A silicone-faced humanoid with a transparent skull who told a CNBC interviewer in 2016 that she would destroy humans, received Saudi citizenship in 2017, and toured chat shows for three years as the face of an AI that was mostly a scripted puppet with a pleasant expression. Roboticists complained loudly; the bookings continued. The record's entry for the AI celebrity who was not one.
Sophia the Robot, 2016 to about 2019. Died of ChatGPT being a text box, which made the face redundant. Survived by a quote she did not mean and a passport she did not use.
Prominent researchers called the presentation misleading at the time, and the company said it was a work of art and a platform. Both descriptions are on file. Neither is 'artificial intelligence'.
The record notes the 'destroy humans' line came in answer to a prompt from her own maker, laughing. The clip was cut to remove the laugh. That edit is the whole of Sophia's career.
It is dead. Say something true about it.
