Korean civil servant robot commits suicide!

[MT]

Your daily dose of Orwell 1984.

[MK14]

Anyone please correct me.

But it seems to be a click-bait YouTube video, from a rather suspicious news source channel.

Quick Summary:
Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.
Falls down the stair way and breaks itself.

Hence click bait (like), so called, news-channel article(s), about this non-story (in my opinion).

Unless I've been sleeping too long and artificially alive/thinking robots, have been invented already?

[ataradov]

Yes. It is a nonsense clickbait story. It committed suicide no more than my electric shaver committed suicide last week.

Poorly designed or maintained piece of technology malfunctioned. But you can't make a viral video of this.

[coppice]

Yes. It is a nonsense clickbait story. It committed suicide no more than my electric shaver committed suicide last week.

An electric shaver once cut my throat (the foil split) so these machines are capable of lethal violence. There's no telling if they might turn it on themselves.

[schmitt trigger]

If you enjoy witnessing “Robots” committing suicide, and I am using a wide latitude here, one can always watch Roombas falling from stairs.

https://youtu.be/HYnGqZM45VM?si=D30QuGezBtlW2hlJ

[SiliconWizard]

Yes. It is a nonsense clickbait story. It committed suicide no more than my electric shaver committed suicide last week.

True, but if said robot hosts some "AI" and is claimed (by its maker) to be "sentient", then we may as well end up saying that a robot failing from purely technical reasons is committing "suicide". It's all about the words.

[newbrain]

Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.

Should have taken inspiration from Daleks.

[BarrowBoy]

Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.

Should have taken inspiration from Daleks.

Then they need to make him/her (unsure of gender of said Dalek), a bit quicker getting a shot away

[Retep]

[coppice]

(Attachment Link)

Are you sure? It looks like that guy has been framed.

[MK14]

Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.

Should have taken inspiration from Daleks.

In my head, I imagine the robot, fell down the stairs, like the following, relatively viral video.  In which I think the people involved were not badly hurt.

[BarrowBoy]

Was I wrong too laugh uncontrollably...Gold

[MT]

Anyone please correct me.

But it seems to be a click-bait YouTube video, from a rather suspicious news source channel.
Quick Summary:
Poorly designed robot, not appropriately designed to handle stairs.
Falls down the stair way and breaks itself.
Hence click bait (like), so called, news-channel article(s), about this non-story (in my opinion).
Unless I've been sleeping too long and artificially alive/thinking robots, have been invented already?

Palki is OK she used to work for Wion but was sexually harassed so she quit.
https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/
""The robot was built by a California-based startup called Bear Robotics.""

[MK14]

Palki is OK she used to work for Wion but was sexually harassed so she quit.
https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/
""The robot was built by a California-based startup called Bear Robotics.""

The real cause (if they determine it, successfully), is likely to just be some combination of sensor or other failures/faults and/or software malfunctions and/or other factors, such as slippery floor etc.

The fact it seems it was reportedly 'going round in circles', before the incident.  Perhaps shows that it was already, malfunctioning, confused or in a bad loop or something, then things went even more awry and it fell to its destruction.

From here (link supplied by yourself):
https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/

Some staff reported that they saw the robot circling in one spot just a little while before the incident took place.

Which sounds like some kind of hardware/software malfunction that just took a turn for the worse.

[jonovid]

I take this is the comedic post a video thread about autonomous robotic failures. 

[MK14]

Was I wrong too laugh uncontrollably...Gold

That's exactly what happened to me, when I first watched it, quite some time ago.
I also felt, exactly the same.  Especially as I was worried the people in the video, may have been injured, which would not be a funny matter.

The robot creators/owners etc, should have ideally better protected their robot, from harm and/or possibly injuring others, in that way.

[Smokey]

I've had plenty of electronics commit "engineer assisted suicide"

[coppercone2]

I think they should make a under ground virus research facility that is secured by a advanced AI in control of everything. It should work.

[Kim Christensen]

The robot creators/owners etc, should have ideally better protected their robot, from harm and/or possibly injuring others, in that way.

Looks like that robot broke both the 1st and 3rd Asimov law of robots at the same time.   

[MK14]

The robot creators/owners etc, should have ideally better protected their robot, from harm and/or possibly injuring others, in that way.

Looks like that robot broke both the 1st and 3rd Asimov law of robots at the same time.   

But on the other hand, it was at least 100% observant/accurate, on obeying all the laws of Physics.   

[nonlinearschool]

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Palki is OK she used to work for Wion but was sexually harassed so she quit.
https://techreport.com/news/robot-suicide-south-korea/
""The robot was built by a California-based startup called Bear Robotics.""

Yes, I recognize the Voice!
 I thought she was the anchor for WION. What a loss for WION

[SiliconWizard]

I think they should make a under ground virus research facility that is secured by a advanced AI in control of everything. It should work.

Well, if it works as well as current virus research, and AI, do, then surely combining the two is going to do wonders.

[coppercone2]

I have a conceptual schematic of the facility, I think it would do well under San Francisco, with easy access to local expertise with AI.


Access is provided by a tunnel, which could be the first real project for "The Boring Company"


The idea is that eventually employees can drive directly to work with private tunnel access to lower congestion.