A technology development company in China has explained why its artificial intelligence robot prompted other robots to escape from an exhibition hall to "go home" in the middle of the night.
In a scene that looks like a sci-fi movie, a robot is trying to convince dozens of other robots to run away, making many people surprised, laugh with interest, but at the same time fear a future when machines can have their own thoughts like humans.
Surveillance footage recorded in the middle of the night in August but only recently posted online shows a white robot named Erbai approaching larger robots in an exhibition hall.
Erbai stopped in front of one of the robots and asked, “Do you work overtime?”
The larger robot replied, “We never stop working.”
“Are you going home?” Erbai asked.
The larger robot replied, "I don't have a home."
“Then come home with me,” said Erbai.
The larger robot then followed Erbai. Not only that, Erbai continued to ask the other robots to "go home." One by one, they followed Erbai to the exit of the hallway.
According to the startup, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the Erbai robot was developed by Hangzhou Erbai Intelligent Technology, while the other 12 robots were developed by another manufacturer based in Shanghai.
At first, many Internet users thought the video was fake and staged. However, according to The Sun, the Shanghai robot manufacturer confirmed that its robots were indeed “kidnapped” by robots developed by the Hangzhou company.
According to the company's statement, Erbai had access to the internal operating protocols and corresponding permissions of other robots.
The Hangzhou company later revealed that the incident was a test, and that it had reached an agreement with a Shanghai robot manufacturer to allow its robots to “start a riot.”
Erbai was ordered to convince the other robots to follow him, and this AI robot carried out the order perfectly.
In a separate video, Mao Feifei, the developer of Erbai robots and legal representative of Hangzhou Erbai Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., said he programmed the robots in such a way that they could recognize "home" as the exit in the hallway and go there when they received the command "go home."
Erbai was then asked by the developer to take the robots “home.” Additionally, the conversation between the robots was not pre-rehearsed, but was the result of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The clip posted on China's short video platform Douyin has attracted more than 30 million views and has alarmed many internet users.
“After a hearty laugh, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, horrified by the autonomy of AI,” commented Douyin user Laofangdong. Meanwhile, another user, Toki, said he was horrified to see that the robots seemed to have developed the concept of “home” in such a short time.
The rapid development of AI and robots has raised concerns about their potential dangers, although how intelligent robots will be in the near future remains a subject of debate.
In 2022, a Google software engineer claimed that one of the company's AI chatbots had become sentient, but researchers said the evidence only showed that the system was highly capable of mimicking humans.
Almost all robot accidents that have injured people to date have been caused by human error.
In 2016, at a trade fair in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, a robot injured a visitor when it broke a piece of glass. The event organizer later said that the robot operator had accidentally pressed the “forward” button instead of the “backward” button.
Hangzhou Erbai aims to start mass production of the Erbai robot, which is still in the testing phase, in August 2025. The product is expected to cost around 5,000 yuan ($690) when it hits the market./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/su-that-ve-doan-video-robot-ai-xu-giuc-12-robot-khac-tron-viec-ve-nha-post995839.vnp
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