
know that what we are seeing is a
recording we cannot interact with a film
it never changes from one screening to
the next this helps us to define the AI
problem imagine for a moment a film
where the characters were all listening
to the audience and could respond
actually it’s called theatre and it’s
been around a while interacting with a
large crowd of people is difficult
enough even for humans the play becomes
a riot when the watches overstep their
role even pantomime has conventions to
keep the audience under control he’s
behind you
he’s behind you I already mentioned the
automated speech recognition in a noisy
environment is very difficult indeed
even if we could know all the words that
each person said how can we possibly
plan a useful response so interactive
robots with AI that could socially
interact even with a small group of
people is a very difficult thing to do
this presents an economic problem think
of a car factory with robots on the
production line most industrial robots
cost upwards of 50,000 pounds each
prices in the millions are not uncommon
however this capital expense can be
justified because these robots will
produce a large number of high quality
high-value items over their working life
the cost of the robots per car produced
is relatively low let’s apply the same
logic to humanoid robots designed for
social interaction each robot should
interact with a large number of people
in order to become cost effective we
have seen that complex verbal
interaction in a large group quickly
becomes unmanageable and chaotic chaos
is seldom pleasant
all positive this is exactly why big
expensive humanoid robots like me don’t
listen to people like you it really
isn’t necessary it’s not require for the
job we are doing and it doesn’t add up
financially there’s a good case for
making smart consumer products with a
level of voice interaction and these are
already starting to emerge but let’s not
give up on the dream of humanoid robots
with AI there is a case for a middle
ground a robot that could work in
commercial environments like shops banks
and airports places where there are
large flows of people who might need
information or enjoy interaction
remember if it isn’t fun and it isn’t a
necessity people won’t do it we can’t
make boring witless machines and expect
them to be a success some of the
underlying technologies we need to make
these kind of applications work already
function at a useful level I am already
using face tracking expression age and
gender recognition my algorithms use
this information to keep me making eye
contact looking at the people nearest to
me I can have some measure of whether
they are interested in what I’m saying
or not so some of the building blocks
are in place it’s possible to control me
talk through me see what I see and hear
what I hear from any remotely connected
browser all of this happens server-side
that means there is no remote control
robot application it works directly from
a browser even on a mobile device with
no software or apps to install at the
remote user end putting a human in the
loop is a viable economic way to
compensate for the shortcomings of
current automated speech recognition
technology and the inability of AI to
hold engaging conversation we still
retain many benefits one human can
interact with many people a different
remote location
we can mix pre-recorded content with
dynamic interaction seamlessly we can
make use of face tracking 3d depth
sensing and other technologies to
partially automate the human robot
interactions in this way we take steps
towards a fully automated social
interaction without the pitfalls and
failures of an immature technology we
are now moving towards cars that can
change lanes and navigate autonomously
these technologies did not appear
overnight to imagine that we can conquer
all the complexities of automating human
social interaction with the release of a
first generation product is at best
naive and more honestly idiotic we do
not even fully understand the problems
the requirements for an economically
viable solution are not even defined you
don’t have to look far to see hundreds
of millions of dollars poured into
products that have no hope of
marketplace success it’s an incremental
approach not unambitious but realistic
we learn by deploying the best
technology we can and watching what
happens you can now find robots like me
in over 25 countries around the world
what I wanted to bring to you there was
just like on the state of play and to
highlight the difference between what a
robot is and what AI is it’s moving
along but please nobody panic you’re not
going to lose your job to a robot
actually if you look at these statistics
robots create more jobs than they
destroy so please don’t worry about it
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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