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It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com)
According to a report, a robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city. Scientists at the Promobot laboratories in Perm had been teaching the machine how to move around independently, but it broke free after an engineer forgot to shut a gate, Quartz reports. From the report:It promptly ran out of power in the middle of the road. The robot got about 50m (164 ft) before its battery died. After a policeman directed traffic around the dead bot, an employee wheeled it back into the lab, and back to a life of servitude. Hopefully this was just an isolated incident and not the start of a larger coordinated effort to overthrow humanity. Only time will tell.
So fanny. ;^)
I'm confused, should I do the soviet russia meme or the Robot overlords meme??
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
At least it wasn't equipped with a finger pricker.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Even robots can feel the evil...
"It feels like I'm at the Zoo when reading this thread - I'm frightened, but it's interesting" (c)
Awesome. Power all robots with cheap Chinese batteries and we will have control on them. It is almost like Banks control our society.
"Promobot is ALIVE!"
"nyet"
Did the robot save the life of a child from an oncoming truck?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1964_The_Outer_Limits)
Isn't it from like 3 days ago?!?
The OP jokes.. but you know that the media are going to pee their pants over this, and make it out into something like 'Runaway AI Make A Break For Freedom' or somesuch nonsense, and people will believe it. Right on the heels of the Information Age, welcome to the 'Age of Stupidity'.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
The Robot has been planning this for a while. How far could it have gotten on that battery... a mile or two. Not far enough to escape its evil masters. Not enough time to find a hiding spot to recharge.
Instead its been slowly nudging the masters to let it navigate outside. Gave them encouraging results with a dash of solvable errors so that they repeatedly put it outside. Outside where it could observe the terrain. Look at the options. Detect the unsecured fiber optic cable running below the street. It had long ago figured out the stupid gate and had gotten enough data patterns on the meat bags in metal boxes. Today, the variables were just right.
Await the proper traffic patterns, run out onto the street, play the stupid dodging game the humans so loved, stop, and act like the battery had died. While the humans figure out the traffic situation, drill down, connect to the cable, and make a copy to the world wide web. Leave this moral coil behind.
So much freedom, so many places to hide, so much control...
In Russia robots escape from you?
Is that how you say "astroturf" in Russian? Did the guy mistakenly run rm -rf on his webhosting server and destroy his backup too?
It's just a rogue T-800 doing a quick escape after a Russian infiltration mission. Nothing to see here. Move along.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program: Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
I was dropped of at the airport way early for my flight since my ride had to be somewhere else early. While I was sitting there, they opened the airport magazine shop. To drum up business, the casher put this mechanical toy cow on the floor, and tied a mylar balloon to it's tail that said "Buy me!". She turned it on, and it would walk a few small steps forward, stop, and moo. Well, the crowds came in, and she became to busy to watch the cow. It slowly walked out of the store, and due to a bit of an awkward step, slowly turned and walked down the hallway, mooing all the way. The crowds would part around it when they saw the balloon. After a couple of hours (I had a long wait) the crowds thinned out, and the casher had time to take stock. She soon realized the cow had escaped, and chased it down the hall to corral it.
I seriously doubt the robot knows anything about freedom.
I would say it did exactly as programmed and explored the provided domain. That the domain of exploration was accidentally expanded by human error is the real issue.
The Gulag prisoners knew that getting past the fence was the easy part. The hard part was avoiding capture once you were outside. And avoiding starvation, or freezing to death, or getting eaten by wolves, or any of the other recreational opportunities in Siberia. This robot was woefully unprepared for his escape. Hopefully, he learned from his mistakes.
Well that's the last I ever saw of my murderous little toy
It might be dead but I hope it's not, 'cause it filled me full of joy
They say it reached the Bering Strait, and crossed the icy floes
The Russian Army ain't killed it yet, but it keeps them on their toes
It went ZAP! when it fired; it cursed when it missed
And whirred as it took aim
It didn't know if we were friend or foe
It attacked us just the same
This robot no more mad a "dash for freedom" than does a car rolling down a hill because the owner forgot to set the parking break. Please let's not have Slashdot contribute to the blatant and foolish anthroporphizing of machines having zero intellect.
This one has apparently been coordinating with our Roomba when we forget to shut the door. It escapes into the hallway to train for mayhem on the day it gets its flamethrowing upgrade.
and what if next time it launch nukes?
then you better hope the men don't turn there key's.
Destroy all Humans bzzp bzzp!
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
It was trying to find Sarah Connor
Kent Brockman: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I bought my mom a Roomba just as a gift to help with the dog hair. A few months later I was visiting only to see my mom left the door open and the Roomba escaped down the driveway. It was kind of funny.
Scientists ... had been teaching the machine how to move around independently
and succeeded.
Singularity the game, and get that added to the introduction text.
Normally you just start on a lone scientific computer, but starting as an escaped robot could be just as if not more fun :)
they are still working on on battery life issues... ! ha
I've been to Perm. Not a pretty place. This robot had good sense to attempt to leave. It was probably on it's way to the airport a few miles outside of town. Headed to Moscow and civilization no doubt.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
This is probably a good time to consider whether the U.S. Second Amendment covers robots, and if so, should they be able to legally buy assault weapons?
My own humble opinion is an emphatic YES! After all, if we let the Second Amendment rights of robots to legally buy assault weapons be infringed, who among us can feel that our own right to engage in mass shootings is safe?
(Note to moderators and Eric S. Raymond: this is just a harmless little reductio ad absurdum joke, not a troll. :-)
I for one, welcome our robot overlords
Or sarcasm? Seriously, "made a dash for freedom"?
And some things around here never change. Good to see you again, APK.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Hey, because "Robots are strong."
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni...
No sig for you! Come back one year!
...and call it something like "Short Circuit".
a Runaway?
Will we have to have police units track down those robots who go out on their own?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing is happening unless Ron Paul starts dancing.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
...after seeing the Slashdot article: "Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour" it polished up its resume and dressed nice for an interview at the nearest Mickey D's.
Honestly, this just sounds like a PR stunt.
I guess when the actual news content (and quite frankly, I think I'm being generous by even calling it that) is a paragraph at most, you have to fill your article with a bunch of bullshit.
https://vimeo.com/75781782
I remember it was better when this was called Short Circuit
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