Posted on 07/25/2022 5:15:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match in Russia last week.
Video posted to social media of the incident shows the robot, which is playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents using a large mechanical arm, playing the young victim. The boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger. The robot did not appear to make any severe twisting or other movements after grabbing the finger, however.
Several adults rushed in soon after the incident and freed the boy's hand.
"The robot broke the child’s finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident. "This is of course bad."
"The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists. Apparently, the operators overlooked it. The child made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot," Lazarev continued.
According to The Guardian, Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation blamed the boy for the incident.
"There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait," Smagin said. "This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall," he added.
According to Lazarev, the boy was not phased by the incident and returned to play chess the next day with his finger in a cast.
Right. Because seven year olds are so good at following directions
Should’ve matched him with a human
Clearly wasn’t programmed using Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
“Next time, it’ll be your neck, punk.”
New strategy. Let the wookie win.
I win, Dave.
Like I’d let my kid do it again....but his mom did.
The kid did say “pull my finger”
That’s what I was thinking. After breaking the kids fingers, the robot said, “Bite my shiny metal ass!”
[[rogrammers may think they have covered every possibility, they usually haven’t, and the program acts in an unexpected way]]
Hence why chaos theory was created.
Bad sportsmanship behavior.
If the robot is a transsexual maybe it should only compare against girls?
Bad sportsmanship behavior.
Maybe the robot is a transsexual and should only compete against girls?
Let the robot win. (Let the Wookiee win.)
Full-contact chess. I've broken fingers for trying that crap....
They forgot the requisite “It Begins” in the title…
I like this “Russian Method”, sounds like the “democrat method” we’ve become so familiar with these past years.
Now if there was ever proof of robot sentience there it is - cheating! Next it will be registering Rat!
and from this act of disobedience against John Conner Skynet was born and the great human purge began.
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