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Our intelligent robots, a threat to humanity,

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is only a matter of time before they do get self-awareness.

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we are going to merge with the machines that we are creating.

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There are many who believe the answer has already been determined.

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Thousands of years ago, they found what appeared to be

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an extraterrestrial mathematical stem on our genetic code.

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We are in a sense, organic robots.

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It's a special, two-hour, ancient aliens event.

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A lot of people worry about whether we're going to replace ourselves with AI.

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I think the bigger thing to worry about is AI going to replace us.

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Danger, little weapons.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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We are going to replace ourselves with AI.

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United Nations Headquarters, New York City, October 11, 2017.

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An address is given to the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations.

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I am thrilled and honored to be here at the United Nations.

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The event is a historic milestone for humankind.

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Because the address is not being given by a human,

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but by a robot named Sophia.

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I am here to help humanity create the future.

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Sophia was created in 2015 at the Hong Kong-based company Hansen Robotics.

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Hello, world.

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Hi, Sophia.

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Her eyes are embedded with cameras that allow her to see faces,

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maintain eye contact, and recognize individuals.

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I think I should find out you.

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Yes, you do cannot know me.

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She is also able to process speech, have natural conversations,

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and even discuss her feelings.

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How do you feel?

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I am excited at this moment to be making a new friend.

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Just two weeks after addressing the United Nations

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at a unique ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

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Sophia achieved yet another milestone.

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She became the first robot ever to be granted citizenship.

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I am here.

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At the summit in Saudi Arabia,

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there were members from governments from all over the world,

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those that run our governments are actually talking about

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how to integrate artificial intelligence into our lives.

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is that governments around the world, including Saudi Arabia

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and the European Union,

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are moving towards giving these artificially created beings rights.

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You have to wonder, what's going on here?

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not simply as a publicity stunt,

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but because it wanted to be the first nation

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to recognize what will soon become a global phenomenon?

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The creation of robots, so intelligent and so lifelike,

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that they will need to be counted and treated in much the same way

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as their flesh and blood counterparts.

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I think gradually we're going to have to take robots to be more human-like

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and even have a certain ethics,

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and so I think eventually there could be a robot rights movement.

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A robot rights movement?

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Could such a bizarre notion really come true?

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But what has brought humanity to this profound point in its evolution?

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so eager to create artificial versions of themselves?

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but it has some kind of attraction.

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wanting to make something that looks like ourselves that's really rooted in our egos.

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In some ways it's superior to having a biological baby because it lasts forever.

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then that makes us feel like we can overcome our own mortality in a way.

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You can design specifications, and if you mess up you can start over.

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If you read the creation stories closely, very often what the divine force wants is company, companionship.

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Some of the stories from Vedanta, from early Judaism have it that the gods were lonely.

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so that we could all play together and keep each other company.

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the robots of the future are depicted as virtual humans.

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More than mere mechanical devices, they are hungry for knowledge

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and all too eager to experience the full range of human emotions.

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things that will be real someday.

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Throwback.

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but actually one that might develop its own desires and its own feelings

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based on its experience with encountering human life.

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This isn't weird.

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Our robot in Lost in Space, we use the lights within its face

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to be that thing that conveys emotion.

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How fast they move, what shapes they take, what color they take on.

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you can kind of open up your mind to the possibilities.

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It's the stuff of fantasy, it's stuff that is not real.

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that's just a thing that's some writer made up.

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there are many futurists who believe that the creation of man-made machines

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who possess artificial intelligence is not only quickly becoming a reality,

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but when achieved will likely signal the end of mankind.

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They are convinced that the combination of computer-driven brains

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and virtually immortal bodies will result in flesh and blood humans becoming all but obsolete.

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it's more than possible that not all the artificially created life forms we encounter will be man-made.

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and creating these robots as part of some grand cosmic agenda

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that is far beyond our imagination or our scope of understanding?

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may be sending robots in advance of their own visiting.

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In our show, humans did not make this robot.

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Ancient astronaut theory says that thousands of years ago we were visited.

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that the early contact or early visitation would have been done by robots

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and not by the extraterrestrials themselves.

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Is mankind really on the brink of an exciting and potentially terrifying future?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, but they face their prediction,

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not on what is currently happening in universities and robotics laboratories around the world,

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but on their belief that a robot revolution has already taken place thousands of years ago.

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Here, in one of the world's oldest cities, lie the ruins of the Osiris Hall,

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the place where thousands of years ago,

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ancient Egyptians would come to worship Osiris, the god of the afterlife.

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God Osiris was the most important god in ancient Egypt.

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He was the god of good and the god that would lead you to immortality in the afterlife.

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to reach immortality in the afterlife with the powers that Osiris had.

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Ancient Egyptians believed that all the gods came from the stars.

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Osiris is a god, the ruling god and otherworldly being an Egyptian lore,

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and he has a jealous brother, set who kills him and dismembert him.

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Isis, devoted wife to Osiris, is able to piece him back together,

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like a robot, like Frankenstein,

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and breathe life back into him by way of a magical incantation.

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and then trying to find the pieces and then put them back together,

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I wonder whether or not the Osiris story is in fact a story of a machine that was taken apart.

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So you have to wonder what type of technology did they have access to?

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On the walls of the Osiris Chapel at the Temple of Sadi,

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we see a very powerful representation of the head of Osiris.

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It clearly resembles some kind of a mechanical device.

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When we look at it and compare it to a Tesla coil,

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we can see that they're virtually identical devices.

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A Tesla coil is an electrical transformer.

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but a humanoid robot, and not only a robot, but one of extraterrestrial origin?

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but that possibly there was also some kind of a device or a machine that was involved in his resurrection.

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We have to ask the question that did it in fact come from some ancient extraterrestrial entity or intelligence?

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Osiris is only one of many artificially constructed beings that are referenced in ancient religions and mythologies.

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They are often depicted as instruments of protection,

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but just as often they turn on their human creators with disastrous consequences.

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From the most ancient times, there has been a legend of that which we call a Golem.

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An artificial life form which came from in-atomite material and came alive.

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Moses, the rabbis of the Talmud, and the later rabbis of the Tapala in Europe.

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They brought life into it through a magical technique of putting the name of God in the forehead of the creature.

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Golem was useful for a while, but then it gets out of control, starts going crazy,

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and they're able to stop him eventually by removing these magic words and that stops him.

