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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. >> it's the first global robotics olympia yet for many of these competitors, and they've had months to prepare. but not the six girls from afghanistan. their robot kits didn't 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 wondered how such a robot could walk and talk. now i build my own robots.

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 asked one member why she likes robotics. >> she's always robot walking, and wondered how this robot is...

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. >> it's the first global robotics olympia yet for many of these competitors, and they've had months to prepare. but not the six girls from afghanistan. their robot kits didn't 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 wondered how such a robot could walk and talk. now i build my own robots.

Powerful super computer. >> ai is more advanced than people realize and the pace of progress is greater than people realize. it's fairly obvious if you saw a robot walking around and talking and behaving like a person, what's that? that would be really obvious. what's not obvious is a huge data bank with intelligence that's 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 super computer. >> why do we need a super computer? >> the super computers that we have today are ...

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 can't be done on smaller computers. we need more powerful computers to address all of the science we want to ...