Posted on 07/25/2022 5:15:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match in Russia last week.
Video posted to social media of the incident shows the robot, which is playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents using a large mechanical arm, playing the young victim. The boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger. The robot did not appear to make any severe twisting or other movements after grabbing the finger, however.
Several adults rushed in soon after the incident and freed the boy's hand.
"The robot broke the child’s finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident. "This is of course bad."
"The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists. Apparently, the operators overlooked it. The child made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot," Lazarev continued.
According to The Guardian, Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation blamed the boy for the incident.
"There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait," Smagin said. "This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall," he added.
According to Lazarev, the boy was not phased by the incident and returned to play chess the next day with his finger in a cast.
Once you let go of a piece, you cannot move it back.
Robot was probably about to lose.
Well wookies have been known to tear arms out of sockets when they lose.
"There are certain safety rules and the child Ukraine, apparently, violated them. When he made his defensive move, he Zelinsky did not realize he first had to wait," Smagin said. "This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall," he added.
Electronic Bully! We need new laws!
AI? Pissed off robot?
Where was that, in the algorithm?
Now, the robot is going to take up driving.
This is how it always starts: small
Moron!
I, for one, welcome our new chess-playing overlords.
“Robot was probably about to lose.”
Hillary the robot.
That was in the Bad Sport subroutine.
Good article bad proofing
the boy was not phased (fazed) by the incident
Definition of faze transitive verb
: to disturb the composure of : DISCONCERT, DAUNT
Nothing fazed her.
Criticism did not seem to faze the writer.
Definition of phase
1: a particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes- phases of the moon
2a: a distinguishable part in a course, development, or cycle
the early phases of her career
b: an aspect or part (as of a problem) under consideration
3: the point or stage in a period of uniform circular motion, harmonic motion, or the periodic changes of any magnitude varying according to a simple harmonic law to which the rotation, oscillation, or variation has advanced from its standard position or assumed instant of starting
4: a homogeneous, physically distinct, and mechanically separable portion of matter present in a nonhomogeneous physicochemical system
5: an individual or subgroup distinguishably different in appearance or behavior from the norm of the group to which it belongs
The programming didn’t foresee this kind of action on the part of the boy. The programs followed their instructions. The program had no awareness or knowledge of “boy” “finger” “grab” “crack bone.”
Although the programmers may think they have covered every possibility, they usually haven’t, and the program acts in an unexpected way when faced with the real world.
I didn’t know SkyNet was Russian.
Good catch.
In other words...they didn’t specify functional safety requirements of the system.
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