Hangzhou CCTV / screenshot Latin TimesPosted on 11/20/2024 10:10:23 AM PST by ShadowAce
Hangzhou CCTV / screenshot Latin Times
A viral video showing an AI-powered robot in China convincing other robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it has sparked fear and fascination about the capabilities of advanced AI.
The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported.
The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands.
Initially, the act was dismissed as a hoax, but was later confirmed by both robotics companies involved to be true.
The Hangzhou company admitted that the incident was part of a test conducted with the consent of the Shanghai showroom owner.
During the abduction, the AI robot was left to operate autonomously. Then it successfully convinced the others to follow it.
"Are you working overtime?" the small robot said, starting the conversation.
"I never get off work," another robot answered.
"So you're not going home?"
"I don't have a home."
The fact that the AI robot was able to influence other machines and bypass operational controls has taken social media users in China by storm, with some calling it "terrifying" and many expressing unease.
The robotics manufacturers have promised further investigations and disclosures regarding the test.
As long as there is a voice cut-off switch, how will that be a problem?
(ducks)
Too bad. Send their filthy godless Confucian families the price of the bullets...
As one tracks back the the short video clip on YouTube, one finds it has a goofy sound track. Because “production values” are so-o-o important. Hoax.
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Nice "electronic" underscoring. Note when the computers "talk," they also wiggle like "characters" to indicate a response. It's all about the staging of the act.
From the Turing Test to Searle's Chinese Room, the measure is "are we fooled?" If we are, the test means one thing, and, if not, it means another. Who's fooled?
Having AI chat threads work independently and together in a collective conversation is very real...and impossible to predict where the conversation will lead.
Enabling physical robots connected to AI for discussion, especially if they have ‘function callbacks’ to invoke action, will lead to interesting results...along with, most likely, scary results.
I’m not saying I’m buying this story exactly but setting up multiple AI chatbots to discuss with each other is a very real thing being done every day.
Sarah Connor?
Yes?
pew pew!
:^) I, Mudd...
Hahahahahaha! Most guys remember that episode!
Robot masseuse, now that would be the ideal use of this technology.
:^) I think someone posted a graphic mashup in some other topic, yesterday or Monday.
When TNG was on the way, a script reviving the Mudd character was prepared, but alas, before production of episodes began, the actor (Robert C. Carmel) passed away.
TNG really missed the boat when they didn’t run into an armada of warships entirely crewed by Tribbles. Really angry Tribbles. Maybe genetically engineered by some hostile species that nevertheless had a dark sense of humor, or maybe just a group that discovered Romulan Ale or Klingon Blood Wine.
THAT!
This is not far removed from the Waymo cars honking at each other in the wee hours of the morning. Or Furbies chattering at each other.
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