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This article is based on a very poor translation of an announcement put out by owners of the robot on social media site. As per the russian news site that cove

This article is based on a very poor translation of an announcement put out by owners of the robot on social media site. As per the russian news site that covered this: - robot was hired by the campaign to "agitate" (e.g. play loud political messages) for the candidate to passers by as they exited a subway stop in moscow. - police arrived on scene and asked the organizers to move the robot farther away from the path of the people. Based on above, the owners put out a press release claiming the robot was "almost arrested" and announced that between the original "escape from proving grounds" 2 weeks ago and this, the robot "must now be destroyed ... because it got too smart". Pretty good marketing campaign, but definitely not an AI breakthrough :) edit: format

guessmyname 10y ago
Ha ha this makes more sense. In fact, I didn't even read the article nor watched the video, but immediately upon the load of the page I noticed the name of the robot: "Promobot" and I immediately jumped to the conclusion that either the article or the incident was some sort of PR. It reminded me of the film "I, Robot" [1] where a AI-powered machine supposedly breaks the three laws of robotics [2]. I wonder if this will happen in the not-so-far future. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics