It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) 81
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.
Re:HAHAHA (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, Permobot overlords welcome YOU!
Re:HAHAHA (Score:4, Funny)
In soviet russia (Score:2)
I'm confused, should I do the soviet russia meme or the Robot overlords meme??
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In soviet russia the robot overloads server you!
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Both,
In mother Russia Robot Overloard welcomes you!
Well... (Score:3)
At least it wasn't equipped with a finger pricker.
Re:Well... (Score:4, Funny)
At least it wasn't equipped with a finger pricker.
No, but with a laser.
Its production number was No. 5 btw.
Rename the robot to Steve McQueen! (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Stevie McQueenface? Doesn't quite have the right ring to it.
Robo Suicide (Score:1)
Even robots can feel the evil...
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We will detect that shortcoming and develop a workaround for that, my dear Mr. Coppertop!
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So in response to your sig: really? You've lost freedom of speech? The freedom to assemble? Freedom of religion? soldiers are being hosted in your house??? exactly which rights have your lost?
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My guess is that it is the Second amendment, after all, it specifically says "shall not be infringed" yet every time you turn around, someone wants to infringe that right.
SubjectIsSubject (Score:5, Funny)
"nyet"
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Recycling the Outer Limits... (Score:2)
Did the robot save the life of a child from an oncoming truck?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1964_The_Outer_Limits) [wikipedia.org]
How is this news? (Score:2)
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Isn't it from like 3 days ago?!?
Like, maybe, dude! Far out! Old newz! Kewl!
Media: EVERYBODY PANIC!!!1! (Score:2)
Its too late (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Russian Terminator (Score:2)
In Russia robots escape from you?
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"You got a problem...you're gonna die."
Watched a robot escape once (Score:2)
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And your story sounds like about the same circumstances as the one in the story to me.
You should have sensationalized yours better. Something about a mad cow robot escaping and attempting to go on a killing spree at the airport. The TSA was unable to stop it. Only the heroic efforts of a cashier were able to avert certain disaster.
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And some things around here never change. Good to see you again, APK.
Minus the Bering Strait bit... (Score:4, Informative)
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
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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.
AC, you've failed the Turing test, again.
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Actually, a computer science undergrad disproved the Turing test when he asked a panel of AI experts "If a computer that fools a man into thinking it's a man proves the computer is as intelligent as a man, is a computer that fools a dog into thinking it's a dog as intelligent as a dog?"
Good story, but that's not what the Turing test is about. Passing the Turing test does not imply that the computer is as intelligent as a human.
Oh no, it is indeed coordinated (Score:1)
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? (Score:2)
and what if next time it launch nukes?
then you better hope the men don't turn there key's.
Number Five is Alive!! (Score:2)
Yes I would, Kent (Score:3)
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.
To put it another way... (Score:2)
Scientists ... had been teaching the machine how to move around independently
and succeeded.
I guess.. (Score:1)
Smart Robot (Score:2)
Obligatory Old Glory Insurance ad (Score:2)
Hey, because "Robots are strong."
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni... [nbc.com]
Someone should make a movie... (Score:2)
...and call it something like "Short Circuit".
Does this mean it's . . . (Score:1)
Will we have to have police units track down those robots who go out on their own [youtube.com]?
Not convinced anything is happening (Score:2)
Nothing is happening unless Ron Paul starts dancing.
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This article is trying way too hard to be cute (Score:2)
Wir sind die Roboter... (Score:1)
let this be a lesson to him (Score:1)