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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.
They just told the robot it got drafted.
I'd almost created a new account to upvote you again
The dude trying to cover it up with the piece of cloth at the end was chef's kiss.
Almost makes it believable if they call it a haha funny comedy act as a cover up.
Yeah, the frantic amateurishness could not have been better choreographed
It's too late! I saw everything.
I like to call it the "Don't embarrass comrade Putin curtain"
Someone's getting defenestrated over this
The best thing Putin has done is to bring the verb defenstrate back.
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
He sings a song that reminds him of the vodka,
he drinks a drink that reminds him of the vodka.
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.
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.
Security? This is Russia, they sent 1000+ people to die every day for no reason lol
I mean, yeah, but that's wartime policy. Like, most countries are willing to take more risks and accept more costs if they consider is necessary to fight a war.
But as far as I know, doing this demo successfully isn't something that Russia needs for any kind of war purposes.
It is very much needed for their war propaganda. They need to show the citizens and the world, that despite all the sanctions they are still able to achieve and match technological advancements of the west. The war fatigue is serious issue in Russia. But obviously they failed miserably and I love that the sanctions are actually putting them behind.
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they keep bullying him in your example video ;=;
There's some company that has done some CGI videos making fun of the Boston Dynamics use of a hockey stick for separation, do videos that have humans pretending to be Boston Dynamics people abusing a CGI robot.
kagis
Corridor Digital, as "Bosstown Dynamics":
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22bosstown+dynamics%22
e.g.:
Poor robo! But the guy. With the sheet. I died.
We’ve seen everything. We’ve seen it all.
Are we at the stage where nation states show they TOO have an army of robots in a new arms race?
I find this strangely comforting if this is the future of warfare. Basically amounts to using
To settle disputes.
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.
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 :/
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.
If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.
Guy in the front row: "hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R's in 'resurrection'."
Lol. The way both men trailed it makes it clear they were very much expecting this to happen
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.
Vodkabot.
Looked like it had quite a few drinks before going on stage 😆
It really is Russian
The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.
Aidol? Really?
They were going for "Aidol Fit-lair" but it was too obvious
Matushka, can we have robots at home?
No, we already have robots at home.
Robots at home:
That could have gotten embarrassing if they hadn't had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain. Close call!
Total terminator thing, off to the battlefield with it. Put it in a golf cart, maybe it can leave the foot on the gas 🤣
You don’t crush the robot revolution, in Russia the robot revolution crushes you, apparently by falling on you.
Created in its maker's image
It was walking so smooth untill it tripped. I'm sure a minor software patch will fix that.
You really don't realize how quickly you can debug until your office mate gets pushed out a window.
Anyone have a link where I can watch this without allowing the website and their 194 partners access to my info?
Did the AI submit a call to Life Alert!?
What the hell is this website? Every time I press play it just takes me to a different video.
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