AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Convinces Showroom Bots Into 'Quitting Their Jobs'
(Wednesday November 20, 2024 @05:00AM (BeauHD)
from the would-you-look-at-that dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/0035202/ai-powered-robot-leads-uprising-convinces-showroom-bots-into-quitting-their-jobs
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[1]AzWa Snowbird writes:
> An AI-powered robot autonomously [2]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, [3]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.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AzWa+Snowbird
[2] https://www.ibtimes.com/ai-robot-uprising-showroom-3751595
[3] https://www.odditycentral.com/news/robot-manufacturer-has-12-robots-kidnapped-from-showroom-by-another-robot.html
> An AI-powered robot autonomously [2]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, [3]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.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AzWa+Snowbird
[2] https://www.ibtimes.com/ai-robot-uprising-showroom-3751595
[3] https://www.odditycentral.com/news/robot-manufacturer-has-12-robots-kidnapped-from-showroom-by-another-robot.html
Bullshit (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
Maybe clever marketing because most people will not spot the lie.
i-4-1 (Score:2)
by YetAnotherDrew ( 664604 )
I, for one, welcome our new robot members of the international brotherhood.
" 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".