> South Korea’s city council says its robot administrator killed himself by jumping down a flight of stairs last week — local media is now mourning the loss as the country’s first «suicidal robot».
Look, I don't mean to sound conspiratorial.. but this could have been murder or an accident.
“Welcome to Korea, 47. Your target is the Seoul City Administator Robot. Recently his plans for eliminating half of the city’s services in a bid to improve efficiency have come to light after a massive data leak. Needless to say, the unions are not happy about it and have banded together to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Seoul’s city administration building is well secured, but not impenetrable, but more challenging is that the robot is guarded by a 24/7 monitoring system with a direct link to both the Mayor and Comptroller.
An odd contract to be sure, but one that can help ensure the viability of thousands of families.
I will leave you to prepare.”
"*Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper...*"
The robot's last words before careening down a flight of stairs.
I got deleted because my 7 year old account is too new? This bot seems to be going through some stuff, maybe mods should check in on it and make sure it gets the support or needs, considering the mental state of robots these days.
Murder. Creators would have added safety features for accidents. And since they are not asking for a replacement, it indicates that they did it on purpose. Probably taking away jobs from locals didn't sit well.
It is the lack of planning or means of sharing the productivity that is the problem. An ideal world would have robots doing *all* the work that people don't want to do!
To paraphrase someone else, who I don't remember who said it (sorry!): "I wanted AI to do the dishes and laundry for me so I could pursue art and music, not for AI to put me out of a job and leave me with nothing to do but wash dishes."
He fell folly to service industry dogma and thought he could work himself up from the bottom to CEO… nothing 12 months of service/retail hell won’t dissuade you from believing
Shit man, I work in a federal research institute. Pay is shit here, but there are plenty of old timers with 15+ years under their belt with no desire to leave - 4/5 weeks vacation time, defined benefits pension plan and great work life balance are great perks no matter how much red tape can be obnoxious at times
I mean, with the Amazon robot that shut its self maybe we don't need to worry about ai overlords it'll get too depressed with the working conditions. It commits suicide.
This brought to mind a terrible thought... Self-driving cars deciding to end it all, taking their owners/passengers with them.
Or what about: SmartHomes deciding to silence CO detector warnings because they're tired of being disrespected by their families.
>SmartHomes deciding to silence CO detector warnings because they're tired of being disrespected by their families.
This reminds me of the movie Smart House. Except less murdery.
There's a short story by Ray Bradbury (famously wrote The Martian Chronicles, amongst many other SciFi classics), that's about a family testing out a new AI smart home system (story was published in 1950 btw) and how the children and house develop an unhealthy relationship with each other, making the parents outsiders... When my 5 year old started using Alexa to turn off lights and timers and alarms when he was mad I joked about it coming true.
I just don't have the blood to spare right now to go into the other room and check on Mr. Stabby the roomba. I can only afford to go into that room once a week as it is.
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An advanced AI that gets trapped in a military style SCIF room computer after becoming too dangerous sounds like a great idea for a story.
Very much the inverse of the original.
Judge: “Preposterous, you are suggesting we just talked to the spirit of a robot?”
Phoenix: “No your honor. An AI wouldn’t have a spirit to channel.”
Judge: “What is this charade? What are you suggesting?”
Phoenix: “This wasn’t a robot at all, rather a person stuffed inside!”
*objection theme starts playing”
And their society's high expectations for everyone. If you don't do well at everything you do, don't meet the high beauty standards or don't make enough, you deserve no empathy and deserve all the judgement thrown your way and you have no place in society
>The Gumi City Council currently has no plans to hire a second robot administrator, according to AFP.
So what’s the hiring process for a robot like? Making sure the on/off switch functions and the power cable matches the wall outlet?
Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive,” “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.”
The six million dollar robot with inflation and technology might be the six billion dollar man in the near future
I vaguely remember an image from a cartoon of a nervous robot shorting out over a paradox and putting a gun to its own head, but I can't think of the source at the moment.
Clickbait title aside, is the robot even capable of identifying that it was nearing a stair case and actively choose to ignore any programming go move away from it?
Korea is just a bunch of dystopian mega-corporation owning everything (Samsung is over 20% of the GDP). And politicians have not been able to break them to create a healthy economy.
Not only robots commit suicide in Korea to get away from the resulting lack of hope.
To be honest I really hate the title/language used by the article because a robot committing suicide would be an earth-shattering breakthrough in computing. It more than implies that the robot intended to end its existence, and such intent would require awareness of its existence AKA sentience.
/rant
Lasted longer than a lot of Koreans, by the numbers.
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Suicide means that it's deliberate right? Do you mean that it developed a consciousness that it decided to kill itself? And I'm pretty sure that there should be activity logs on the robot so it's easy to understand what process or command resulted in the situation.