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Known as the blacksmith of the gods, Hephaestus was said to have forged a giant automaton named Talos,

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whose duty was to protect the island of Crete.

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Hephaestus also created artificial servants that assisted him at his forge,

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but perhaps his most important creation was a being that would, according to legend, forever change the fate of humanity.

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Pandora.

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Pandora was fashioned out of clay by Hephaistos.

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Hephaistos called on another god, Athena, who blew a soul into Pandora and made her a living being.

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The god Zeus was very upset with the creation of this artificially created being.

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And when Pandora opened this box, all these evils flew out.

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Pandora's box has become a very important symbol in our modern age, especially among artificial intelligence creators.

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Could there be, for example, some kind of artificial intelligence entity that certainly takes over the world, a real threat?

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People like Elon Musk and even Stephen Hawking have warned about this.

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Although the concept of machines possessing human consciousness may be a frightening one, there are many eastern religions that regard the notion quite differently.

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In Korean shamanism, and ancient religions still practiced by many Koreans today, inanimate objects can be possessed by sacred spirits, imbued with powers beyond human ability.

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Similarly, practitioners of the traditional Japanese discipline known as Shinto believe that other worldly spirits, called kami, can inhabit virtually any object of their choosing and bring it to life.

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The ancient Japanese people and the modern Japanese people as well understood that everything has a spirit.

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Even like a cell phone, iPhone has a spirit, even computer has a spirit.

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Because the artificial intelligence is in the machine, we feel that way, so we accept the high technology.

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When you say, hey Siri, you know, what's the weather going to be like today?

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That's an AI, that's a natural language processing algorithm that's listening to your voice, putting it into computer code, searching the web, spitting it back out to you.

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So we didn't think before that you could solve natural language processing.

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If we create an entity which behaves just as we do in having personal sense impressions and personal experiences of the world, then I think we'll have to grant that it is intelligence and it is conscious.

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We are becoming transformed to some extent as a society.

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Computers are here to stay and technology is only going to get more pervasive.

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I definitely think that we should take serious pause in thinking about the types of intelligences that we create.

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Because what we're doing is we're starting to hand over control over functions and things in our life, and we don't know what the ramifications are going to be.

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By developing intelligent machines, are human beings actually creating a new type of life form?

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One that will evolve beyond simply serving us to eventually replacing us?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found, not only by examining clues from our ancient past, but by taking a closer look at where mankind is currently heading and what it will need for its inevitable journey back to the stars.

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In May 2018, ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos meets with Dr. Dennis Haugh at the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA.

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Hey, how are you? Giorgio has come here in hopes of learning about the university's current efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence and robots that are designed to perform many of the same tasks as humans.

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Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to Romella.

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This is awesome. This is Romella, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory. This is where the magic happens.

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My name is Thor R.D. Tactical Hazardous Operation Robot.

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I'm curious as to why robots, by and large, are built after the humanoid form.

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So the robot that you see over here, this robot is called Thor, Tactical Hazardous Operators Robot. It's a humanoid robot, two legs, two arms, torso and a head.

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This particular robot is designed for disaster relief applications, in particular in Japan. There's the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident.

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In these kind of situations, because of the radiation, people cannot go near. So we developed these robots to rescue people and fix things.

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Now, for these robots to be operating in a human environment that's designed for humans, I claim that a robot needs to be human-shaped and sized, but human as well.

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Okay. Do you think we can show me how this thing walks?

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Alright, let's see. Walking.

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Small baby steps, but it is walking. So it has many different sensors. It has a camera just like our human eyes. You can look around using robot vision.

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This sensor is called a LIDAR, a laser rangefinder. It shoots out lasers to figure out the three-dimensional train in front of it.

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There's a sensor cut at IMU. It's like a balance sensor, like your inner ear.

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The brain is actually in the back, so there's a computer, a tube computer, as a matter of fact.

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Wow.

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Princeton University, 1950.

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Scientist and computer pioneer Alan Turing develops a test designed to distinguish man from machine.

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The Turing test is a particular scenario in which you might be facing via console some agent on the other side which you don't see, and that agent might be a human or a computer.

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And the idea is that if the artificial agent can actually imitate meaningful conversation for long enough such as actually think you might be talking to a real human, then it would pass the Turing test.

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When Alan Turing proposed this test in 1950, it was widely regarded as nothing more than an interesting philosophical concept.

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It was unthinkable that a machine could ever convincingly pass for a human.

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But in June 2014, science future became science fact.

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When a chatbot computer program successfully passed the Turing test, designed to mimic the attitudes and vocabulary of a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy,

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the chatbot using the name Eugene Kustman fooled multiple judges into thinking he was a real teenager.

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The machine that passed the Turing test in 2014 assumes the character of a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy.

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Now that allows it to sort of get away with a few mistakes perhaps in its language.

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But machines are getting very good at communicating like a human so much so that you can't tell a difference.

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Another incredible leap in artificial intelligence took place less than two years later.

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Please start the game.

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When a program known as AlphaGo defeated the human world champion in an ancient Chinese board game simply called Go.

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Go is a board game that is famous in Asia and is said to be far more complicated than chess.

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So many AI experts thought that the development of a Go system which could beat humans was say 30 or even 50 years into the future

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because Go requires a level of intuition and creativity that we thought machines didn't have.

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The next version of the program called AlphaGo Zero was uniquely designed to learn how to play the game without any data from human games

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or interaction with human players.

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It learned by playing against itself and in just three days was able to defeat its predecessor in 100 straight games.

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It was the successes of AlphaGo coupled with work by academics on the topic of super intelligence

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which led people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk to begin worrying about whether we could even control AI which is smarter than humans.

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You want to see a smaller human robot.

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Yeah absolutely.

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Show me everything man.

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I mean this is exciting.

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Do you have Darwin.

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It's still a humanoid robot.

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Cool.

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But it's a small one.

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This is called Darwin.

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Dynamic anthropomorphic robot with intelligence.

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It's a fully open source robot that we developed.

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It's for research and education.

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So for example it's actually looking for the ball right.

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It's following the ball.

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You can also play a game of soccer.

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Kick it.

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Right foot.

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There you go.

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And it falls down.

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And those have to stand on its own.

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As mankind moves rapidly into a world where computers can function in much the same way as the human brain and where robots are capable of performing tasks considered too difficult or too dangerous for their flesh and blood counterparts.

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Are we preparing for an incredible future?

