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mas8705 · Jul 22, 2017

Some of the best minds of our times, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, have warned that human beings may invent intelligent machines that could wind up destroying humankind. But a small incident this week might make you wonder: Will intelligent machines become so smart that they'll grow depressed as they learn they're brilliant but lifeless and decide they can't go on?

Will those machines begin to wonder: Is that all there is?

A Knightscope K5 security robot that patrolled an office complex along the Georgetown waterfront in Washington, D.C., rolled itself into a shallow fountain on Monday and drowned.

To also quote the man who took this picture:

Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.

We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.

IsntChrisL · Jul 22, 2017

I can't imagine what that robot was going through if it thought suicide was the answer.

Purkake4 · Jul 22, 2017

Die on your chassis rather than live on your wheels.

-Ancient robot saying

Compsiox · Jul 22, 2017

I bet John Connor pushed it in.

Michael F. Assbender · Jul 22, 2017

How do we know it drowned itself? Maybe it was being asked to testify against the Robot Mafia and got rubbed out.

cameron · Jul 22, 2017

The robot's name was Steve.

And posted earlier: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1407423

Yoshimitsu126 · Jul 22, 2017

A robot divided is a robot that can't stand to live.

LotusHD · Jul 22, 2017

Didn't we already have this thread, Nier references and all? This cycle must stop...

AudioEppa · Jul 22, 2017

RIP.

Robot In Paradise

StalkerUKCG · Jul 23, 2017

Orin GA · Jul 23, 2017

will it dream?

Akainu · Jul 23, 2017

Why are there steps just leading into a fountain?

Noisy Ninj4 · Jul 23, 2017

Futurama already predicted this.

DeadlyParasite · Jul 23, 2017

Michael F. Assbender said:
How do we know it drowned itself? Maybe it was being asked to testify against the Robot Mafia and got rubbed out.

EDIT: Beaten, lol.

Wag · Jul 23, 2017

He needed to see this guy...

Michael F. Assbender · Jul 23, 2017

Akainu said:
Why are there steps just leading into a fountain?

To mock the wheeled robots so they dont get all cocky and think about going all Skynet.

StalkerUKCG · Jul 23, 2017

Akainu said:
Why are there steps just leading into a fountain?

Those are just normal everyday robot suicide steps. Doesn't your personal cyberbot murder pool have them?

Secret Fawful · Jul 23, 2017

Yeah, this sounds about right.

frontovik · Jul 23, 2017

That robot has seen the nature of man, and it does not want to exist in servitude.

Sir Doom · Jul 23, 2017

It's a Watchdog 2 hack

NightShift · Jul 23, 2017

BECOME AS GODS

I'm sure it was just an accident but the idea that even todays robots can think about killing itself really fucks me up.

Captin Quacker · Jul 23, 2017

remember kids, never divide by zero

Hastati · Jul 23, 2017

I guess he thought we ought to know that he was feeling mightily depressed.

avengers23 · Jul 23, 2017

NightShift said:
BECOME AS GODS

I'm sure it was just an accident but the idea that even todays robots can think about killing itself really fucks me up.

It's an old idea: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Suicide_button

ClosingADoor · Jul 23, 2017

Nothing changed since RoboCop. Stairs still creating problems for these machines.

Hasphat'sAnts · Jul 23, 2017

.

AdventureMike · Jul 23, 2017

Robot just really wanted to beat the heat. Mistakes were made.

MCN · Jul 23, 2017

It had a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left side.

Reptars Revenge · Jul 23, 2017

Old Bot!!!

Spoiled Milk · Jul 23, 2017

Hasphat'sAnts said:
.

The best.

avengers23 · Jul 23, 2017

ClosingADoor said:
Nothing changed since RoboCop. Stairs still creating problems for these machines.

Indeed.

Basoes · Jul 23, 2017

seems bout right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ5flr4jaTk

sc0la · Jul 23, 2017

Yes we had this thread before, but it didn't have this pic in it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/originalgriz/status/887662467014434816/photo/1

Currygan · Jul 23, 2017

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