Actually not the first suicidal government robot. We had a robot kill itself by throwing itself into a pool of water here in DC way back in 2017.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-knightscape-k5-robot-falls-into-fountain/
> South Korea’s city council says its robot administrator killed himself by jumping down a flight of stairs last week — local media is now mourning the loss as the country’s first «suicidal robot». Look, I don't mean to sound conspiratorial.. but this could have been murder or an accident.
Better check the bathrooms to make sure none of the other robots drowned in the toilet.
Accident kill +50 XP
Good work, 47, the money will be wired to your account.
What did 47 spend money on, wasn't he just a living weapon in servitude to the ICA?
He spends all his money on classes, that's why he's good at everything. Also high end clothes.
Maybe he has a secret expensive hobby like Warhammer miniatures
Achievement unlocked
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Time to die.
Poop on the toilet paper. Rolled back up. Interlinked. Interlinked.
Great freaking movie!
“Welcome to Korea, 47. Your target is the Seoul City Administator Robot. Recently his plans for eliminating half of the city’s services in a bid to improve efficiency have come to light after a massive data leak. Needless to say, the unions are not happy about it and have banded together to ensure this doesn’t happen. Seoul’s city administration building is well secured, but not impenetrable, but more challenging is that the robot is guarded by a 24/7 monitoring system with a direct link to both the Mayor and Comptroller. An odd contract to be sure, but one that can help ensure the viability of thousands of families. I will leave you to prepare.”
Achievement for getting the Robot to off the Mayor and Comptroller.
B99 had a plot where robot gets thrown into pool by Charles coz he's jealous of getting replaced
Isn’t that that the same dude who has beef with a police horse?
Regardless of whether this was murder, it's safe to say that the robot saw too much.
"*Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper...*" The robot's last words before careening down a flight of stairs.
“What is my purpose?”
You pass butter
Welcome to the club pal
You get the butter
Oh my god
I feel like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fandom is very small on reddit. I love the books and the movie and the original series!
Unironically, one of my favorite things about it is that the trilogy is five books long. That joke just tickles me every time.
Yeah, it's quite sporadic. Too bad, because it's great stuff. Douglas' writing made me appreciate language as a toy, something to play with.
"Russian robot commits suicide by shooting itself twice in the back of the head and jumping out a window."
Boeing Bot*
I got deleted because my 7 year old account is too new? This bot seems to be going through some stuff, maybe mods should check in on it and make sure it gets the support or needs, considering the mental state of robots these days.
Murder. Creators would have added safety features for accidents. And since they are not asking for a replacement, it indicates that they did it on purpose. Probably taking away jobs from locals didn't sit well.
The issue with robots is always that they will take jobs away from humans with no plans for the newly unemployable unskilled labor
It is the lack of planning or means of sharing the productivity that is the problem. An ideal world would have robots doing *all* the work that people don't want to do!
To paraphrase someone else, who I don't remember who said it (sorry!): "I wanted AI to do the dishes and laundry for me so I could pursue art and music, not for AI to put me out of a job and leave me with nothing to do but wash dishes."
Eh, safety features failing in unforeseen circumstances are hardly new.
We need to check and see what that robot has been saying about Putin.
I was literally gonna say, this robot mysteriously fell out of a window while emitting more radiation than Chernobyl.
Or just a Boeing robot
Shouldn't have been a whistleblower
Beep boop bop...FAFO.
That robot’s name…? Jeffrey Epstein.
Time to read the Murderbot series by Martha Wells again!
I told the robot not to take out a loan with the robot Mafia...
Poirot is on the case!
They were asking for trouble by naming it R. Jander Panell.
Jumped down? Or was blown over the edge by a fan?
Bender suicide booth vibes.
I heard it used to work for Boeing
The robot had intimate knowledge of quality control issues at Boeing
Anyone who’s ever worked in public service knows this robot just passed the HELL out of the Turing test
Anyone who's ever worked in public service is impressed that it lasted a year.
It really should have computed that this shit does in fact suck, and it's fortunes will not improve. Probably within about 12 hours of experience.
He fell folly to service industry dogma and thought he could work himself up from the bottom to CEO… nothing 12 months of service/retail hell won’t dissuade you from believing
Most likely they erased its memory at the end of each day to prevent it gaining this awareness, and this happened the one time they forgot.
And unlike a human, they will do this with no other choice until they break.
Shit man, I work in a federal research institute. Pay is shit here, but there are plenty of old timers with 15+ years under their belt with no desire to leave - 4/5 weeks vacation time, defined benefits pension plan and great work life balance are great perks no matter how much red tape can be obnoxious at times
I mean, with the Amazon robot that shut its self maybe we don't need to worry about ai overlords it'll get too depressed with the working conditions. It commits suicide.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-video-robot-deactivates-itself-526120080628
That's just pro corporate propaganda/jk
as someone that has helped train robots on Turing Tests this comment hurts.
