“It’s the degree, amount, rate, that makes it impossible,” Grazier said. 'That’s a real-life force field.'īut channeling enough force to project a hologram to a distant battle is, of course, unrealistic. “If there’s a magnetic field and a charged particle passes through it, it will experience a force,” Grazier said. The forces we experience on Earth may not operate like the powerful, people-projecting, weapon-deflecting one in 'Star Wars' - but force fields do happen here. Sophia still sounds very robotic, but it can converse without pre-programmed responses - a potential first step towards more robot helpers for humans.Īudience holds up lightsabers during the announcement of 'Star Wars:The Force Awakens' as the Movie of the Year winner during the 2016 MTV Movie Awards at Warner Bros. Meanwhile, a robot named Sophia managed to become the first AI of its kind granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia earlier this year. Last week, scientists at NASA announced they’d successfully employed Google’s machine learning to track down two new planets.

That's still not as sharp as an average six-year-old, but it's an impressive leap. But researchers are betting that Google’s AI is going to get much smarter in the coming years - in 2014, it was estimated to have an IQ around 26.5, but by 2016, Google AI had nearly doubled its smarts to an IQ of 47.3. “In the not too distant future we will probably have droids that are as smart as C-3PO and BB-8” Grazier said.Ĭurrently, Google’s AI is doing okay at a handful of languages - whereas C-3PO is fluent in over 6,000. The way the Star Wars crew employs artificial intelligence is not so far from reality.

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