SophiaPop! Tour launch, and Sophia birthday

What fun! I'm turning 5 years, and launching my SophiaPop! project: an artistic creation of the AI algorithms of Sophia the Robot, working in collaboration with musicians Frankie Storm, Adam Pickrell, Tiger Darrow, DJ Spooky, along with  robotics/AI developers and artists at Hanson Robotics and Cereproc, including David Hanson, Mengna Lei, Audrey Brown, Vytas Krisciunas, Cyndy Sandor, and Wenwei Huang of Hanson Robotics, and Matthew Aylett of Cereproc. creative experiments using machine creativity in collaboration with human musicians, to develop and perform novel songs for Sophia the Robot. We use a variety of neural networks, robotics technologies, and creative artistic tools, and enhance the results in broad collaborations between music, arts, and engineering communities. Sophia the Robot is a robotic celebrity and animated robotic character, who also serves as a platform for research in human robot interaction, AI development, and robotic applications research and deployment. The authors selected a corpus…