Robots have been suffering from all sorts of abuse these days.
They are kicked, punched, pushed, and even dragged into the chain around their necks.
In the latest example of robots becoming brutal, the video of them doing rounds on social media shows a startup engineer called Skild Ai having a chainsaw in the hands and feet of a robot dog.
“We've built a robotic brain that can't stop anything,” the company wrote in an accompanying tweet. “Smashed limbs? A clogged motor? If the bot can move, the brain will move it.
This video is both impressive and confusing, showing the effectiveness of AI that can adapt and move, almost every robot body, and even a severely cut body.
Even if the four limbs fall, the Robodog begins to fall almost immediately, although in a rare, almost dignified way.
According to a recent blog post, Skild trained AI to “control the entire multiverse of robots, not just robots, but robots with different bodies. “I can't remember the solutions for one body. I have to find a strategy that works with all of them.”
“We created an universe with 100,000 different robots and trained AI to control everything,” the company explained, claiming that “we were often amazed at our ability to adapt to scenarios that were very different from what we saw during training.”
In a series of experiments, the company showed off the new robot brain's ability to respond to a variety of scenarios, including broken limbs and feet, such as being blocked with wheels or forced to walk on stilts.
“The results show an early spark of intelligence in the atomic world,” hinting at a future where robots can adapt to virtually any environment or body, and “one day we can ensure that humans can support factories, hospitals, homes, and more.”
But it is debatable whether that justifies all the abuse we've passed those poor robots over the years. If they outweigh our own intelligence, we certainly wouldn't want to be their mercy.
For some, that future is much closer than we think.
“Deep learning in robotics is coming,” Palisade's research director Jeffrey Radish tweeted in response to the Skild demonstration. “It is plausible that AI surpasses human performance on strategic cognitive tasks at the same time that robotics surpasses human performance on most tasks.”
“If not, superhuman AI will soon allow robots to jump humans,” he added.
Details of robot abuse: An intrusive video shows a person twitching a robot with a chain around the neck
