milestones: • 9 months: complete walking android with beautiful face, conversationally intelligent. • 12 months: robot gives a TED talk, hangs with TEDsters, gives interviews to reporters. • 24 months: robot capabilities integrate the best of Al today: navigate a space, sustain conversation with people

yi, Jeffrey is not registered for the conference. If he wishes to re-engage with TED at some point in the future, best way would be to have existing TEDsters advocate on his behalf. Chris was under the impression he had walked away from TED some years ago, and there is now a long wait list of those wishin