David Hanson Professions : Inventor Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by David Hanson If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom. David Hanson highfeelachievecompassion Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future. David Hanson intelligencefuturehopecharacter Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. David Hanson robotswake-upsmartself Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. David Hanson robotmorerobotsexpectations My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities. David Hanson friendcreategeniusfriendly We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. David Hanson walkrobotsageworld Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. David Hanson placeempathyplantcharacter I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you. David Hanson willyourobotscharacter I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. David Hanson lovedthingsalwaysscience I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves. David Hanson willfreepeopleway The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. David Hanson humanupperceptionidentity Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32. David Hanson motorsheadsminemost I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away. David Hanson willgorobotspeople Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics. David Hanson lovednobodyrobotsart Similar Authors Arthur P. Warner inventor Arthur Fry inventor Bill Lear inventor Itzhak Bentov inventor Dr. An Wang inventor David Dunbar Buick inventorAll Authors
