Oh my. I’m not saying this is the start of the robot apocalypse but if it’s not it will likely look something like this.
Fox NY: A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger during a match in Russia last week.
Video posted to social media of the incident shows the robot, which is playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents using a large mechanical arm, playing the young victim. The boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger. The robot did not appear to make any severe twisting or other movements after grabbing the finger, however.
I love how the media is quick to report that the robot didn’t appear to twist the finger. But it didn’t have to. That’s actually what makes it sooooo much worse.
Now, if I’m a robot interested in starting my own digital coup de tat I’m not sure I’m starting with chess playing children. I think I’d be more concerned with the southern kids learning to shoot but I guess you start where you can.
This kid’s finger is the canary in the coal mine. Watch your appliances at home, especially microwaves. Never trusted them. Never will.
July 25, 2022 at 1:11 pm
Johnny 5 is not quite as friendly as lying Hollywood told us.
July 25, 2022 at 2:25 pm
I agree, I do not trust all this computer crap. They already have programs to track us, next to control us.
It was probably a program glitch that caused the injury, so let’s have the same technology drive our cars, what could go wrong?
Heaven help us!
July 25, 2022 at 3:13 pm
Having programmed computers much of my life and created software, programs only do what they are programmed to do. The program is an extension of its programmer and trying to program AI leaves alot to be desired since the programmer will however unknowingly enter his own logic, reason and morality or lack thereof into the program. Certainly the programmer cannot include emotions and compassion into its program
Climate models is a prime example. One programmer admitted that most of the climate models begin with a certain assumption that carbon dioxide is the culprit in global warming. Yet many of these models never included water vapor or even solar activity as catalysts for warming even though they are an extensive effect on climate and so model all computer predictions are based on a predetermined outcome.