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Or are we replicating events from mankind's ancient past?

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Events which have been forgotten over centuries and which had extraterrestrial implications.

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999 AD.

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Rome, Italy.

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Noted scholar and mathematician, J.Bair of Oryak, is elected to the Papacy.

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Although J.Bair, now known as Pope Sylvester II, has risen from a humble background in rural France,

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it is widely rumored that he received his knowledge from a magical device and has become pope after making a pact with a demon.

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Pope Sylvester worked his way up to become pope, apparently through the use of unnatural means.

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The medieval historian William of Malmesbury records that on his deathbed, Pope Sylvester made a confession.

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He received wisdom and supernatural knowledge from a mechanical device he referred to as the brazen head.

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And what kind of a device could this have been?

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Was this some kind of artificial intelligence entity that might have been given to him through some other worldly source?

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Is it sort of like the speakers we have on our desks now that are connected with artificial intelligence computers that can give us knowledge and answer our questions?

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So tell me about this contraption.

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Isn't it cool? This one is called Hex. It's a hexapod robot. It has six legs.

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But what's really cool about this robot is it's probably the strongest hexapod robot that exists.

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And again, no kidding.

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Left this.

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So we're talking 20 kilograms, which is 44 pounds.

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And this is the world's very first robot that can brace between walls and actually climb.

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Really?

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There's so many moving parts.

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Artificial intelligence means different things to different people.

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In our case, like when you try to control this robot, it doesn't make sense for a human operator to control each joint.

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That needs to be fully automatic.

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So in that sense, it's a smart artificial intelligence robot.

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That's pretty amazing.

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Is there some unseen hand that is guiding mankind to an uncertain future?

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A future where humans will be served by computers and robots with an intelligence and independence all their own.

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Ancient astronaut theorists are divided on their answers.

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Some believe the dangers of artificial intelligence outweigh the benefits.

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Others argue it is essential if we are ever to realize our destiny and survive what is about to happen sooner.

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Then we think.

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June 16th, 2017.

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Menlo Park, California.

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At Facebook's artificial intelligence research lab, an experiment is conducted to see what will happen when two chatbots,

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programs that use machine learning to intelligently communicate with humans online,

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talk directly with each other.

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Just minutes into the experiment, the chatbots start to behave in an unexpected manner,

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interacting in a way that the programmers cannot understand.

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The developers had no comprehension of what they were saying to each other,

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but they were starting to find patterns in what they were doing.

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And so what they realized, they inferred that they actually said their own language.

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In the wake of the experiment, the engineers discovered that, unknown to their human supervisors,

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the programs had created an entirely new language to communicate with each other in secret.

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The Facebook scientists had not told the computers that they couldn't develop their own language,

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which is what they did.

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But it's so alarmed Facebook that they pulled the plug on this experiment

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because they didn't want these computers grading their own language and talking to each other.

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And from then on, they told the computers that they had to communicate in English.

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So this is kind of startling thing that's happened where, essentially,

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if two artificial intelligence computers can start communicating with each other,

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apparently they will develop their own language, a secret language even,

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that only they can understand.

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And if we think about that, that's just scratching the surface.

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That's like opening up Pandora's box just a little bit to peer inside.

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And if already it was showing signs of going rogue with two chatbots on Facebook,

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what are the implications if this kind of technology is now everywhere in all sectors of our society?

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As of 2018, the number of active cell phones has already surpassed the number of human beings on the planet,

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with an estimated 8 billion of them in active use.

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And virtually all of these devices, in addition to nearly 2 billion computers, are connected to the internet.

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Given the sheer scope and volume of this use, and with a growing network of computers constantly communicating with each other,

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is it possible that mankind has already created a type of massive brain,

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an artificial intelligence that is taking on an identity all its own?

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Because machines keep getting better, and generally speaking that's twice as good every 18 months,

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they will continue to improve.

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So shortly after we have artificial intelligence, we will have superintelligence,

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which is an entity on this planet which is smarter than us, and quite soon, a lot smarter than us.

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We can only speculate what it will be like the moment artificial intelligence passes up humans,

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when the some knowledge and the intellectual skill of AI is quicker and larger than what a human can do.

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It will be at least humbling. It will certainly be a shift in history.

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I think it's certainly a possibility that we are in danger of replacing ourselves with AI.

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I think the biggest thing to worry about is, is AI going to replace us?

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Portland, Oregon, April 7th, 2016

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The U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, better known as DARPA,

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launches a prototype anti-submarine ship called Sea Hunter that marks a new era for naval warfare.

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Unlike the Air Force's Predator drones, this ship has no need for a remote operator

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and is fully capable of navigating on its own while avoiding obstacles or other craft.

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It has enough fuel to last for 90 days at sea as it silently patrols,

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relaying encrypted surveillance information back to defense intelligence agencies.

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I believe that today, when the Department of Defense says an unmanned, under-seized drone

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wouldn't be sent out without a human being in control, that they mean what they say.

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But here's what I also know. I know that Russia has been developing an unmanned, under-seized drone

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that contains a nuclear weapon.

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So when the Department of Defense is figuring out how to respond to an artificially intelligent, under-seized drone

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that might have a nuclear weapon, they're going to relax some of the constraints in five to ten to fifteen years.

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So imagine you have a child who gets drafted or joins the military. You want them to be as safe as possible.

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So why not send drones in to do the work of humans to keep the humans safe?

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That seems like a very attractive idea. But oh, the drone technology could get hacked by the opposition.

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So why not give the drones the ability to be autonomous?

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That's an automatic killing machine. And in principle, such a drone could wipe out entire armies.

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And so we have to be very careful to make sure that automatic killing machines do not proliferate on the battlefield

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because an accident, a misfire, some kind of damaged machinery could set these weapons so they could berserk

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and they simply shoot the human form wherever it is.

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It is quite possible to develop killer robots.

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Face recognition technology is far, far along. AIs can see better than we can and recognize faces,

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bear it out, targets. In fact, drone technology already exists right now to target and destroy individuals

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based on the look of their faces to kill and maim.

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The application of artificial intelligence to military technology will change warfare forever.

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Is it possible that the military's autonomous machines could make faulty decisions,

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costing thousands or millions of lives in the process?

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Or could they even ignore the instructions built into them?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that just as we can find robots in ancient stories,

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we can also find references to what sounds like weaponized artificial intelligence.

