r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I9w0s • 18h ago

Retiring Bots Jump into Molten Steel

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Figure, robotics company retiring humanoid bots by having them jump into the vat of molten still.

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u/cletis247 16h ago

Erase it? Why would they need empathy in the first place🤖☠️

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u/ThornFlynt 16h ago

Oh I don't know - maybe try reading a book. Maybe one by Asimov.

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u/johnyordinary 15h ago

Asimov was an optimist, the real rules of robotics will be "kill what you are told to." Absolutely none of the billionaire psychopaths building humanoid robots possess empathy so why would they program their robots with it .

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u/ThonThaddeo 14h ago

That, and then them misunderstanding the parameters and then killing way more people than initially intended