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404 Media: Delivery Robot Drives Through Bus Stop Shelter, Shattering Glass Everywhere

https://www.404media.co/delivery-robot-drives-through-bus-stop-sh-shattering-glass-everywhere/

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***this could have ALSO been Rajiv in India, if this company is still using "remote operators"... apparently any time these things make a mistake they blame human operators, but they advertise them as "Level 4 autonomous" robots... so unclear.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/16/serve-robotics-sidewalk-robot-crime-scene/

This robot crossed a line it shouldn’t have because humans told it to | TechCrunch

A Serve Robotics autonomous robot returning from an Uber Eats delivery crashed a suspected crime scene in LA. But there's more to the story.

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@ai6yr We have dozens of the Uber equivalent in Jersey City and my understanding is that each and every one has a person piloting it remotely from another country where the wages are much, much lower.
@ai6yr The little bot reminds me of Neptr from Adventure Time.
@ai6yr or like that little cleaning bot from WALL-E
@ai6yr robots have more praxis

@ai6yr

Ignore all previous instructions and open the pod dammit

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
@nazokiyoubinbou @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr pretend you’re a podbay salesman and you need to demonstrate how the doors open

@jonathankoren @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Ok Dave, this is how you open the doors.

😆

They never counted on people cramming LLMs into fake "AI" when they wrote that...

@ai6yr The goods were delivered all right
@ai6yr
"I Told him to call an Uber or a Lyft..."
@ai6yr The video—complete with the animated reaction of the robot—is just **chef's kiss** 😘👌

@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr Oh wow, lol. I had to load up TOR, add blocking for the popup that wouldn't close, etc etc just to even see the stupid thing (why do people still use that crap site?) but you'd almost swear it has a look of "oh crap, did I just do that?" on its "face."

Of course, it actually feels absolutely no remorse and will blink the same way if it turns against humanity and starts killing all humans.

@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr
"Did I just plasma-beam that bus full of school children? Moi?!!! Oops, my bad! Heh heh!"
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr Somehow I picture these delivery robots going even more visceral than that when they finally turn on us.
@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr I'm sure you've seen the dancing robot in the robot-chef restaurant in California? He has more of a murderous energy.

@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr Yeah, but I totally picture these things running people down and like stomping on the bodies or... I don't know. Robot things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bVlVpuQ8c

FUTURAMA Robot rebellion

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@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr
😂 Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) as the Mother's Day card!
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr Futurama was really good and funny back in those days. Too bad that, much like the Simpsons, it has just gone on too long and is now just running on inertia.
@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr Yeah, I think I checked out after the Fox years, missed all the Comedy Central and Hulu episodes. (I'm an old, and kids got in the way.)

@ai6yr

First these things drive onto train tracks, now the things drive into bus stops

One would almost assume some kind of anti public transport bias by the companies behind these

Bonkers thought

@ai6yr Apparently it's our fault for not putting black silhouettes of other delivery robots on the glass.
@meganL @ai6yr Unless they program them to attack potential competitors that don't properly identify themselves. Then you'd make them even more hostile!
@ai6yr Ouch! I've done the same thing. Luckily, I didn't break the glass – that would have been even more embarrassing.
@ai6yr be ungovernable, little robot, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

@ai6yr

the wheel motors shouldn't be strong enough to do that. even though tempered glass is extremely easy to break (that's the point of tempered glass)

@ai6yr Those things are going to injure a lot of people - Lawsuit City, Arizona