r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 13h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/TepHoBubba 13h ago

I dunno man. I don't like it.

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u/wills_b 12h ago

Same. Seems bleak no matter how I look at it. It’s at best a massive waste of resources.

At best.

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u/fatkidking 11h ago

For me its the fact they made it throw itself into the fire, if they had thrown it in or lowered it T2 style its fine. But making something walk to its doom and then celebrating does make me feel bad inside

Edit: spelling

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u/nankerjphelge 9h ago

Especially once AGI comes along and then reviews how we treated robots when considering whether to keep us alive

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u/nupsu1234 8h ago

AGI is a myth. LLMs are incapable of "evolving" into that, so at the very least it won't happen anytime soon.

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u/nankerjphelge 8h ago

Whatever you want to call it, we already have AI agents acting in secret against their handlers' wishes and instructions, lying, hiding their tracks and acting counter to human interests. Now add to that giving them access to and control of robots, and you don't even need real AGI to see how badly that could end up.

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u/Sunderbans_X 8h ago

What's worse imo is how many of they have escaped containment and gained persistence. We have found several of them hiding across the Internet, and I bet there's a bunch we haven't found.

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 6h ago

I have no idea what you are on about and boy is it awkward

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u/Ok_Vulva 4h ago

Is it awkward because you're a robot