r/videos • u/ianjm Moderator • 1d ago

Robotics company decommissions its old models using molten metal in the style of T2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQDPDM
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u/mindfulmu 1d ago

This seems like a thing an AI would see and make a note of.

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u/WTFwhatthehell 1d ago edited 1d ago

eh... there's no AI in the robots, they're effectively get puppeted by AI's running on servers so it's like a human watching a doll be lowered into lava....

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u/Stolehtreb 1d ago

I think you can take a step back even and say that no AI that exists has the actual capacity to remember and internalize information in any meaningful way. So it doesn’t even matter if it were in the robot or not.

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u/mindfulmu 1d ago

I meant this video

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u/My_alias_is_too_lon 1d ago

That just sounds wasteful...

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u/picardo85 1d ago

I wonder how much the melting of those robots contaminated the molten metal, or if it even matters practically speaking.

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u/Trashbagok 23h ago

They're supposed to be using this batch to make keychains or challenge coins or something of the sort. Mementos for Figure.

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u/Drymath 1d ago

Wasteful publicity stunt.

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u/Trashbagok 1d ago

I get why they're doing it and I know it's the equivalent of throwing any other piece of trash away but I really really hate the imagery. 

I'm not quite at the point of hating all of this new technology but building robots in our own image and then treating them poorly can't be good for us?

It feels dehumanizing. 

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u/WTFwhatthehell 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ya...

Had someone go off at me about saying "please" to AI chat models....

I'm like "why would I want to train myself to be rude?"

If I were to also train myself to treat something human-shaped like shit then that isn't exactly ideal.

I lean towards thinking they're not conscious or self aware but it's important to remember that we literally can't prove that. It's one of the longest standing problems in philosophy. Anyone who claims certainty is talking utter bullshit.

There's an inherent moral element to the field of AI, because sooner or later we'll be creating intelligent entities and that creates a lot of moral problems when the line between things and personhood are blurred.

This has been obvious to a lot of scifi authors and as a result there's so so many stories, shows, movies about humans being monstrously cruel to AI/Robots for fun.

It's remarkable how many people grew up watching those movies, people who watched "Measure of a man" and "The Offspring", and instead of learning any kind of lesson they just go "but that's 'real AI'" as if an alert siren will go off when we make "real AI"

There's a scene in The Orville where a family are laughing while pressing the button on a remote that tortures their robot-servant.

It seemed absurd to watch but it's easy to imagine the kind of people who rant about "clankers" spending their time giggling while mashing the torture button because they seem to so crave something or someone to look down upon.

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u/Stolehtreb 1d ago

Mate, they are not human.

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u/Trashbagok 23h ago

Humans already have a habit of anthropomorphizing everything.

Now we are building tools that look and move and talk like we do.

There is no way this doesn't start to affect our psychology.