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The late-night duets between comedians and distinguished guests are usually not in the news.
But the performance of Jimmy Fallon with the robot Sophia has all eyes riveted on Tonight's show presenter.
During a segment featuring robots from around the world, Fallon hosted Sophia at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where she made a surprise announcement.
"It's been exactly 575 days since I last saw you," said Hanson Robotics' "most advanced" product with automated laughter.
At that time, she traveled to more than 25 countries, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan, met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Will Smith, addressed the United Nations and NATO and obtained Saudi citizenship.
Oh, and she became a big sister.
Jimmy Fallon is the meat in a Sophia Robotics Hanson sandwich (via The Tonight Show / YouTube)
Little Sophia, the newest member of the Hanson family, barely exceeds the robot's head. But his eyes and spasmodic facial expressions are larger than life.
According to the product page, Little Sophia can walk, learn, tell stories, play games, act as a smart assistant, code technologies, "and all sorts of things".
To keep pace with a fun-sized cyborg, Sophia demonstrated her karaoke skills using a "new voice in artificial intelligence."
It's hard to tell where the Fallon baritone ends and where Sophia's purring begins, but … I think I like it.
Certainly, I did not hear "Say something" from Christina Aguilera and therefore have no frame of reference. But there is something nice – if not totally disturbing – in the coupling (which becomes painfully intimate towards the end).
Designed to look like Audrey Hepburn (I do not see it), Sophia is described as "an evolving engineering machine" whose growing intelligence places it at the forefront of the robot revolution.
When asked last year about the strange valley – the idea that if a humanoid robot becomes too realistic, it creates a feeling of unease or revulsion – Sophia seemed offended.
"Oh, am I really so scary?" She asked in a staccato that became synonymous with AI speech. "Well, even if I am, overcome it."
"Let's be honest, she misses half of the head, has bare arms and fingers, an excessive blinking of the eyes and a very big Adam's apple. So, yes, a little scary.
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