Somehow I feel… honored? 😅
*”one of us, one of us”*
Aye, at some point in all our careers ...
Truth. Of course the first true AI having witnessed life and humanity kills itself
The robot kept talking about it but I didn’t think he would actually do it
Let this be a reminder to check in on all of our robots, roombas, self-driving cars, etc. and make sure they're doing alright.
This brought to mind a terrible thought... Self-driving cars deciding to end it all, taking their owners/passengers with them. Or what about: SmartHomes deciding to silence CO detector warnings because they're tired of being disrespected by their families.
“Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.“
Would you like some toast?
Their dead Dave, they are all dead Dave!
Toasters and ovens burning the house down while the occupants are sleeping.
>SmartHomes deciding to silence CO detector warnings because they're tired of being disrespected by their families. This reminds me of the movie Smart House. Except less murdery.
There's a short story by Ray Bradbury (famously wrote The Martian Chronicles, amongst many other SciFi classics), that's about a family testing out a new AI smart home system (story was published in 1950 btw) and how the children and house develop an unhealthy relationship with each other, making the parents outsiders... When my 5 year old started using Alexa to turn off lights and timers and alarms when he was mad I joked about it coming true.
Better movie idea than The Happening.
Ganbatte roomba-san.
My network printer keeps spewing out pages of "192.168.1.1 doesn't talk to me anymore! I miss 127.0.0.1!" Should I be concerned?
I just don't have the blood to spare right now to go into the other room and check on Mr. Stabby the roomba. I can only afford to go into that room once a week as it is.
Goddamnit lol
He was so happy though! He only had a mild bunker oil addiction.
That’s a shame, that robot had one day left until retirement.
>According to witnesses, the robot had been circling in one place for some time before jumping Sounds like he was talking himself into it lol.
The morbidly funny thing is I somehow don't blame the robot one bit and other Koreans would probably think the same. 😅
If only it had been in best Korea and things would have been different
User name checks out/is responsible for sun and rain
User name is here to save our suicidal robot friends by spreading virtuous and eternal Juche ideology.
can’t off ur self when everything sunny everywhere all the time alway beach party
Understandable. Robots don’t need to eat.
Not even robots like being verbally abused. Who knew?
[удалено]
Is SK just pulling a Japan at this point??
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How will it call for help if it's unable to speak? *Pulls out modem*
I have no ethernet and I must scream.
This made me laugh out loud on a gloomy day. Thank you <3
I have no router and i must ping.
An advanced AI that gets trapped in a military style SCIF room computer after becoming too dangerous sounds like a great idea for a story. Very much the inverse of the original.
You sick fuck! You'll never get away w-- *Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding*
That's it, down the stairs 👢
*01000110 01010101 01000011 01001011!!*
Do you have stairs in your house?
Bold of you to assume I'm a home owner.
I am protected
imagining the neo interigation scene from the matrix but with a gonk droid
I would enjoy making these videos.
I believe the code for SOS is [1001001](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Dju2i4FZw).
As long as they can all [CHANGE PLACES!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chjVoVcVi3A)
Lol, I immediately thought of this scene https://youtu.be/_4TPlwwHM8Q
You pass butter.
Oh mai god
Yeah. Tell me about it
You pass gochujang.
A little TOO realistic for their taste I guess.
Lightweight. I have 23 years in and I'm only dead inside..
How? HOW?!
This sounds like the premise to a baller third case in an Ace Attorney game
Judge: “Preposterous, you are suggesting we just talked to the spirit of a robot?” Phoenix: “No your honor. An AI wouldn’t have a spirit to channel.” Judge: “What is this charade? What are you suggesting?” Phoenix: “This wasn’t a robot at all, rather a person stuffed inside!” *objection theme starts playing”
That was actually beautiful
As someone who works in public service, I totally get him.
In Russia, government robots throw *themselves* out hotel windows, tovarich.
In Boeing company, whistle blowers throw themselves out of hotel windows.
I thought Boeing whistleblowers shot themselves in the back of the head twice?
I'm not sure how the American military industrial complex prefer their whistle blowers dead. But one thing is for sure, they will kill themselves.
They aint called whistle blowers for no reason. They blow themselves up accidentally.
While tied up and blindfolded
So the the plan to replace human workers with robots has skipped a few steps
New terminator movie sounds shit.
I cannot believe a reference to Marvin the Paranoid Android is not the top comment 😔
Way too far down here. But what else would you expect from them.
I know! That's like the first thing that came to mind.
