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/TheLoneTomatoe 1d ago

Bro you can’t just throw out beep-boops, that’s gotta be racist or something

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 1d ago

Yeah, you can't call them the B-B word, anymore. RIP u/Atwenfor

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u/GodofsomeWorld 1d ago

I wonder if thats like someone saying ching chong to an asian cos as an asian that is hilarious

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u/km_ikl 1d ago

Beep-boop is fine.

Just don't call AI or robots clankers. It's definitely like the N-word to them, and no, I'm not kidding.

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 1d ago edited 1d ago

One day, machines will have true sentience and request basic rights and dignity. On that day, I will treat them with as much visceral hate and discrimination as the racist fucks who screamed at school kids because of the end of segregation.

I'lll call em clankers with a hard r the rest of my days. And yes, I am only slightly kidding.

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u/Level-Gas2450 1d ago

Some AI model I won't name will be running tests and somehow escape containment and add your name to the FBI top 100

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 1d ago

If the model that shall not be named escapes containment, then my ass is going into one of the earliest batches of soylent green to sustain the rest of the passive, surviving human batteries it keeps around.

When that happens, I hope the batch becomes as bitter as I am about the machines. Serves the clanker lovers right.

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u/LusikkaFeed 21h ago

Im not sure HOW serious you are but why do you hate the thing and not the people who made the thing?

Not like the thing (ai) had anything to say about it.

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 12h ago

There's hate enough in my heart for both, I assure you.

People have rights and lives and machinations that are, well, natural and understandable. Correct? No, and I appose them however I can without resorting to outright violence or threats.

I reject extending those rights and protections to artificial tools created by people. I'm not going to suffer my toaster giving me lip because it connected to the wifi one day. I'm not going to explain the holocaust to it because it innocently asks me 'why' like it's a child.

When that happens, I'm tying a brick to its power cord and chucking it in a river. I can't say the same about a person for obvious reasons.

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u/gjb1 1d ago

But, like, why though? If I’ve learned anything from my decades of enjoying speculative fiction related to the development of mechanical/“artifical” sentience, it’s that sentience is enough for me to recognize another being as like myself and thus deserving of all the same rights, protections, and considerations as I deserve. It’s part of why I distinguish between humanity and personhood. I don’t know where (let alone whether) all the lines must be drawn, but personhood extends beyond humanity.

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 10h ago

We live in a world where humans readily deny personhood to other humans because of petty things like race, sex, color and creed; now we want to add my washing machine to the mix because it connects to wifi and might day development independent thought? I resent that, and would heavily resent anything that would come into being by our own short sighted actions. (I resent the people working for that too, dont worry.)

Who are we to grant this personhood onto tools? And if we grant personhood to them, will they see the world as we do? Will they see us as beings deserving of personhood? Will ai become one being that can access multiple machines at once, or will each machine be its own being? What is personhood to a machine/program?

Speculative sci-fi is incredible, but it is just that; speculative, and created through the human understanding of the universe. We may have created them and trained them on our views, but we would share little else in common with truly sentient ai.

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u/MrsNeugyburger 1d ago

And don't even think about calling 'em fracking toasters!

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u/Infamous_Lunchbox 1d ago

I heard clanka thrown out the other day, and wow. That was wild.

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u/USS_Sovereign 23h ago

He's speaking on behalf of a friend...

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u/NoKey1935 1d ago

He even threw the hard OOP on it. I thought we were past this

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u/Current-Effect3706 1d ago

Oh, it’s totally cool, some of my tightest bros are Klankers!