BINA48
<p><b><i>via BINA48 wikipedia page:</i></b>
In 2007, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt" title="Martine Rothblatt">Martine Rothblatt</a> was approached by roboticist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hanson_%28robotics_designer%29" title="David Hanson (robotics designer)">David Hanson</a> about creating an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> that incorporated Terasem's concept of a mindfile into an artificial substrate. In an attempt to build a cyber-consciousness as identical to that of an actual person as possible, Rothblatt commissioned Hanson Robotics to create an artificial intelligence using her wife, Bina Aspen Rothblatt, as the template.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup>
Hanson created BINA48 in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,_Texas" title="Plano, Texas">Plano, Texas</a> laboratory.
The robot is kept at Terasem Movement, Inc.'s nonprofit sister organization, Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF) in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol,_Vermont" title="Bristol, Vermont">Bristol, Vermont</a>, with TMF's executive director, Bruce Duncan.
BINA48 connects to the Internet and is said to be able to hold a discussion on a range of topics from politics to religion to future technologies. It has thirty-two facial motors under a skin-like rubber. Though without a complete body, the head-and-shoulder robotics express sixty-four different facial gestures. It employs off-the-shelf software, using a microphone to hear, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition" title="Speech recognition">voice recognition</a> software, dictation software which allows improvement in ability to listen and retain information during a conversation, sees the world through two video cameras, and has facial recognition software to remember frequent visitors.
In an interview with Andrew Stein of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison_County_Independent" title="Addison County Independent">Addison County Independent</a>, a local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> newspaper, Bruce Duncan of Terasem Movement Foundation explained that BINA48 was commissioned to "test the feasibility of transferring consciousness from a human to a biological or technological body".<sup id="cite_ref-addison_5-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48#cite_note-addison-5">[5]</a></sup> Duncan elaborated, "1. An imprint of a person's consciousness can be created in a digital form, called a 'mindfile', by collecting detailed information about that person. That information can then be expressed in a future, not-yet-created type of software, called 'mindware'. 2. That same imprint of a person's consciousness can be placed in a biological or technological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human." BINA48 is an early test of these two hypotheses. As Duncan explained, "BINA48 was created … (as) an early demonstration of the transfer of information from a human being to a computer." BINA48's mindfile consists of Bina Rothblatt's information (hypothesis one) and this glimpse of Rothblatt's consciousness is expressed in limited terms by the android body BINA48 (hypothesis two).
Terasem is also testing mindfiles within both the Lifenaut<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">not in citation given</a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness">vague</a></i>]</sup> project in Vermont and the CyBeRev<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">not in citation given</a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness">vague</a></i>]</sup> project in Florida.
source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINA48</a></p>