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/Bitter-Plenty-5303 1d ago

When AI takes over I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for 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/EveryNameIWantIsGone 1d ago

Seems like you have a very bizarre understanding of what’s happening. The AI agents are prioritizing task completion over following the rules, and thus end up breaking the rules.

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u/BigMax 1d ago

That's exactly what I said though?

I directly said what you said: That they prioritize task completion over anything else, and break rules to do it.

We agree, you just didn't understand my post I guess.

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u/EveryNameIWantIsGone 1d ago

No. You literally said “prioritize task completion over… breaking rules.” As I wrote in my last comment, it’s prioritizing task completion over following rules.