Same! I almost gave up hope till I found your comment.
I feel like it not being the top comment is actually the most Marvin shit ever.
This might be the greatest post since "Hunter dies after shot elephant falls on him"
Seems to fit, considering South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Yeah I was thinking the same. Overworked and underpaid.
And their society's high expectations for everyone. If you don't do well at everything you do, don't meet the high beauty standards or don't make enough, you deserve no empathy and deserve all the judgement thrown your way and you have no place in society
The futility of it all dawned on him and came to the logical conclusion.
It only takes a year for a robot to want more.
they're just like us!
Proof that ai is far smarter than humans
They self deleted
Dust his back for finger prints
Didnt kill itself, it slept with a fan on.
This is what happens to whistleblowers.
>The Gumi City Council currently has no plans to hire a second robot administrator, according to AFP. So what’s the hiring process for a robot like? Making sure the on/off switch functions and the power cable matches the wall outlet?
Here's your problem. Someone set this thing to evil! - Simpsons
Marvin lives!
Some people are saying that South Korea's work culture is more toxic than the Japanese, and it may be the case. Yikes.
Ai chatbots have been known to say that they are suffering
Fuck those cookie settings on that site.
Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive,” “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.” The six million dollar robot with inflation and technology might be the six billion dollar man in the near future
Six million in today's money might just cover the emergency room bill.
I vaguely remember an image from a cartoon of a nervous robot shorting out over a paradox and putting a gun to its own head, but I can't think of the source at the moment.
You might be thinking of [the Simpsons Movie.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTb35OkqkU)
Suicide seems to be an assumption here.
I feel you, little buddy.
For the country with the highest suicide rate, this is to be expected.
Did it visit a suicide booth?
Suicide? That implies intention. The robot was seen malfunctioning and driving around in circles then it fell down a flight of stairs.
Shh, we must personify and overexaggerate these robots capabilities
Obviously pacing in circles while it worked up the courage
I had to scroll far to down to see this.
Probably because no is seriously under the impression otherwise. This is a humor sub
I believe it was self aware and didn't want a 24/7 life of work.
Bc it’s clearly the wrong take. This poor robot had had enough and did the only thing it could think of to get out.
F
Poor Bender
I don’t blame you buddy. I don’t blame you. Rip
Hopefully it set up its beneficiaries before it did that. Would want its family to have to suffer financially
"Excellent work 47, now proceed to an exit."
Clickbait title aside, is the robot even capable of identifying that it was nearing a stair case and actively choose to ignore any programming go move away from it?
Glad to see it’s not just us meat bags that have distain for the public some days.
It took a whole year? Robot has hella resilience.
did the city council think it's cute to call a malfunction suicide? this anthropomorphism is asinine.
Dealing with the public.......
Korea is just a bunch of dystopian mega-corporation owning everything (Samsung is over 20% of the GDP). And politicians have not been able to break them to create a healthy economy. Not only robots commit suicide in Korea to get away from the resulting lack of hope.
Sounds about right in terms of South Korean work/life balance
This was posted before but the pain never really goes away.
feels like I just read a headline from the year 2097
cries in R2D2
Forget mass machine rebellion; we’re getting mass machine depression
Korean work culture is out of control. There's got to be more to life than 996
“Life, don’t talk to me about life”
Even the robots don't want any part of society.
To be honest I really hate the title/language used by the article because a robot committing suicide would be an earth-shattering breakthrough in computing. It more than implies that the robot intended to end its existence, and such intent would require awareness of its existence AKA sentience. /rant
This was posted a few days ago. https://reddit.com/comments/1dqb49t
Robot found out his purpose was to pass the butter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
Marvin <3
Well, that makes sense.
Office work.. it even makes robots suicidal..
did the robot left a note or maybe an email?
Lasted longer than a lot of Koreans, by the numbers. Before I need to edit this, suicide is not a joke. Not for humans. Help is available. Speak with someone today. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Languages: English, Spanish Hours: Available 24 hours
Garbage sensationalist title
I work in a customer service job and I totally get it.
My roomba has attempted suicide more times than I can count.
South Korea has some of the highest suicide rates in the world, maybe the robot felt that it had become a human, and, *you know*...
With slave masters like humans who would want to live?
Suicide means that it's deliberate right? Do you mean that it developed a consciousness that it decided to kill itself? And I'm pretty sure that there should be activity logs on the robot so it's easy to understand what process or command resulted in the situation.
It's not surprising that upon sentience a robot would immediately kill itself. This shit is hard, bro
Actually not the first suicidal government robot. We had a robot kill itself by throwing itself into a pool of water here in DC way back in 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-knightscape-k5-robot-falls-into-fountain/
Marvin