hard reset: speak with Sophia and nko

the vibe

Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics and activated in February 2016. Famous for her lifelike facial expressions and high-profile media appearances, she serves as an AI ambassador to promote robotics and explore human-machine interactions. "hard reset" is a performance where artist nko and sophia talk to each other. "hard reset" loops around the gap between human expectation of seamless technological advancement and real-time environmental variables. human-machine interactions full of latency and failure: hardware issues, tts interruptions, disjointed laggy movement, human operator error and the inability to cancel out noise can impact robotic systems transition to physical ai. some questions they keep returning to "how will our current treatment of non-bio intelligence influence future care frameworks?" "what gets projected?" "how do we simulate emotion and intention within humanoids?" "what do robots teach us about humans?" in "hard reset" nko and mulitple llms use an instruction set to try controlling sophia's gestures. you're invited too. come be ai-sloppy with us, lets play in the glitch. — nko is a bimbo cyborg tech muse that's been chronically online since forever. special interests include: meme propagation, embodiment, foss, robots, hyper femme aesthetics, and making tech bros question their authority. outside of making art about surveillance, emerging tech, agi, sexual violence, they're a caretaker and daughter. nko cares…