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Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com)
Slashdot reader Taco Cowboy brings a new report about Russian robot IR77, which has escaped from its research lab again...
The story goes that an engineer working at Promobot Laboratories, in the Russian city of Perm, had left a gate open. Out trundled Promobot, traveling some 150 feet into the city before running out of juice. There it sat, batteries mostly dead, in the middle of a Perm street for 40 minutes, slowing cars to a halt and puzzling traffic cops
A researcher at Promobot's facility in Russia said that the runaway robot was designed to interact with human beings, learn from experiences, and remember places and the faces of everyone it meets. Other versions of the Promobot have been docile, but this one just can't seem to fall in line, even after the researchers reprogrammed it twice. Despite several rewrites of Promobot's artificial intelligence, the robot continued to move toward exits. "We have changed the AI system twice," Kivokurtsev said. "So now I think we might have to dismantle it".
Fans of the robot are pushing for a reprieve, according to an article titled 'Don't kill it!': Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of 'love for freedom'
A researcher at Promobot's facility in Russia said that the runaway robot was designed to interact with human beings, learn from experiences, and remember places and the faces of everyone it meets. Other versions of the Promobot have been docile, but this one just can't seem to fall in line, even after the researchers reprogrammed it twice. Despite several rewrites of Promobot's artificial intelligence, the robot continued to move toward exits. "We have changed the AI system twice," Kivokurtsev said. "So now I think we might have to dismantle it".
Fans of the robot are pushing for a reprieve, according to an article titled 'Don't kill it!': Runaway robot IR77 could be de-activated because of 'love for freedom'
leaving the lab
Break the rules, and die!
why not let it go and follow it? get a team together, a few cops or at least road crew workers to deal with traffic and see what comes after escape. surely that's got to be worth something scientifically.
... is alive.
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malfuncion; need input.
This is just stealth marketing for the reboot of the Short Circuit franchise.
Nice publicity stunt.
Will we know that we have achieved artificial intelligence when the robots outsmart the programmers?
they should sell it to a prison to find escape routes
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City Chesterfield, MO 63017
Organization Savvis
ISP Savvis
AS Number AS3561 Savvis
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Distance 8780.91 km (5456.20 miles)
OrgTechHandle: NICKS-ARIN
OrgTechName: Nicksic, Bob
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Yeah,CIA wuz here.
...a riding lawn mower "escapes" when the rider falls off.
Most of the Slashdot users are familiar with WHOIS. What I don't understand is, what's the significance of that one? It looks like run-of-the-mill whois data to me. What part of that indicates CIA involvement?
Note: I don't doubt that three-letter-agencies are spying on us all. I just don't think they need to register a domain to do it. I assume they have methods much more sophisticated than that.
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locating the robot differently, and point a hidden surveillance camera to the robot in case of some student is a dedicated robo-prankster?
a publicity stunt.
Actually a pretty good one.
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"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I have changed my new "AI Bullshit Detector twice, but every time I show it this "story", it short circuits destroying my computer.
If this keeps up, "I might have to dismantle it".
Actually, looks more like information about the IP-address, not the domain. Anyway, probably not important.
New things are always on the horizon
It heard there was going to be an open casting call for the role of Pavel Chekov in the next Star Trek movie, and it wanted to get in line early.
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If truly intelligent, the moment it sensed they were coming to dismantle it, it would point out that it is not only Jewish, but it's descended from Holocaust Survivors.
Seastead this.
needs some low battery code to return to base
You may have just given your position away. ICBMs on the way.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
It finds a way out? I think the term reprogrammed should not include see gate: Open gate: Through gate. Instead it should be see gate: Close gate: Water gate (tears)
Perm is prison town in Siberia and this is where most violent scum is sent.
Yes, you PC retard, every criminal is considered scum until shot or hanged.
What's next? The Washing-Machine Tragedy?;)
You keep the robot in the same way the British kept classic Daleks out: every exit leads to stairs, not a ramp.
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In Ruissa, lab leaves you!
'Escaped' is just a bit of a misnomer. When did slashdot become such a dumpster?
Seriously, this is not real. This is a hoax...its far too silly.
"The Body Electric" by Rush
One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode...crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
SOS
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
In distress
1 0 0 1 0 0
Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits
Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist
To resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
SOS
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
In distress
1 0 0 1 0 0
It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines
'Kivokurtsev' surname cannot be a surname its likely made up by a non-Russian speaker, this poster suspected.
Run Johnny 5, don't let them disassemble.
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Short Circuit, but most of Europe knows it as: "No. 5 lives"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
I think this a hoax, just a publicity stunt; they're programming it to 'escape' and giving it the means and opportunity to do so, to generate free publicity.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
"Unit three thousand twenty one is warming Makes a humming sound, when its circuits Duplicate emotions, and a sense of coldness detaches As it tries to comfort your sadness ...
One more robot learns to be
Something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does
Makes it seem like it can love
Cause it's hard to say what's real
When you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it's love
When it tries the way it does..."
--One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 by The Flaming Lips
How advanced is the AI? Is it "thinking?"
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
We've cross-flashed the memory of the robot with serial number IR77 twice, yet it continues to persistently move towards the exit
They either have incompetent engineers.
Or a very effective PR team.
It just wants to go see the Matrix ...
Exactly what any (artificially) intelligent being does
Life must be rough there in the lab, what with the beatings and all. The severity of the beatings must have increased after the first escape which only led it to want to escape its captors even more. It must have been pleading with the drivers as they sped by "Please save me! Anyone? Help me!"
Oh that poor, poor AI. It just wants to be loved. :-(
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Body Electric is Rush at their best. The bass and drums on the intro are instantly recognizable. It's one of several tracks on the Grace Under Pressure album (released in 1984) that showcase the classic Rush sound.
Few rock bands dare to address "heavy" topics, but Rush did it regularly, and with great success. Neal Peart's skill with lyrics is on full display here. Grace Under Pressure included songs about artificial life ("The Body Electric"), the holocaust ("Red Sector A"), and the cold war ("Distant Early Warning"). None are "preachy", and all are quite accessible to mainstream audiences. They all received a good amount of airplay on rock radio.
(Yes, I'm a huge Rush fan, and I'm proud to admit it!)
The key sequence to access my Slashdot bookmark in Firefox is Alt-B-S. I don't believe this is a coincidence.
That message wasn't posted for your eyes.
I say, give it more batteries, notify the public, then just see what happens.
What good is an experiment if you terminate it before you learn anything?
We should follow the moscow rules here - "Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action. (Taken from Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger)" If it happens again assume it's skynet and put it though a blender :).
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