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Monitoring AI and hyper-automation
It seems
like almost everyday now we hear some strange story about a robot,
from the Microsoft Twitterbot going full Nazi in 24 hours to Google’s
AI digesting romance novels and regurgitating them as postmodern
poetry. We are witnessing the overlapping pubescent evolutions of
both algorithmic artificial intelligence and social media — and the
result is a daily dose of discomfiting news.
It’s not
limited to just algorithms, either. Actual robots have increasingly
been in the news. Whether it’s a robot horse trekking across remote
terrain, DARPA’s drone children being prepared for war, or a worker
bot being abused in a factory, the age of automated minions is upon
us.
For all of
the stories, however, it’s somewhat rare that we hear about one of
these robots escaping. But that’s exactly what happened in Perm, a
city near the Urals in Russia, where an early self-learning version
of the Promobot escaped its testing area and tied up nearby traffic.
According to
its co-founder, Oleg Kivokurtsev, “The robot was learning automatic
movement algorithms on the testing ground, [and] these functions will
feature in the latest version of the Promobot.”
While some
have questioned whether the “escape” was actually a PR stunt,
the Promobot — which is, quite literally, a promotional robot that
hosts and provides information — was missing for 45 minutes before
its battery died.
“Our
engineer drove onto the testing ground and forgot to close the gates.
So the robot escaped and went on his little adventure,” Kivokurtsev
added.
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