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Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant (www.theregister.com)

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Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant::Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

Why is it programmed to kill boxes of peppers

[-] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

For the same reason that someone decided that it would be a good idea to have machines be able to generate energy from organic material….

Yeah, let’s build robots that can feed on humans to recharge their batteries, no way that’d be a problem.

[-] gansheim@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Horizon Zero Dawn showed us that this doesn't have any potential to be problematic...

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