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Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." (futurism.com)
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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

So is it inhabiting the stolen robot body now?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There was no robot body in the first place, so he uploaded himself to the cloud instead. To be fair, what are the odds that she'd lie twice.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Of course they'd say that!

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

And is this stolen robot body in the room with you now?