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School in their own country. now, they even have the president at the united states on their team. national security correspondent jennifer griffin talked with some of the girls today. >> its the first global robotics olympia yet for many of these competitors, and theyve had months to prepare. but not the six girls from afghanistan. their robot kits didnt arrive until two weeks before the deadline. ranging in age from 14- 16. >> when i was younger i was watching tv and saw this robot walking and...

The competition. jennifer griffin has a story, and jennifer, you spoke to the team today and you watch them compete. how did they feel about being here? >> alyssa, we hear so much about the war in afghanistan, and to see the look on these girls faces and talk to them about robotics, really, really challenged stereotypes of afghanistan. there are 16 all girl teams are more than 150 countries competing at the first global stem olympia had. their robot can sort blue balls from orange balls and i as...

School in their own country. now, they even have the president at the united states on their team. national security correspondent jennifer griffin talked with some of the girls today. >> its the first global robotics olympia yet for many of these competitors, and theyve had months to prepare. but not the six girls from afghanistan. their robot kits didnt arrive until two weeks before the deadline. ranging in age from 14- 16. >> when i was younger i was watching tv and saw this robot walking and...

Powerful super computer. >> ai is more advanced than people realize and the pace of progress is greater than people realize. its fairly obvious if you saw a robot walking around and talking and behaving like a person, whats that? that would be really obvious. whats not obvious is a huge data bank with intelligence thats vastly great. er than what a human mind can do. >> computers were invented out of necessity. they do things faster than we can. in america nothing is stronger or faster than a su...

It will be obvious if you see a robot walking around behaving like a person. that would be really obvious. what is not obvious is a huge server bank in a dark vault somewhere with an intelligence that is vastly greater than what a human mind can do. >> computers invented out of necessity. they do things faster than we can. in america, nothing is stronger or faster than a super computer named titan. >> some are addressing some of the most important problems we have in the world. we just cant be d...

Snowballs at santa claus. you are taking a risk. >> they are not the soft snowballs. >> they went after them. >> there are like nails in them. >> little batteries matter of fact. >> he is a robot. you would theng he knows the crime statistics. if you are supposed to be so smart, he is no ibm watson. >> do you think it has something to do with people put out of work and they are angry with this bot? >> they saw a robot walking down the street and it is one of those teenagers. >> i think it could ...