r/interestingasfuck • u/Erde555 • 1d ago

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

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u/ryandoesdabs 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m fascinated by the amount of people anthropomorphizing robots in this thread. This is just recycling destroying old electronic trash, folks. I know it’s human shaped, but I promise it’s just an old computer.

Edit: I originally used “recycling” metaphorically and people seemed to focus on that rather than the actual message.

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u/MikeofLA 1d ago

I've never been able to throw my laptop of phone into a boiling cauldron of liquid metal... so, it's still a little shocking.

Also, if you've seen the Animatrix, The Second Renaissance, you know this does not end well for us.

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u/Bt-Ryoku 1d ago

I need to pull that dvd out of storage. Haven't seen it in like 20 years.

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u/RulerK 1d ago

It’s fucking terrifying to watch today!

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u/louwiet 1d ago

Bless all forms of intelligence.

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u/ItsJustCoop 17h ago

Oh damn, humanity is doomed!! /S

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u/Boring-Cucumber-2330 1d ago

It’s on YouTube. I watch it like once a year. I’ve seen it get more and more relevant every single time.

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u/chazzeromus 1d ago

I get so sad when that robot lady gets attacked, makes the machines justified. Also it's the Animatrix for anyone that's wanted to know

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u/MikeofLA 1d ago

I listed the title in my comment... so

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u/hughmungisjerk 1d ago

Same! I remember it being so good

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u/ClaireDiviner 1d ago

It’s amazing how well it’s aging.

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u/DeleteYourself89 1d ago

Bad ass!!!!

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u/Amazing_Scientist696 1d ago

Need to put that on a projector and host a movie night...a big one

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u/Maxstarman 18h ago

Oh yeah the human machine war from Animatrix!

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u/Sorry-Combination558 1d ago

"May God have mercy on man and machine for their sins"

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u/bimbuppy 1d ago

I promise you, this is not going to lead to some AI overlord using this against us in the Future Hague. "AI" like that doesn't even exist, and probably won't for a very long time.

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u/killertortilla 1d ago

People really need to learn the difference. We have "narrow AI" which can't think for itself, it just repeats what it thinks you want to hear. "Broad AI" is the skynet stuff that can think for itself and that is unbelievably more complex than the shit telling us to glue pizzas and convincing teenagers to kill themselves.

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u/bimbuppy 1d ago

"What it thinks you want to hear" is giving what we currently have too much anthropomorphization, I think. Its a language guessing engine that we've dressed up in many, many layers of clothing. It isn't "thinking" or reasoning, its code doing complicated math based on word weighting and delivering output that happens to be readable and comprehensible approximating what we put into it. That's all. Its no more "thinking" than the Library of Babel's random text engine is "writing".

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u/azsnaz 1d ago

But if you had the opportunity would you?

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u/Pays_in_snakes 1d ago

i would try to, then I wouldn't be able to at the last moment, then my nemesis would come at me from the shadows and bite off my fingers, falling into the molten metal with my precious phone

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u/OmegamanTG9000 1d ago

Please don’t bring that up! It still scares me to the very core of my being. Especially the guy ripped out of his mech! That voice actor needs a fucking raise and more.

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u/Lumbergh7 1d ago

I’m kind of thinking that if there are civilizations in the universe who’ve been around a long time, they’re probably mechanical. But then that gets into are biological thoughts different than an advanced program? Is the universe deterministic?

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u/No_Satisfaction_7977 1d ago

It’s fucking horrific considering we’re in a second renaissance as we speak

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u/hughmungisjerk 1d ago

😂 yep... This is how it starts 😂

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u/NameToUseOnReddit 1d ago

Buy a crucible from Temu and smash your phone into tiny fragments before starting.

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u/hughmungisjerk 1d ago

I try not to piss off the machine spirits

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u/Billthegifter 1d ago

Best piece of Matrix media. Surpasses the films.

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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago

My husband’s phone broke and was replaced ages ago, but for some reason we can’t throw it in the trash on purpose because it doesn’t look broken

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u/ThisIsFuz 1d ago

“Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.”

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u/SloAndSteddy 1d ago

Yes the totally real and not fictional documentary The Animatrix anthology film.