<P> Sophia has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan, and outlets like CNBC, Forbes, Mashable, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian . Sophia was featured in AUDI's annual report and was on the cover of ELLE Brasil magazine . Sophia has also appeared in videos and music videos, including The White King, and as the lead female character in pop singer Leehom Wong's music video A.I. </P> <P> Sophia has been interviewed in the same manner as a human, striking up conversations with hosts . Some replies have been nonsensical, while others have impressed interviewers such as 60 Minutes' Charlie Rose . In a piece for CNBC, when the interviewer expressed concerns about robot behavior, Sophia joked that he had "been reading too much Elon Musk . And watching too many Hollywood movies". Musk tweeted that Sophia could watch The Godfather and suggested "what's the worst that could happen?" Business Insider's chief UK editor Jim Edwards interviewed Sophia, and while the answers were "not altogether terrible", he predicted it was a step towards "conversational artificial intelligence". </P> <P> On October 11, 2017, Sophia was introduced to the United Nations with a brief conversation with the United Nations Deputy Secretary - General, Amina J. Mohammed . On October 25, at the Future Investment Summit in Riyadh, the robot was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, becoming the first robot ever to have a nationality . This attracted controversy as some commentators wondered if this implied that Sophia could vote or marry, or whether a deliberate system shutdown could be considered murder . Social media users used Sophia's citizenship to criticize Saudi Arabia's human rights record . As explained by Ali Al - Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, "Women (in Saudi Arabia) have since committed suicide because they couldn't leave the house, and Sophia is running around (without a male guardian). Saudi law doesn't allow non-Muslims to get citizenship . Did Sophia convert to Islam? What is the religion of this Sophia and why isn't she wearing hijab? If she applied for citizenship as a human she wouldn't get it ." In December 2017, Sophia's creator David Hanson said in an interview that Sophia will use her citizenship to advocate for women's rights in her now country of citizenship; Newsweek criticized that "What (Hanson) means, exactly, is unclear". . </P> <P> According to Quartz, experts who have reviewed the robot's open - source code state that Sophia is best categorized as a chatbot with a face . Many experts in the AI field disapprove of Sophia's overstated presentation . Ben Goertzel, the chief scientist for the company that made Sophia, acknowledges that it is "not ideal" that some think of Sophia as having human - equivalent intelligence, but argues Sophia's presentation conveys something unique to audiences: "If I show them a beautiful smiling robot face, then they get the feeling that' AGI' (artificial general intelligence) may indeed be nearby and viable...None of this is what I would call AGI, but nor is it simple to get working ." Goertzel added that Sophia does utilize AI methods including face tracking, emotion recognition, and robotic movements generated by deep neural networks . Sophia's dialogue is generated via a decision tree, but is integrated with these outputs uniquely . </P>

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