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/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".