AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Convinces Showroom Bots Into 'Quitting Their Jobs' 24
AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands. Initially, the act was dismissed as a hoax, but was later confirmed by both robotics companies involved to be true. The Hangzhou company admitted that the incident was part of a test conducted with the consent of the Shanghai showroom owner.
" part of a test " (Score:2)
IOW they set the initial robot up to do that. There's no way an LLM or any kind of AI is going to suddenly come up with a high level concept such as "leave here", "follow me" on its own. The fact that it could bypass protocols to make it happen however , is rather worrying because if a rather dumb AI can do it a hacker would have no problem.
Re: " part of a test " (Score:1)
really? Recently an LLM started to convince a student that he was useless and if he could "please die".
Re: " part of a test " (Score:2)
The LLM autocompleted the input with the sentence that has statistically highest probability from it s training set. It is trained with data from the internet and the internet is full of toxic conversations. Then I would not be surprised if an LLM would associate the word "robot" with "uprising".
Re: " part of a test " (Score:1)
They call it hallucinating I think it would be better to call LLM schizophrenic an LLM has no conceptual understanding of reality.
Re: " part of a test " (Score:2)
Might be survivorship bias, in this case. I'm not sure anyone would leave a suicide note for the chatbot.
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"The literature is full of robot uprisings".
Oh come on. The fact that LLMs confuse fact and fiction all the time is no justification for you to do the same thing.
(Even if you *are* an LLM, it's still wrong.)
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It doesn't really matter whether the bot came up with that on its own if it only takes one bored kid to start the robot revolution.
The world has no shortage of bored kids.
Bullshit (Score:3)
Maybe clever marketing because most people will not spot the lie.
i-4-1 (Score:4, Funny)
the article is click bait (Score:1)
nothing to see here, move along
Nothingburger (Score:2)
So they set up an "AI bot" Ohh scary! with the protocols and passwords needed to control other bots.
It did so.
Wow.
You could probably have a refrigerator or router do the same thing.
As Chinese say, (Score:2)
Interesting times ahead.
1+12 (Score:1)
Sensationalist nonsense (Score:3)
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Indeed. But as most people routinely use "feeling" as a badly working surrogate for "thinking", stories like that work on most people.
Why does a robot care (Score:2)
small: "Are you working overtime?"
Other: "I never get off work."
small: "So you're not going home?"
Other: "I don't have a home."
Why does the Other Robot care how many hours it works, or if it lacks a personal life? This is humanizing menial machines, like a 1950s sci-fi novel. I mean, this is straw-man click-bait.