Tag: robots

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

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.

Does he have a favourite robot? “I actually do. 64117. There’s a kind of leaderboard system that tracks each drive unit [a droid in Amazon lingo, Ed.], and I follow them all. 64117 has travelled only 164 metres the whole time it’s been here. It’s the laziest drive we’ve got. It’s got the work/life balance worked out.”

The Guardian