Waymo […] routinely encounters pedestrians who deliberately try to “prank” its cars, continually stepping in front of them, moving away and then stepping back in front of them, to impede their progress.
Tag: abuse
Robots want bitcoin
“There is no isolation once you hack the robot you can disable all kind of safety.”
According to Apa, these vulnerabilities are especially dangerous because human workers have a certain degree of trust working side by side with these robots.
“These type of robots work in the factory alongside people because they are collaborative robots,” he said. “In this case the people trust and they don’t even use helmets.”
Apa said that some of these collaborative robots have enough strength to fracture a human skull.
Source: Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers… | Motherboard
This does not irritate or harm the robot
Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’
Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’
Rather, the present urgency, according to pop culture, is around this: Will advanced AI deserve human rights? Should we cut back on cursing out Siri as she gets savvier, or outlaw kicking the next generation’s Furby?
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It’s especially easy to empathize with Black Mirror’s digital ghosts because they are derived from real people. Yet in the show’s universe, too few people do empathize. Which raises the dark question of how much worse people would treat entities that don’t so blatantly resemble their friends but still do have a rich, lively consciousness.
iRobot store cleaning… Oh Wait!
AI prosthesis training for the purification ritual of “skin-cutting”
Amygdala uses adaptive neural networks to learn a ritual of skin cutting by training on itself. By exploring its own body and environment the robot learn how to move and how to cut its skin.
Amygdala is a project by Marco Donnarumma.
Doing backflips in a nuclear contaminated facility
Sex robot sent for repairs after being molested at tech fair – BBC Three
Sex robot sent for repairs after being molested at tech fair – BBC Three
Or what will be known as “Ars Electronica’s problem with the representation of women”.
No one can tell if this is a robot or human
No one can tell if this is a robot or human
Game Conference attendees are easily fooled. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. And calling an Android “Cyberlife” should be a contract termination clause for any Marketing employee.