These days, the video of a small robot that wakes up its colleagues in the middle of the night and goes home has taken over social networks.
In a video that went viral on social media, a robot convinced a group of fellow robots to quit their jobs and go home; Reports indicate that this incident took place in August.
According to a video circulating on social media, CCTV cameras at an exhibition in Shanghai captured a scene in which a small robot begins to communicate with larger robots, apparently asking the larger robots about their work and life.
- The little robot starts its question like this: Do you work overtime?
- The big robot replied: I will never quit my job.
- Then Arbai asked: So you are not going home? The big robot replied: I don’t have a house.
- “Then come home with me,” said the AI-equipped robot before exiting the exhibit.
After the connection is made, the small robot manages to convince the larger robots to “come home” with it, and the video shows a line of robots exiting the exhibit.
In a quick reaction to this incident, the Shanghai company said: “Our robots were stolen by a foreign robot, a model called Erbai, from another manufacturer in Hangzhou; “Arbai has gained access to the internal operating protocol of the Shanghai company’s robots and its related licenses.”
While it was still believed that such actions would be nearly impossible for a robot that actually initiates a conversation and hijacks 12 large robots, the Hangzhou company revealed that the incident was a test.
The Hangzhou company says they contacted the Shanghai robot maker and asked if they would allow their robots to be hijacked, and they agreed. But beyond this agreement, nothing is reportedly staged. The AI-powered master was instructed to convince other robots, and the robots were convinced.
However, the maker also emphasized that the kidnapping did not go completely as per the script. During the design process, the developer only wrote some basic instructions for the master, such as yelling “go home” and simple communication commands. Other parts of the interaction were real-time conversations between the master and the robot group that were captured by the camera.
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