Will Smith shares awkward date, tries to kiss Sophia the Robot
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Will Smith may have just celebrated his 20th anniversary with Jada Pinkett Smith, but that didn’t stop him from going on a romantic wine date with Sofia the Robot in the Cayman Islands.
In what appears to be a sketch for the 49-year-old star’s YouTube channel, Smith pours a glass of wine and tries to make small talk with the highly advanced humanoid robot. Unfortunately, the affection appears to be very one-sided.
The duo begin to chat about music, with Sophia noting that she likes 80s hip-hop. Smith thinks they’ll find common ground when he mentioned that he put out his fair share of hip-hop tracks in that decade. But it wasn’t enough to break through the robot's demeanor.
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“I’ve heard your song. Not for me,” she says.
From there, she brings up an awkward subject for the actor, his 2004 movie “I, Robot.” In the film, Smith plays a cop who suspects that robots are being programmed to carry out murderous tasks. It includes a lot of scenes in which his character kills several of the automatons.
“They show us ‘I, Robot’ just to make sure we truly don’t get any ideas.”
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Things ended for good when Sophia rejected him upon leaning in for a kiss. Once the joke was over, Smith unironically thanked Hanson Robotics for working with him to make the video.
“Sophia the robot represents state of the art artificial intelligence. She is a super advanced humanoid robot, capable of showing over 60 different human expressions, interpreting human language and emotion. She’s been in development for over two years. She’s a learning artificial intelligence,” he said.
“But, she wouldn’t kiss me… so there’s probably, you know, some development flaws that they need to work on.”
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You can watch the awkward date below.