Actually I believe in the instance you described the programming would call for a notification being sent to a supervisor. Programming a robot to alert when unusual circumstances are encountered is easy enough to do.
“Programming a robot to alert when unusual circumstances are encountered is easy enough to do.”
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That doesn’t help much, because ‘unexpected’ means ‘unexpected’. You can’t write a conditional if-then statement for ‘X’, as it’s undefined by it’s very nature.
I bet Westworld figured they had all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed - think of it - Yul Brenner running amok in a Whole Foods store!
...on second thought, that’d actually make a great movie!