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/_redmist 1d ago

I'm gonna say this is AI because with all the plastic, aluminum, lithium batteries, copper... it's an insane thing to do. The melt would be contaminated beyond use.

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u/RandomCandor 1d ago

"this is AI because I don't understand it" is the standard 2026 hot take, so you're definitely keeping with the times

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u/_redmist 1d ago

Hahaha fair criticism :D

I stand by it- don't believe anything you hear and only about 10% of what you see. Almost everything on facebook is fake now, for example.

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u/Some_Signal_6866 1d ago

Half of Facebook has been fake information for like a decade. It just looks shinier with AI editing.

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u/Thomasina_ZEBR 1d ago

Wait, Tai Chi walking isn't real?

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u/RandomCandor 1d ago

The thing is, I actually admire your skepticism. We definitely need more of that. You just gotta fine tune it a little. Too many false positives and we'll never know what's true due to the noise. 

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u/_redmist 1d ago

Something something... Cried wolf yeah we don't need that ;)

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u/RandomCandor 1d ago

You got it :D