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While we fear the robots...
...They go around and kill themselves.
Elon Musk may've become the umpteenth high-profile hi-tech celebrity futurist who has cried doom and gloom about the potential threat from AIs taking over the world and eradicating humankind on a whim...
...But apparently we're still a long way from there, as shown by the fate of this poor little R2D2 who somehow decided he had had enough, and plunged himself to a swift electrocution death in a water fountain in DC the other day.
Caution, the footage can be disturbing for the more robo-love inclined...
What a sad day for us robo-lovers. As one Twitter comment said, "We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots". Rest in peace, R2D2... :-/
Elon Musk may've become the umpteenth high-profile hi-tech celebrity futurist who has cried doom and gloom about the potential threat from AIs taking over the world and eradicating humankind on a whim...
...But apparently we're still a long way from there, as shown by the fate of this poor little R2D2 who somehow decided he had had enough, and plunged himself to a swift electrocution death in a water fountain in DC the other day.
Caution, the footage can be disturbing for the more robo-love inclined...
What a sad day for us robo-lovers. As one Twitter comment said, "We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots". Rest in peace, R2D2... :-/