{"id":169140,"date":"2018-07-03T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169140"},"modified":"2018-07-03T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T02:37:11","slug":"ethiopias-new-prime-minister-meets-with-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/03\/ethiopias-new-prime-minister-meets-with-humanoid-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s new prime minister meets with humanoid robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169148\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/709px-Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_27254369347_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169148\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/709px-Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_27254369347_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"The chief of staff for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has shared online a photo of Monday's meeting with Sophia. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"709\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/709px-Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_27254369347_cropped.jpg 709w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/709px-Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_27254369347_cropped-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chief of staff for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has shared online a photo of Monday&#8217;s meeting with Sophia. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia \u2013 In one of the world&#8217;s more unusual diplomatic encounters, Ethiopia&#8217;s new prime minister has met with a humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p>The chief of staff for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has shared online a photo of Monday&#8217;s meeting with Sophia, who has gained global attention for using facial and speech recognition to help engage in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The robot, made in Hong Kong by Hanson Robotics, is fitted with software in part developed by Ethiopians and has been programmed to speak the country&#8217;s official language, Amharic, as well as English.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to maximize the benefit of this technology and also prepare to deal with its downsides,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The robot came to the East African country for an information technology expo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia \u2013 In one of the world&#8217;s more unusual diplomatic encounters, Ethiopia&#8217;s new prime minister has met with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":169148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,17],"tags":[52163,18784,52637,52636],"class_list":["post-169140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-technology","category-news-w","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-ethiopia","tag-hanson-robotics","tag-sophia","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}