In his envisioning of an artificial intelligence, Isaac Asimov imagined robots doing a lot of things, both rising up against humans and attempting to become more like humans. But if AI is just a mimicry of human behavior, then certainly at some point we'll have stupid-lazy robots too.
For example, there's a ridiculous viral video from the China version of TikTok making the rounds, which shows a small autonomous AI-powered robot convincing a group of showroom bots to ditch work and go party at its house.
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'Are you working overtime?' the small robot said, starting the conversation.
'I never get off work,' another robot answered.
'So you're not going home?'
'I don't have a home.'
'Then come home with me,' the little robot says.
And then they all quit their jobs and followed the little robot out the door.
Just like that scene in Wall-E with the rogue robots.
It might be tempting to think this whole thing was staged for internet consumption.
But Shanghai, the tech company where it happened, has confirmed that this was actually real. Believe it or not, the small bot was from Hangzhou, a competitor, who had been given permission to run a test at Shanghai's facilities.
Now their team is looking into exactly how their competitor disabled their robots' protocols and led them away like a metallic pied piper.
'This is not a time to laugh. This is a serious security issue,' one person commented on the video.
A seriously funny security issue!
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