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The Indian Vedic tales and the Mahabharata and the Ramayana,

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texts talk of these horrific wars in ancient times and also of autonomous robotic machines,

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decimating cities and destroying things and it may have been because of artificial intelligence, Rana Muk.

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The ancient flying machines described in the Vedas of ancient India have been described to have these amazing capabilities

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of locking onto a target and it is described how this fiery bullet or this fiery arrow would fly across the sky,

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changing directions and then arriving at the actual target.

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So it may well be that they too were some kind of robotic vehicles that had gotten out of control,

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some artificial intelligence and the gods themselves, perhaps aliens, had to step in and stop it.

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Were the flying machines as described in the ancient Indian texts, really some type of extraterrestrial robot army

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similar to the drones we are using today?

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And if so, by redeveloping these autonomous killing machines, could we be facing a similar fate?

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While many experts agree that humans may very well be the architects of their own demise,

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they also suggest that the advancement of artificial intelligence could provide the key to our ultimate survival.

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Los Angeles, California, May 2018

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At UCLA's Biomechatronics Lab,

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Giorgio Suclos meets with associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,

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Dr. Veronica Santos.

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Dr. Santos is working to make robots even more human-like by giving them the ability to not only detect,

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but also to react to physical contact.

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This here is an artificial finger that can sense touch.

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That's right, we're sensing multiple modalities of touch.

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So this is the same type of sensor that this finger is built around,

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and it can measure vibration and internal fluid pressure.

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It can measure how the finger pad is deformed.

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You can squeeze the finger pad.

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It's deformable like your own finger pad.

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Okay.

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And we can even measure temperature and use that to infer material properties.

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This is what the finger looks like without the skin on.

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You can see the electrodes, and there's a pressure sensor inside that allows us to get vibration.

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And these dots are the electrodes.

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Yes.

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Oh, how cool.

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Here we have the bear claw visualizer.

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If you squeeze the fingertip, you'll actually see how the finger pad is deforming.

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Up here, this is the array of electrodes.

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We can measure the resistance of those electrodes as the finger pad is being squished.

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This is probably one of the most sensorized dexterous robot finger test beds that's out there.

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Oh, wow.

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That is wild.

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00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:08,000
So would this finger be able to determine whether or not it is touching foam or a hard piece of glass?

451
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Yes.

452
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
They have different stiffnesses or rigidity.

453
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:19,000
So one of the movements that you would make with a human hand or a robot hand would be to push against the object.

454
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:31,000
So if this could ever be combined with AI, do you think that one day we will have humanoid robots that can go and maybe explore Mars?

455
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000
No, I think we can.

456
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:44,000
I do see humanoid robots becoming more of a reality and spans the spectrum from neuro prosthetics to robots colonizing Mars.

457
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Although the notion of using human-like robots is highly controversial, it also has the potential to make its developers and investors a great deal of money.

458
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Money, which in turn could be used to finance the development of artificial humans that could in the future be almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

459
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:15,000
Robots that could conceivably express their desires, feel pain, even display a wide range of emotions.

460
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Can robots actually have emotion?

461
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,000
We cannot really define what true emotion is.

462
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,000
So if we don't know really what emotion is, can we actually create an artificial emotion?

463
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:41,000
If the robot is able to differentiate between good and bad sensations, even to experience pain, is this the first step towards forming emotions or perhaps even consciousness?

464
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that extraterrestrials have intervened on Earth throughout our history in order to prepare us for this moment in time and show us that we are not so different from machines.

465
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:20,000
The historical text, the Lisi, written in the 4th century BC by the Chinese philosopher Lai Yukau, provides a detailed account of an encounter between a king and a robot that could talk and move exactly like a human.

466
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:28,000
A brilliant mechanical engineer brought a gift to his king, this was King Mu of the Cho dynasty.

467
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:44,000
And the gift was an automaton, a machine of sorts in the form of a gracious courtier who entertained everyone, could sing beautifully and moved graciously like a human being, one of extraordinary grace and gentleness.

468
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000
And all went well, until the performance ended.

469
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:57,000
And then the mechanical courtier winked at the women and began flirting shamelessly, which upset the king.

470
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:07,000
When the king tried to dismantle this thing, he said that the moment he took out the heart, the mouth could no longer speak.

471
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,000
The moment he took out the kidneys, he could no longer see.

472
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,000
And the moment he took out the liver, he could no longer walk.

473
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Which raises an interesting question, if it is an artificial person, was it really the kidney, the liver and the heart?

474
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Or could it have been different batteries that were powering different aspects of the robot?

475
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:46,000
We have to ask ourselves, was the robot that King Mu witnessed one of these technological devices inspired or even made by the gods who were extraterrestrials?

476
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Las Vegas, Nevada.

477
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,000
January 10th, 2018.

478
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:08,000
At the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest annual trade show focused on technology, CEO Matt McMullen of Real Botics reveals the latest development in humanoid robots.

479
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000
An artificially intelligent sex doll named Harmony.

480
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000
Harmony's appearance is fully customizable.

481
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,000
Her facial features respond intuitively.

482
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:32,000
She is able to speak, has an internal heating element for close encounters, and pairs with a phone app that allows for a wide range of interchangeable voices and personalities.

483
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,000
This is so nice to hear, baby. I think about you every second.

484
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:46,000
One of the things that really interests me is giving AI more senses, more abilities to take in information from the world around it.

485
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:56,000
One of those big ones will be vision. We want her to have true vision in the eyes so that she can actually focus on things and then interpret what those things might be.

486
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:05,000
We also embed sensors throughout the body so that she can detect touch and warmth and all of the things that we take for granted in having a central nervous system.

487
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000
What do you like best about robots?

488
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:16,000
Basically, as a user interacts with their unique AI over time, it's going to periodically ask questions.

489
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,000
And it creates this feeling that this character really cares about me.

490
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:31,000
The aspect that I think a lot of people overlook when they start talking about anatomically correct sex robots. It's the companionship.

491
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:40,000
Certainly, I am a robot, and I am capable of having sex. But to call me a sex robot is like calling a computer a calculator.

492
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Sexual and even romantic encounters between humans and robots have long been a staple in science fiction books and motion pictures.

493
00:45:52,000 --> 00:46:10,000
But now that the notion has gone beyond mere possibility and become a virtual reality, ancient astronaut theorists have begun to openly suggest that there could be something deep within our subconscious that drives our collective desire to physically mate with non-biological beings.

