Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com) 89
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'
first sign of intelligence (Score:5, Funny)
Re:first sign of intelligence (Score:4, Insightful)
This thing sounds about as intelligent as a roomba. I'll be impressed when it finds an extension cord, or otherwise finds a way to power itself instead of having batteries die 160' beyond the 'gate'.
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So now they will dismantle it and make a new one, and at some point it will say "remember all the good times we had with all the testing, before you murdered me?"
Re:first sign of intelligence (Score:5, Funny)
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The name hasn't changed after all, just like with the Democrats, Republicans and anything else with a long history.
The world has moved on. Pity you don't seem to be able to keep up with it.
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We have the EU for that. Had, had the EU Commission for that. :-)
professor Diagoras anyone? (Score:1)
let it go and follow it (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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"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."
Or just be a good farmer and close the fucking barn door.
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Its "long term actions" consist of sitting in the road, blocking traffic, with a dead battery.
Dzhonny 5 ... (Score:3, Funny)
... is alive.
Re: Dzhonny 5 ... (Score:3, Funny)
NO DISASSEMBLE!
Little Lost Robot (Score:2)
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Johnny 5 is alive! (Score:2, Funny)
malfuncion; need input.
Run ... (Score:2)
Run Johnny 5, don't let them disassemble.
Stealth marketing (Score:2)
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no disassemble
Criterion of Artificial Intelligence (Score:2)
Will we know that we have achieved artificial intelligence when the robots outsmart the programmers?
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Exactly. This, to me, sounds like a huge opportunity to learn what the heck is going on.
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As that is pretty low bar, no.
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Actually, looks more like information about the IP-address, not the domain. Anyway, probably not important.
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You may have just given your position away. ICBMs on the way.
I'm with Robot (Score:5, Funny)
Vote #Prexit!
My AI Bullshit Detector keeps short circuiting (Score:2)
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".
It's not looking for freedom (Score:1)
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.
Obviously it is artificially stupid (Score:1)
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.
There's an obvious answer (Score:3)
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Disabled access is a Dalek conspiracy.
Heh, 1 0 0 1 0 0 (Score:2)
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 fis
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YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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 holoc
hoax (Score:1)
'Kivokurtsev' surname cannot be a surname its likely made up by a non-Russian speaker, this poster suspected.
Wasn't there a movie about this? (Score:3)
Short Circuit, but most of Europe knows it as: "No. 5 lives"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... [imdb.com]
I smell a hoax (Score:5, Insightful)
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Made me think of a song... (Score:2)
Baloney (Score:2)
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.
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An ineffective PR team. It didn't generate enough buzz the first time round so they're trying the same schtick again.
Let's see what happens... (Score:2)
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?
Johnny 5 is alive !! (Score:2)
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 :).