“Sophia is not programmed with pre-prepared answers.”
Perhaps because it’s a high-tech puppet. A speaker system with a rubber face and servo motors.
Yeah, there could be at least some interaction with an operator:
> her brain, which functions with a simple WiFi connection, is loaded with a long list of vocabulary.
And if they’re not talking about about individual words, they’re contradicting the statement about prepared responses.
I suspect it’s a combination of things. It probably looks for keywords in the question and matches it to a canned response, possibly with help of a person on the handy wifi connection.