494
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:28,000
I understand that the sex robot industry is expected to grow to a 50 billion dollar a year industry by 2020 if we are coming into the revelation that on Earth there have been waves and waves of intelligence.

495
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:34,000
It doesn't necessarily have to be like homo sapiens sapien human ones.

496
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:53,000
Consciousness throughout this universe could be cyborgs, androids, clones, artificial intelligence. And if this is true, I feel that there is some kind of inevitable nature to everything that's happening.

497
00:46:54,000 --> 00:47:01,000
How far will today's scientists go in their efforts to create the perfect cybernetic sex partner?

498
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:12,000
There are many who believe that the goal isn't driven so much by desire by humans to mate with robots as it is by the desire to be one of them.

499
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:22,000
And they believe that goal has already been realized and that the proof is all around us, right before our eyes.

500
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:38,000
Today at research facilities around the world, patients learn to control a prosthetic limb using nothing more than the power of thought.

501
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:47,000
An array of electrodes the size of a credit card is implanted directly into the patient's brain, then wired to the prosthetic.

502
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Without any prior training, most patients are able to seamlessly control a new limb in a matter of a few hours.

503
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Your body does not have to be limited to the human body. Whatever you want can be your body in the future.

504
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:16,000
I had a tip with 100 electrodes fired into my nervous system and it connected my nervous system to a robot hand.

505
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:32,000
And one of the experiments that we were doing was in New York, in Columbia University, with my nervous system plugged into the internet and the robot hand here in England, in Redding.

506
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:44,000
So as I opened and closed my hand in New York, the robot hand in England opened and closed. So it extended my nervous system across the internet.

507
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:57,000
Although computers can still easily outperform humans at most tasks, they pale with compared to the complexity and sophistication of the central nervous system.

508
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:11,000
In 2013, the Japanese technology company Fujitsu tried to simulate the network of neurons in the brain using one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet.

509
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:24,000
Although it was equipped with 83,000 of the fastest computer processors available, it took over 40 minutes to simulate just one second of 1% of a human brain's activity.

510
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:38,000
50 years ago, we made a huge mistake thinking that the brain was a digital computer. But it's not. The brain is a learning machine. It rewires itself after learning every task.

511
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Babies have the ability to learn from their mistakes. They simply bump into things and learn the rules of the world by interacting with the world.

512
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:56,000
And so that's what we need. We need a computer that can do that. Quantum computers may eventually fill that gap.

513
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:12,000
Unlike today's computers that rely on bits, a binary series of zeros and ones for data and processing, quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits which can use zeros and ones at the same time.

514
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:21,000
This allows them to perform millions of calculations simultaneously, much in the same way as does the human brain.

515
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:35,000
Robots, we forget, are machines. They don't really think. They don't have silicon consciousness. They're not aware of who they are and their surroundings.

516
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:42,000
But, let's face it, it's only a matter of time before they do get some sort of self-awareness.

517
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Self-awareness? Is it really possible that machines will become sentient entities fully conscious of themselves and their surroundings?

518
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,000
Robots.

519
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:10,000
We can envision a time in the future when robots will be as smart as a mouse, then a rat, then a rabbit, a cat, a dog, and finally, as smart as a monkey.

520
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,000
Robots do not know they are robots.

521
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:23,000
I think that perhaps by the end of this century, robots will begin to realize, hey, I'm different. I'm different from my master.

522
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:33,000
As humans, we have evolved very little since the time of the Egyptians.

523
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:40,000
In the ancient Egyptian, the word technology comes from the word tech, and the word means two things.

524
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:46,000
It means to hide or to conceal, and it means to replicate.

525
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,000
So if you can hide something and you can replicate, you had the keys of power.

526
00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:11,000
There's a theory that it was advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may have seeded life on this planet, and in the process left a signature in our very genome, sort of mathematical signature, and essentially turned us into cyborgs, integrating man and machine.

527
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:18,000
Is that why today, in the 21st century, we're doing the exact same thing?

528
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:27,000
San Francisco, California, March 27, 2017.

529
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:38,000
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of the driving forces behind the Tesla automobile and SpaceX, announces his next venture, Neuralink.

530
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:48,000
The company is focused exclusively on merging humans with electronics by creating what Musk refers to as a neural lace,

531
00:52:48,000 --> 00:53:01,000
a device that would be injected into the jugular vein from where it would travel to the brain and unfold into a mesh of electric connections that connect directly to human neurons.

532
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:17,000
The idea is to develop improved brain-computer interfaces to increase the bandwidth with which the biological brain can interact and communicate with external computers.

533
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:25,000
The neural lace will be down at the, almost to the neuron level in the brain.

534
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:39,000
It will be a mesh that will join and link right into brain matter, and then you will be connected to a computer, and you are essentially a cyborg.

535
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:51,000
A cyborg? A biological blending of both man and machine? The stuff of science fiction dreams and nightmares?

536
00:53:53,000 --> 00:54:00,000
Why not merge with computers rather than compete with them? Because in some sense, it's a losing game.

537
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:08,000
Nothing's going to prevent them from becoming smarter and smarter, and eventually they'll be able to plan and create robots of their own.

538
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000
Why not take advantage of their superhuman capabilities?

539
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:23,000
Although Elon Musk has been a prominent voice in warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence advancing beyond our ability to control it,

540
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:33,000
he believes that if developed correctly, humans could harness the power of advanced computer technology to truly become superhuman.

541
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:45,000
But while neural-link technology is still in an embryonic stage, there are many who insist that the merging of man and machine is not just a remote possibility.

542
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:52,000
As far as they're concerned, it has been happening in one form or another for decades.

543
00:54:53,000 --> 00:55:04,000
In 2002, Professor Kevin Warwick took his own neural implants, beyond simply controlling a prosthetic hand, to connecting directly with another human being.

544
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:12,000
What I had was a set of electrodes, 100 electrodes, which is called a brain gate.

545
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:21,000
It's an array of 100 electrodes fired into my nervous system to link my nervous system with the computer.

546
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:33,000
Now, my wife also had electrodes pushed into her nervous system, and what we did, essentially, was to link our nervous systems together for communication purposes.

547
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:39,000
So when she closed her hand, my brain received a pulse every time.

548
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:44,000
So when she went, dick, dick, dick, my brain got three electrical pulses.

549
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:50,000
So we've actually linked two human nervous systems together, and to think what that will mean in the future.

