David Hanson
David Hanson
build david develop empathize eventually
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.
carrying gone night past saturday snow until weeks
We have two weeks for it to get cold. In the past we've gone through Saturday night until 4 a.m. making snow and carrying it up the hill. We don't give up.
declining drinking fact students
We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.
altitude endangered land losing maintain trying
was losing altitude, trying to maintain altitude and trim, trying to find a place to land. I didn't want to land on the freeway. I would have endangered so many people.
stake
There is just too much at stake for us not to have it.
direct hand ireland northern rule soon
Direct rule is not the right way for Northern Ireland to be governed. Devolution is. We want to -- and we will -- hand back to politicians as soon as we can.
board listening opinion personal power
We are here to communicate with the board members, who we don't think are listening to us. My personal opinion is this is a power play.
celebrate greatest ireland kingdom life northern people positive throughout united
The people of Northern Ireland and people throughout the United Kingdom want to celebrate George's life in a positive way. He has been one of the greatest footballers that ever lived.
level remember
I remember scootching down in the cockpit. I was level with the ground. (The plane) did a lot of things. I don't know a lot,
science tinkering
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
accuracy beings eventually high human machines perhaps raise safe top
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.
effect people
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.
friendly genius machines
My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.