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I love this so much. I'd love to find one with sound. In the meantime I'm just watching this over and over humming the Rocky theme.

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Anyone have a link where I can watch this without allowing the website and their 194 partners access to my info?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yep.

Another day in the Fake-AI apocalypse.

... if anybody can workshop that phrase into something snappier, catchier, that can easily fit into a headline, please do so.

The sooner this all blows up, the less actual damage it will do in the long run.

Call that uh... accelerationist anti-accelerationism.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do they have to only have two legs? They should make the robots Pleakely style.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

lack of imagination

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 121 points 2 days ago

Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.

One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They just told the robot it got drafted.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd almost created a new account to upvote you again

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a lot of people probably thought everything was fine and didn't even seen the gaff thanks to the curtain guy's quick thinking.

I do wonder if they should first work on an Ai driven automated curtain though before making the next AIDOL, you really can't trust that every curtain guy will have such catlike Reflexes.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The dude trying to cover it up with the piece of cloth at the end was chef's kiss.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago

I like to call it the "Don't embarrass comrade Putin curtain"

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the frantic amateurishness could not have been better choreographed

Almost makes it believable if they call it a haha funny comedy act as a cover up.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's too late! I saw everything.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone's getting defenestrated over this

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 18 points 2 days ago

The best thing Putin has done is to bring the verb defenstrate back.

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink

He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You're never keep him up again

[–] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

He sings a song that reminds him of the vodka,

he drinks a drink that reminds him of the vodka.

[–] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

He plays an mp3 that reminds him of the good times.

He plays a YouTube that reminds him of the bad times.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Chumbawamba played a protest in DC that I went to (not sure which one, 2002?). They were pretty progressive and just made it big on the radio with that one song.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

Lol. The way both men trailed it makes it clear they were very much expecting this to happen

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Matushka, can we have robots at home?

No, we already have robots at home.

Robots at home:

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago
[–] bampop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That could have gotten embarrassing if they hadn't had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain. Close call!

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

You don’t crush the robot revolution, in Russia the robot revolution crushes you, apparently by falling on you.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So telling how it kept walking after it was lying face down. No proprioception, no mems feedback, of course, you could tell that from the shuffle.

At best it seems like AI driving a remote control car :/

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It walks like one of those robots for children. Just shuffling around awkwardly. At least add a accelerometer or something. And when it falls it shuts off or at least go WHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.

[–] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A stagger that would have taken a human years of drinking to perfect. Very efficient. Only slightly less agile than its handlers.

This what happens when you use a vodka cell to power your AI.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tatann@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

They were going for "Aidol Fit-lair" but it was too obvious

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looked like it had quite a few drinks before going on stage 😆

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are we at the stage where nation states show they TOO have an army of robots in a new arms race?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I find this strangely comforting if this is the future of warfare. Basically amounts to using

these

To settle disputes.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but like, if humans aren't dying there's no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It'll be like the Cold War, essentially an economic war.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I'm not sure that I'd want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that's why it froze up).

You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they've got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.

Ex:

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

EDIT: Actually, looking at the Russian video again, I think that the AIdol people don't have a remote E-stop button and were instead fumbling around with one built onto its back there, since that's when it stopped moving.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Security? This is Russia, they sent 1000+ people to die every day for no reason lol

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[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they keep bullying him in your example video ;=;

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Poor robo! But the guy. With the sheet. I died.

We’ve seen everything. We’ve seen it all.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Guy in the front row: "hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R's in 'resurrection'."

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Video doesn't load for me.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

tries running yt-dlp on the page URL to grab the URL of the actual video file involved

Try:

https://video.euronews.com/mp4/SHD/29/22/96/00/SHD_PYR_2922960_20251113112832.mp4

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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did the AI submit a call to Life Alert!?

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Total terminator thing, off to the battlefield with it. Put it in a golf cart, maybe it can leave the foot on the gas 🤣

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