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So, we're becoming evermore 
integrated with technology.

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It's everywhere.

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But technology is really 
what we make of it.

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And, we should really 
bring it to the next level.

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And I think the way we can do this,

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is ask the question, 
"how can technology learn from us?"

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And the way it can learn from us,

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is that we can teach it.

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We can teach about humanity.

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And by doing so, 
it can make us more human.

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Lack of understanding 
knowledge and empathy,

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is the root cause 
of many human problems.

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And I believe we could use technology,

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to increase our level of understanding.

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We can get knowledge from places

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like the Internet, 
but the Internet in itself

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is not inquisitive.

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These are the BlabDroids.

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And they are robots created 
to learn about people.

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And they do this by going around,

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and asking people questions,

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as most of us do when we want to learn.

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And you can see they are very cute,

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and made to be very friendly.

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Because if you want to have 
a relationship with a robot,

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it better be pretty nice .

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(Laughter)

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So, next you'll see a couple of examples

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of the BlabDroids asking some people

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somewhat difficult questions.

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Robot: if you could give someone any gift,

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what would it be?

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Woman: Give my mother the gift

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of not worrying about me

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before she dies.

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And she wants me to lose,

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like a ton of weight,

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and get really really healthy.

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And she needs to see that,

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before she dies,

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For her to feel like I am going 
to be Ok when she is not here,

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and I wish I could give her that.

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And I am not positive I can.

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You asked!

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Robot: if you died tomorrow, 
what would you regret the most?

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Woman: I switched out her shampoo

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for a Nair hair remover

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when she wasn't looking,

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and clumps of her hair fell out.

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I felt like she deserved it,

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it's very much still justified .

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And I would do it again to her

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in a heartbeat.

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I still don't like her.

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So these are the types of things

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that you may not tell a person

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who is coming up to you with questions,

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but the robots in fact got those answers.

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So, the ideas are these robots will become

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a tangible manifestation 
of cloud intelligence

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that can both learn and teach.

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And as I said before,

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the Internet in itself 
doesn't necessarily learn,

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but these robots can be made in a way

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that we want to interact with them 
on a very high level.

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Think of them as if you had 
a dog in your house

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that asked you questions,

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but you could also ask it questions.

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So how do we make 
something like this happen?

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Well the first step is making it,

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and we partnered with a few people like

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Dragon innovation to do manufacturing

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and bolt to form a company around us.

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The idea is that these Robots,

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will connect to the cloud 
through your cell phone

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using bluetooth.

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So we're all carrying around

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these devices in our pockets

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that are basically very smart computers,

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and they also have network connectivity.

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So, we can do things with a robot like,

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asking simple questions,

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you know, will it rain?

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The robot would say, yeah, it might rain,

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you may want an umbrella.

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But asking it more 
difficult questions like,

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are we alone in the universe,

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or things of that sort,

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Need a bit more of a human touch

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than things like Google or Wolfram Alpha,

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or things of that sort, 
may have a hard time answering.

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And one way to do this

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is use cloud knowledge 
and cloud intelligence.

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So say you have 
a question for BlabDroid,

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and it isn't one of 
the simple things like,

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do I have a meeting 
scheduled for tomorrow?

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It might say, "Well, gee! 
I don't know I'll ask my friends."

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So the robot then accesses the cloud,

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and talks to all his other 
BlabDroid buddies

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and asks them, "hey, 
does your human know

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something about this person's question?"

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They may say, "Yes, let me contact them."

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But as you can see, 
some of these guys are a little busy

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but a couple of them
may have a good idea.

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So these people can 
tell the robot the answer,

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either by looking up or 
maybe they're an expert in the field.

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And that knowledge 
can be returned to that robot.

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And at the same time, 
that knowledge can be saved online

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in this sort of emergent intelligence

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where, OK, the robot couldn't find it 
through traditional means,

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now it's stored that human knowledge.

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So imagine like,
a Robot asking grandma

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what her favorite cookie recipe is.

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That's something that might have been
lost to time in the past.

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But by using these social
interfaces that can be stored.

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And there are obviously things right now

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where you can talk to your cell phone,

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and talk to other things where

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you can ask it questions
and they'll give you answers,

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but the primitive parts for our brains

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don't think cell phones are alive,

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even if they had voices because

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they're not persistent beings,

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they're not objects that always stay

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alive, in a way, where, a robot,
a robot in itself is a physical form,

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so even though it is connected 
to this cloud intelligence,

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it's something that our brains
perceive as alive,

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and the way you want to do this,

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is that we want them
to be very fun and playful,

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so you want to talk to them,

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you want to converse with them,

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not only asking them things,

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but also having them
with you as companions.

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So in the future,
we think that these can create a...

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until now undocumented part of humanity.

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So a lot of this oral tradition,

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a lot of storytelling,

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which has been, interacting 
into humanity,

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has been kind of lost in the Internet age

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for these can start getting ideas.

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Reduce costs of cell phones.

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will allow these to permeate more places,

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And a new breed of social knowledge

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through sharing and interacting
allows to connect to people,

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that maybe culturally disperse.

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There are a lot of problems
to solve obviously,

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technical issues such as

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voice recognition and data storage,

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and that AI in the backend,

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issues such as privacy and security,

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Because obviously 
you're telling the robot things,

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and other problems such as
will personal robots be adopted?

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That's more of a social question.

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So to trail off here,

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I figured we would have one example,

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so, imagine you asked your robot,

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you know, what created the moon?

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Who better to answer it

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than someone like
Chris Hatfield and ISS astronauts.

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So let's see what he has to say.

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Robot: What created the moon?

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Chris Hatfield: What created the moon?

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The moon was created about

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four billion years ago,

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when a huge rocky early planet

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slammed into the Earth.

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Something about the size of Mars

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crashed into the Earth

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like two big wet pool balls,

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billiard balls, slamming into each other,

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and ripped a big section out of the Earth,

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went off like a big globe into space

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and started orbiting the world

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and slowly cooled

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and got further and further

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from the world over the billions of years

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until it finally coalesced

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and looks just like our moon does today.

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So truly, the moon is like
the daughter of the Earth

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(Applause)