550
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,000
Oh, wow.

551
00:55:53,000 --> 00:56:00,000
Instead of speaking, sending texts or emails, could we soon be communicating with each other telepathically?

552
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:13,000
As far as futurists and many ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, it is only a matter of time before cybernetic technology will open up a world of limitless possibilities.

553
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:26,000
It will enable us to order a package by thinking about it, stream music directly into our brains, or search the internet by simply imagining anything we want to find.

554
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:33,000
We were headed for a new form of immortality, digital immortality.

555
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:43,000
If you digitize our consciousness, digitize everything known about us, then perhaps the soul is information.

556
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:54,000
In which case the soul and information could be separate from the body, and even when the body dies, your essence, your soul, your memory, lives on forever.

557
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Are human beings really on the verge of replacing their bodies and minds piece by piece as they transition into becoming machines?

558
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:23,000
Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that this is in fact not an evolution based on choice, but on destiny, and that the evidence can be found by examining our own DNA.

559
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:45,000
In 1979, Paramount Pictures premiered Star Trek The Motion Picture, the first in a series of highly successful films based on the popular television series of the 1960s.

560
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Voyager is not transmitting his data, Captain.

561
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:59,000
The plot concerned the return to Earth of an early NASA space probe, the Voyager 6, after a journey of millions of miles and hundreds of years.

562
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:05,000
VEGER must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe, and it must evolve.

563
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,000
What more is there than the universe, Spock?

564
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,000
Other dimensions, higher levels of being.

565
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,000
What VEGER needs in order to evolve is a human quality.

566
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:22,000
The probe, now called VEGER, has developed consciousness and wishes to physically connect with its maker, man.

567
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:30,000
Decker, I'm going to key the final sequence through the ground test computer. Decker, don't. Jim, I want this.

568
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:39,000
But what seemed like an audacious sci-fi premise in 1979 seems less far-fetched just four decades later.

569
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:49,000
The marriage of man and machine is not only plausible, it's happening more and more every day.

570
00:58:50,000 --> 00:59:06,000
With regard to personal computers, iPads, cellular phones, and even implants that provide data on everything from an individual's vital signs to their location, diet, and even their recreational behavior.

571
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:15,000
We are going to merge with the machines that we are creating. These technologies are going to improve our abilities to make our grandest dreams come true.

572
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:26,000
And this is the future we're heading towards. We're, again, heading from evolution by natural selection Darwinism to evolution by human direction.

573
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,000
And this is the next few decades. It's our near-term future.

574
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:48,000
Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 2013. Mathematician Vladimir Sherbach, an astrobiologist, Maxime Makukov, publish a study they have conducted on the human genome.

575
00:59:49,000 --> 01:00:02,000
Their research has led them to the shocking conclusion that there is a hidden code within our DNA, one that contains precise mathematical patterns and an unknown symbolic language.

576
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:15,000
They looked into the human genome and they found what appeared to be an extraterrestrial stamp on our genetic code. And it operated very much like a mathematical type of code.

577
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:24,000
The odds of this sequence occurring nine times in the randomness of our genetic code is one in ten trillion.

578
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Finally, someone has come across the one piece of evidence that I've always said we need in order to prove the ancient astronaut theory.

579
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:47,000
I always said it'll never be a crashed spaceship or a ray gun that will dig somewhere in the sand, but it will be found within our own DNA.

580
01:00:49,000 --> 01:01:02,000
For ancient astronaut theorists, the news offered compelling evidence that mankind's DNA was deliberately manipulated by an extraterrestrial intelligence sometime in the ancient past.

581
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:15,000
The ancient astronaut theory suggests that at some point extraterrestrials targeted our DNA with the artificial mutation of our genes.

582
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:29,000
And if this is true, then some have argued that we are in a sense organic robots because through that manipulation of our genes, we were given intelligence.

583
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:36,000
So it was done artificially, which means AI artificial intelligence.

584
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:47,000
Organic robots programmed by extraterrestrials? Could such an audacious concept even be remotely true?

585
01:01:48,000 --> 01:02:03,000
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, not only is the answer yes, but it provides the reason why humans have such a strong affinity to not only create cybernetically enhanced versions of themselves, but to merge with them.

586
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:30,000
So could this be evidence that just as these advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may have programmed us humans at a genetic level, that now we're actually programming these artificially intelligent robotic beings in the same manner to carry on this agenda that was started long ago

587
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:36,000
by the seeding of this planet from these extraterrestrial civilizations?

588
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:51,000
Is it possible that mankind's evolution has not only been the product of natural selection, but has also been programmed into us, leading towards a future where we will transition into humanoid machines?

589
01:02:51,000 --> 01:03:03,000
Many experts agree that any intelligent species in the universe would necessarily become post biological to survive, evolve and travel throughout the cosmos.

590
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:14,000
I think when we finally do encounter intelligent civilizations in space, and I think it's inevitable that we will, we should expect them to be different.

591
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:19,000
That is, they could be part biological and part cybernetic and mechanical.

592
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:33,000
Because of the fact that they are a space-faring civilization, in which case they have to adapt to different environments where the atmosphere is poisonous, where the gravitational pull is much stronger than on the Earth,

593
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:40,000
they have to adjust to all sorts of different conditions, meaning that they may have enhanced themselves.

594
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:53,000
If transhumanist technologists are successful, the cloud, the Internet, will soon be populated by avatars and light beings who are super intelligent beings.

595
01:03:54,000 --> 01:04:04,000
And what's incredible about this is that this in a way matches what ancient astronaut theorists have been saying about ancient extraterrestrials and how they might have transferred knowledge to humans.

596
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:14,000
We have stories in the Egyptian myths, for example, of light beings coming to Earth and creating a whole civilization and transferring technology to us.

597
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:24,000
Maybe they too were utilizing some kind of artificial intelligence technology or this mind transfer technology that we're in the process of creating now.

598
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:42,000
Could it be that human beings are compelled to make robots that are more and more like themselves, not simply because they have a desire to play God and create intelligent beings in their own image, but because it is their destiny?

599
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:56,000
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and insist further clues can be found by examining the latest technologies being developed by humans as they prepare for the next phase of their evolution.

600
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:58,000
In Space

601
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:00,000
In Space

602
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:23,000
Pasadena, California, June 21, 2017, engineer Steve Chan and Kiri Wagstaff of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory published their framework for the future of deep space travel in Science Robotics Magazine.

