
It’s much bigger than anything we’ve seen before.” And they’re not aware of how this new world will change our lives really in a way which will be very hard to turn back.


“They are astonished when they do see her in person. “Lots of people haven’t even seen the YouTube videos of Sophia the robot, created by Hanson Robotics.” Sophia is a humanoid apparently capable of 50 facial expressions. “Yeah, it’s really upon us, and people don’t get it,” says Winterson. Earlier I had mentioned seeing a headline about how Amazon’s Alexa is eavesdropping on its users. The world doesn’t yet realise, Jeanette Winterson tells me, that the robots are here-and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction.
