"Pumpkin eater!"
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.
I woulda smashed a chair into the robot and challenged it to a duel outside.
Outlaw robot never heard of Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Unless the robot used a phaser.
Regards,
Both players are entitled to touch and adjust the position of any piece on the board at any time - provided they simultaneously say, "J'adoube" (= "I adjust").
Regards,
Blame the victim...no different from Hollywood covering for Weinstein.
"Pumpkin eater!"
Then you must have programmed the robot...
Should have just upended the chess board if he was losing.
Maybe the AI had a severe anger management problem.
Big Bang Theory - Howard and his robot ‘friend’....
https://youtu.be/_k0bzMWFNls?t=75
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