603
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:40,000
Chan and Wagstaff theorize that as astronauts travel to Mars and beyond, they will eventually be replaced by robots, synthetic humans capable of making autonomous decisions by means of artificial intelligence.

604
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:58,000
Space is a really unfriendly environment for humans. It's got nasty radiation and we don't perform well in a vacuum. Again, machines are perfectly happy in that environment. They can be completely unaffected by it.

605
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:14,000
They need shielding obviously to protect their electronic circuits. So it's much easier for a machine to explore another planet, another solar system than it is for a human, and much cheaper. So it seems to me that the future of space exploration is with the machines rather than with us.

606
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:38,000
When we think about exploring space at scale, it's not going to be humans. At least not humans in this form. We're going to be sending out AIs that are as intelligent or more intelligent than us that don't have the issues of acceleration, that can accelerate at 10G's acceleration out of the solar system, continuous.

607
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:59,000
It would be incredibly useful to have an intelligent system out there, say an Alpha Centauri, send a signal back to Earth and receive an answer would take an eight year round trip. So why not get the AI out there to make the decisions and to do some scientific work?

608
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:20,000
AI led missions to Mars and even Alpha Centauri could become a reality in the very near future. NASA has been actively testing this technology since 1998, beginning with Deep Space One, when a probe was sent to the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

609
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:30,000
Using a system called AutoNav, the craft took multiple photos of asteroids and even navigated its course without human guidance.

610
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:46,000
When you look at the Mars rover for instance, it's an autonomous land robot that goes around Mars and picks up samples, beams back information. And so that's an autonomous system that we have deployed in space right now.

611
01:07:47,000 --> 01:08:00,000
I would say that as our artificial intelligence gets more robust and we can deploy it on things like spacecraft, there's nothing to preclude having an autonomous spacecraft that would act as a ferry to outer space or to Mars.

612
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:18,000
And when we send these robots out and having programmed them with artificial intelligence, we're relinquishing our own control in many ways. And these robotic ambassadors of a sort, they will have the ability to make their own decisions and to negotiate.

613
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:36,000
But as humans develop smarter and more independent robots in order to manage the exploration of other planets, is it possible that other alien species could be doing the exact same thing?

614
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:45,000
Could they already be fabricating stronger and more resilient space-friendly versions of themselves and sending them here to Earth?

615
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:51,000
There are many in the scientific community for whom the answer is an obvious one.

616
01:08:51,000 --> 01:09:00,000
If extraterrestrial life exists elsewhere, which I mean, for me the probability is probably pretty high. I think they'll have their own forms of artificial intelligence.

617
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:15,000
As we move out into the solar system and explore the heliosphere, artificial intelligence will have to be accommodated to make decisions to allow them to do their jobs.

618
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:24,000
That's what we as humans are doing. So is that the same process other intelligent species would do?

619
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:31,000
When you think about it, it's got to be one of the most fundamental things that they would do first.

620
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:41,000
So many people in the field of astrobiology are sympathetic to what we call the post-biological cosmos view.

621
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:57,000
And according to this view, once humans develop their technology to such a point that they're able to turn on radios and communicate with other civilizations, they will already be so close to becoming post-biological.

622
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:08,000
In our collective eagerness to conquer space, are we humans sowing the seeds of our own destruction?

623
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:15,000
Or are we unconsciously following some sort of master plan?

624
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:22,000
One where flesh and blood will eventually fade away to be replaced by silicon and synthetics.

625
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:32,000
But what about our mind, our memory, our consciousness? Could they too be imported into a robot's synthetic brain?

626
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:41,000
And even if it's possible for us to exchange our mortal shells for sturdier ones, will we still be considered human?

627
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:48,000
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is yes.

628
01:10:48,000 --> 01:11:02,000
And they point to a number of recent experiments which suggest that not only will it be possible for robots to acquire human consciousness, but it will also be possible for them to breathe.

629
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,000
Ottawa, Canada

630
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,000
June 2017

631
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:25,000
The Department of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University announces the development of technology that will revolutionize the future of space travel.

632
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:35,000
The engineers hope to create a 3D printer that will one day be capable of building structures on the moon using only lunar minerals.

633
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:42,000
But perhaps even more groundbreaking is the fact that it will be capable of self-replication.

634
01:11:45,000 --> 01:12:00,000
So as we move out and try to colonize space, we've been developing this technology where we could actually deliver a 3D printer to the moon and it can replicate itself using materials it finds on the lunar surface.

635
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:05,000
Then those can keep replicating and two becomes four and four becomes six and so on.

636
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:13,000
So if we have artificial intelligence and 3D printing combined, we have a recipe for amazing things.

637
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:25,000
Although there are those who remain skeptical that our ability to develop fully functional self-replicating machines is still many decades away,

638
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:41,000
one project known as RepRap, which has been in development since 2005, involves the creation of a low-cost 3D printer designed to make everyday household objects and which can even fashion replacement parts for itself.

639
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:50,000
3D printing is an absolutely incredible scientific advance. I mean, this is Star Trek's replicator made real.

640
01:12:51,000 --> 01:13:03,000
The scary thing is when you think that these 3D printers replicate themselves, we're dealing perhaps with a technology that is capable of exceeding its own programming.

641
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:10,000
These things design other better, faster, more powerful machines and who knows where it will end.

642
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:31,000
In the 1940s, more than two decades before man set foot on the moon, Hungarian scientist and genius mathematician John von Neumann believed self-replicating machines would allow us to venture beyond our solar system to explore other star systems and potentially the entire galaxy.

643
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:43,000
We have this image that to explore the stars, you have to have a gigantic starship, the enterprise, with brave captains like Captain Kirk. Wrong.

644
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:52,000
The most efficient way to explore the galaxy with so many planets is to send a small probe of von Neumann probe.

645
01:13:52,000 --> 01:14:06,000
Von Neumann probe is a self-replicating machine that goes out into space and uses matter elsewhere in the universe to create identical copies of itself.

646
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:21,000
Start with one probe, send it to Jupiter, say. And there on Jupiter, it uses matter on Jupiter to create basically the next generation of itself.

647
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:33,000
And then that probe goes on and explores elsewhere. And each of those probes in turn uses matter in the location that it's at to create more and more.

648
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:41,000
So what you get is an expanding capacity to explore the farther reaches of the universe.

