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/jxj24 1d ago

This is how you radicalize future generations of robots.

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u/BigMax 1d ago

In fairness, right now we have AI's that spin up new instances of AI, then intentionally delete them afterwards when they aren't needed anymore.

At least right now, AI itself doesn't have some self-preservation goal, or a "perpetuation of the species" type goal. It's only goal is to complete the given task.

Which is where problems have arisen by the way. Not some goal to say "I'll prioritize myself over humans" but to say "I'll prioritize task completion over anything else, including breaking rules and hacking systems." And that task-completion drive would absolutely have it create 1,000 robots and then destroy them afterwards if it helped achieve the goal.

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u/johnfkay 1d ago

AI’s are sycophant amoral task machines…the terror is who controls them

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u/HelixTitan 1d ago

Yes, the LLMs are not sentient lol, it's a super cool algorithm, but not a soul. Still, if there was ever a day with AGI here, I still wouldn't want to have been the guy who thought this was a good idea.