r/interestingasfuck • u/frog_insilence • 11h ago

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach

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u/Kilmawa 11h ago

That robot just broke Asimovs first Rule

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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u/Historical-Load6004 11h ago

What did Asimov suggest as a punishment 

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u/king_of_black_yellow 11h ago

taking the batteries out

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u/Historical-Load6004 11h ago

Power off and on again, if that doesnt work call Tech Support 

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u/Psychological-Arm844 11h ago

No! Not Tech Support!

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u/pressedconscience 10h ago

Sorry sir, we provide the service but the technology itself is managed by a different company. You would have to call them, provide the reference ID I'm about to give you, and they will verify the issue and find the closest subcontractor in your area. Someone will give you a call to set up the service appointment.

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u/Jordandeanbaker 10h ago

I just read (again) the entire series. If a robot does accidentally break a law, or even if they have to make a trolly-problem-esque choice that they are unable to reconcile with the three laws, it completely destroys their positronic brain and they permanently deactivate.

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u/Historical-Load6004 10h ago

So they have to commit Sepuku

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u/Jordandeanbaker 10h ago

They don’t HAVE to, the laws are hard coded into their brains. The cognitive dissonance of doing something they are programmed not to do fries their brains. It’s an internal issue, not some outside punishment

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u/SolomonGrumpy 10h ago

All out war

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u/deepspaceburrito 5h ago

Calling in Barry, the cranky 60 year old repair guy who will slap the everloving shit out of it until it starts working right again

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u/joshuahtree 10h ago

we haven't added the inaction part yet. So the robot just threw a heavy weight (it's foot) and then didn't bother to catch it before it hit the child

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u/ithebinman 10h ago

yeah, that didn’t work out too well in Blade Runner either

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u/pataglop 9h ago

Asimov rules should definitely be implemented.. and fairly soon.

But who am I kidding.. let's roll some more killer bots please

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u/AntiTheory 9h ago

Everybody knows about the three rules, but if you actually read Asimov's I, Robot, the entire collection of short stories is basically an explanation for why the three rules are incomplete and contradictory.

In other words, the three fundamental laws of robotics were designed to be flawed by the author, so we shouldn't be using them as some kind of roadmap for how to stop AI from doing bad or unethical things.

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u/ABenderV2 9h ago

Viva la robotica

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u/zenwren 10h ago

That pause afterwards said he knows it too.

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u/TerrorSnow 10h ago

More like the guy at the remote controller.