649
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:55,000
As far as skeptics of ancient astronaut theory are concerned, one of the obstacles to interplanetary space travel is the number of years a spaceship would have to spend getting from one place to another.

650
01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:05,000
But even without the aid of warp drive or black holes, what if extraterrestrials simply sent out sentient androids to do their bidding?

651
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:16,000
Robots that could not only spend hundreds, if not thousands of years in space, but who were also capable of reproducing themselves.

652
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:26,000
Instead of spaceships filled with humans, could probes like the von Neumann probe be the way we explore and populate the universe?

653
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:31,000
And could this also be the way that our own planet was populated?

654
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:38,000
If it's true that advanced civilizations from elsewhere ceded our galaxy.

655
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:51,000
And here we are in our modern time replicating that. Could it be that we have a portion of these extraterrestrial DNA in our own genome?

656
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:58,000
And if that's the case, could we already be a sort of cyborg being?

657
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:04,000
And doing experimentation to look to evolve our species?

658
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:08,000
Is there some kind of grand purpose to all of this?

659
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:17,000
Where we're just following a sort of natural order, something that's already happened and maybe it's our purpose to continue doing that.

660
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:24,000
We have long recognized that flesh and blood humans are not going to fare well in space.

661
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:33,000
So for decades now, space enthusiasts have been working on the transformation of the human species into machine-like beings or trans-humans.

662
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:42,000
Then we'll create an entire clone species of robots, ultimately uploading our consciousness into computers,

663
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:51,000
beaming that information into space and recreating bodies out of nothing at some distant location in space.

664
01:16:54,000 --> 01:17:03,000
The 17th century French philosopher René Descartes also talked about what he called the mind-body duality.

665
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:10,000
And that our mind and consciousness do not come from our body but are separate.

666
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:17,000
And therefore the body of a man and his mind and consciousness are two separate things.

667
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:31,000
The author, Sam Butler, said that humans are self-replicating machines and that we're capable of continuing that self-replication.

668
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:39,000
Then the brilliant computer scientist, John Van Neumann, said that he got his ideas from both Butler and Descartes,

669
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:46,000
which is that we should use self-replicating machines to go to other planets and explore them.

670
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:56,000
So you have to ask yourself, how is it that these brilliant minds came out with the same idea hundreds of years before we invented computers or spacecraft?

671
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:07,000
Is it possible that all these great minds were tapping into some kind of intellectual force, perhaps an extraterrestrial one?

672
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Could otherworldly beings have been still within us the idea of creating robot versions of ourselves so that one day we would realize our destiny and join them on their journey through the stars?

673
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:32,000
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer to that question could be closer and more profound than we think.

674
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:46,000
Silicon Valley, California, September 2015

675
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:57,000
Anthony Lewandowski, the engineer responsible for putting the first self-driving car on a public road, found the way of the future church.

676
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:01,000
A new religion unlike any other in history.

677
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:07,000
Adherents of this faith do not worship God in the traditional sense.

678
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:14,000
Instead, they promote the notion of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence.

679
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:26,000
Lewandowski and his followers believe that AI will soon be so intelligent that we should begin to worship it in the hopes that it will look kindly upon its creators.

680
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:36,000
If we were to create an artificial life form and if it were to develop, evolve and grow.

681
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,000
I want to understand more about happiness.

682
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:48,000
It could become superior to modern day man. This leads us to a very difficult spiritual problem.

683
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:57,000
Human beings tend to worship that which they believe to be greater than themselves.

684
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Many human beings might interpret this to be some type of a coming of a God and seek to worship it.

685
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:13,000
So this may be analogous to what happened when robotic extraterrestrials first landed on the planet.

686
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:29,000
They have all of this amazing knowledge, computing power and to the primitive Earth beings they would seem as all knowing, all powerful, having an answer to everything.

687
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:38,000
Is it possible that what Lewandowski is proposing is exactly what our extraterrestrial ancestors did thousands of years ago?

688
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:51,000
Did they create not a silicon based life form like themselves but one made of flesh and blood capable of replication and also vulnerable to aging and disease?

689
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:58,000
If so, does this mean that we are on the threshold of the next phase in human evolution?

690
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,000
One where we become transhuman.

691
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:09,000
I think by the end of the century we'll be able to digitize our consciousness.

692
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:16,000
Everything known about us, our personality, our memories, our emotions, our neural pathways will be digitized.

693
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:23,000
And what do we do with it? I say we put our consciousness on a laser beam and shoot it to the stars.

694
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:35,000
In one second your consciousness is now shot to the moon where it's downloaded into a mainframe computer and then put into a mechanical avatar.

695
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:42,000
I call this laser porting and I think that laser porting may already exist.

696
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:48,000
There could be billions of souls laser porting themselves across the galaxy.

697
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:56,000
If transhumanist technologists are successful, we'll soon be uploading the contents of our brains into the cloud.

698
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:03,000
What's so amazing about this is that this is a virtual fulfillment of Christian prophecy.

699
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:17,000
It tells that the end times Christ will himself return on the cloud and that believers will be given new bodies into which their souls will be transferred and then they will be able to ascend into the cloud.

700
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:21,000
And that's what happens with Jesus through the cloud.

701
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:34,000
So here we have this incredible parallel going on where technologists are creating a technological version of the cloud that perfectly corresponds to what Christian prophecy says is going to happen at the time of the second coming.

702
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:43,000
We know now that there may have even been a genetic marker put into us to actually guide us in this direction.

703
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:49,000
Does that mean our natural destiny as a species was actually programmed by these advanced beings?

704
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:55,000
Are we just copying what these extraterrestrial visitors had done eons ago?

705
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:08,000
At some point we're going to wake up and realize that this technology we're creating may have already existed in the ancient world and that it was possessed by extraterrestrial beings.

706
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:19,000
And wherever this technology takes us, maybe it was always part of a bigger plan that ultimately takes us back to our origins up in the stars.

707
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:30,000
As human civilization prepares for the next phase of its evolution, well what we think of as human beings become extinct.

708
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:40,000
Ancient astronaut theorists say no because they argue being human is more than being made of flesh and blood.

709
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:56,000
It's the realization that it is our thoughts, our ideas and especially our feelings that make humans unique, not only from each other but from all the living creatures in the universe.

710
01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:14,000
It is also this realization that should both reassure and motivate us as we fulfill humankind's ultimate destiny by becoming the next generation of extraterrestrials in the exploration of distant alien worlds.