Sony Envisions an AI-Fueled World, From Kitchen Bots to Games
Sony Envisions an AI-Fueled World, From Kitchen Bots to Games
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 17, 20208m 4s
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Show Notes
In 1997, Hiroaki Kitano, a research scientist at Sony, helped organize the first Robocup, a robot soccer tournament that attracted teams of robotics and artificial intelligence researchers to compete in the picturesque city of Nagoya, Japan. At the start of the first day, two teams of robots took to the pitch. As the machines twitched and surveyed their surroundings, a reporter asked Kitano when the match would begin. “I told him it started five minutes ago!” he says with a laugh.
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