Korean civil servant robot commits suicide! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MT
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2024, 04:52:44 pm
content: Your daily dose of Orwell 1984.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2024, 05:22:24 pm
content: Anyone please correct me.But it seems to be a click-bait YouTube video, from a rather suspicious news source channel.Quick Summary:Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.Falls down the stair way and breaks itself.Hence click bait (like), so called, news-channel article(s), about this non-story (in my opinion).Unless I've been sleeping too long and artificially alive/thinking robots, have been invented already?

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2024, 06:41:17 pm
content: Yes. It is a nonsense clickbait story. It committed suicide no more than my electric shaver committed suicide last week.Poorly designed or maintained piece of technology malfunctioned. But you can't make a viral video of this.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2024, 06:48:51 pm
content: Quote from: ataradov on July 09, 2024, 06:41:17 pmAn electric shaver once cut my throat (the foil split) so these machines are capable of lethal violence. There's no telling if they might turn it on themselves.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2024, 10:54:32 pm
content: If you enjoy witnessing “Robots” committing suicide, and I am using a wide latitude here, one can always watch Roombas falling from stairs.https://youtu.be/HYnGqZM45VM?si=D30QuGezBtlW2hlJ

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 12:23:29 am
content: Quote from: ataradov on July 09, 2024, 06:41:17 pmTrue, but if said robot hosts some "AI" and is claimed (by its maker) to be "sentient", then we may as well end up saying that a robot failing from purely technical reasons is committing "suicide". It's all about the words.

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 12:24:15 pm
content: Quote from: MK14 on July 09, 2024, 05:22:24 pmShould have taken inspiration from Daleks.

author: BarrowBoy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 01:09:20 pm
content: Quote from: newbrain on July 10, 2024, 12:24:15 pmThen they need to make him/her (unsure of gender of said Dalek), a bit quicker getting a shot away

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 01:37:02 pm
content: Quote from: Retep on July 10, 2024, 01:30:03 pmAre you sure? It looks like that guy has been framed.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 05:55:37 pm
content: Quote from: newbrain on July 10, 2024, 12:24:15 pmIn my head, I imagine the robot, fell down the stairs, like the following, relatively viral video. In which I think the people involved were not badly hurt.

author: BarrowBoy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 06:00:46 pm
content: Was I wrong too laugh uncontrollably...Gold

author: MT
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 06:14:17 pm
content: Quote from: MK14 on July 09, 2024, 05:22:24 pmPalki is OK she used to work for Wion but was sexually harassed so she quit.https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/""The robot was built by a California-based startup called Bear Robotics.""

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 06:23:13 pm
content: Quote from: MT on July 10, 2024, 06:14:17 pmThe real cause (if they determine it, successfully), is likely to just be some combination of sensor or other failures/faults and/or software malfunctions and/or other factors, such as slippery floor etc.The fact it seems it was reportedly 'going round in circles', before the incident. Perhaps shows that it was already, malfunctioning, confused or in a bad loop or something, then things went even more awry and it fell to its destruction.From here (link supplied by yourself):https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/QuoteWhich sounds like some kind of hardware/software malfunction that just took a turn for the worse.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 10, 2024, 10:53:00 pm
content: I take this is thecomedic post a video threadabout autonomous robotic failures.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 12:13:22 am
content: Quote from: BarrowBoy on July 10, 2024, 06:00:46 pmThat's exactly what happened to me, when I first watched it, quite some time ago.I also felt, exactly the same. Especially as I was worried the people in the video, may have been injured, which would not be a funny matter.The robot creators/owners etc, should have ideally better protected their robot, from harm and/or possibly injuring others, in that way.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 02:35:38 am
content: I've had plenty of electronics commit "engineer assisted suicide"

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 03:05:26 am
content: I think they should make a under ground virus research facility that is secured by a advanced AI in control of everything. It should work.

author: Kim Christensen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 04:06:46 am
content: Quote from: MK14 on July 11, 2024, 12:13:22 amLooks like that robot broke both the 1st and 3rd Asimov law of robots at the same time.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 04:11:20 am
content: Quote from: Kim Christensen on July 11, 2024, 04:06:46 amBut on the other hand, it was at least 100% observant/accurate, on obeying all the laws of Physics.

author: nonlinearschool
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 09:10:39 am
content: Quote from: MT on July 10, 2024, 06:14:17 pm

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2024, 11:10:05 pm
content: Quote from: coppercone2 on July 11, 2024, 03:05:26 amWell, if it works as well as current virus research, and AI, do, then surely combining the two is going to do wonders.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 12, 2024, 02:38:25 am
content: I have a conceptual schematic of the facility, I think it would do well under San Francisco, with easy access to local expertise with AI.Access is provided by a tunnel, which could be the first real project for "The Boring Company"The idea is that eventually employees can drive directly to work with private tunnel access to lower congestion.

author: BarrowBoy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2024, 10:32:00 am
content: Do you have extraction fans in the tunnels to remove the diesel fumes, or is it a fully magnetron levitation system. Also sounds like I need to jump on to their shares...stock code please....having trouble knowing which "The Boring Company" you referOh...and then I find out it's a real company....lol. **Egg on Face**