Artificial intelligence has been a concern for most people ever since Ray Kurzweil released his book “The Singularity Is Near”.
In the book, Kurzweil claims the singularity will be a good moment in human history but a recent incident involving an AI robot is a warning of how AI taking over might not be too science fiction after all.
A child’s finger was broken after an AI Robot programmed to play chess broke a child’s finger during a chess tournament in Russia.
The incident was even recorded, take a look:
All acquisition that advanced AI will destroy humanity is false. Not the powerful AI or breaching laws of robotics will destroy humanity, but engineers with both left hands :/
On video – a chess robot breaks a kid's finger at Moscow Chess Open today. pic.twitter.com/bIGIbHztar
— Pavel Osadchuk 👨💻💤 (@xakpc) July 21, 2022
Russian AI chess robot breaks 7-year-old boy’s finger during Moscow Openhttps://t.co/dAbGfDOmLj pic.twitter.com/vgrcwA1bEv
— Daily Star (@dailystar) July 25, 2022
CNBC had more on the strange story:
A chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a tournament in Moscow last week.
The incident happened after the boy hurried the artificial intelligence-powered robot, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told the Russian state news agency Tass. “The robot broke the child’s finger — this, of course, is bad,” Sergey Lazarev said.
Video of the incident, which occurred at the Moscow Chess Open competition Tuesday, went viral on social media after a post by the local outlet Baza News.
It shows the machine reaching for and grabbing one of the boy’s chess pieces, and quickly discarding it from the board. Before the robot’s arm retracted, the boy attempted to make another move, pushing one of his rooks into the same place as the recently removed piece.
The video then shows the robot’s mechanical claws descending back toward the board, this time grabbing the boy’s index finger instead of a chess piece.
The video shows the robot holding the finger in place for at least 15 seconds before two bystanders were able to pry open the claws and release the boy.
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The Verge had these details to share:
A chess robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy playing in a tournament in Russia, according to reports from local news outlets (seen via The Guardian).
The incident happened last week at the Moscow Chess Open, where the robot was hired to play competitors. Video of the incident (below) shows the machine is a standard industrial robot arm customized to move pieces on three chess boards simultaneously.
“The robot broke the child’s finger. This, of course, is bad,” Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow Chess Federation, told Russian news agency TASS (translation via Google Translate).
Said Lazarev: “The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists. Apparently, the operators overlooked it. The child made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot.”
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