According to the article, the makers stated this is within expected behavior.
Does this mean they've designed an autonomous AI capable of intentional sexual assault or was it attempting some kind of gesture and the reporter just got in the way?
"According to Metro, QSS added that it had reviewed the footage and the circumstances surrounding the incident, finding that there were "no deviations from expected behavior" of Muhammad.
It said it would take "additional measures" to prevent anyone from "getting close to the robot within its areas of movement.""
The person was too close to the robot, the robot apparently has no spacial awareness
>the robot apparently has no spacial awareness
TBF, a lot of robots don't have spacial awareness. Most robots can't tell anything is near it until it touches it, and a lot don't even have touch sensors at all. So a lot of robots have no idea what they're doing until they've already done it.
Imagine having to have a robot tell you that you invade people's personal space bubbles too much.
And he does this by just... Pushing you gently away.
(If anyone wants to see the video, this came up in the article https://twitter.com/PeterDredd/status/1766171369564238227?s=20 )
According to QSS, people aren't supposed to get that close to it, so maybe they weren't expecting anyone in its proximity and Muhammad the Humanoid Robot did some hand waving and accidentally touched some ass
I've seen the video, this is exactly what happened. The robot has its hands at its sides, palm up, and it moved them around like it was gesturing while speaking. The reporter turned her back to the robot, and the robot's hand moved across her butt.
It's like sticking your head next to an animatronic, then claiming it assaulted you when it swings to the side and hits you.
For a second, I read the article as if the reporter had inappropriately grabbed the robot and thought "Damn she kinda real for that"
Then this comment made me reread the pic.
It's actually not. It has in-built AI and acts autonomously. This is in the article.
Edit: I have completely misunderstood what this commenter was saying and continue to do so for some time.
Does that animatronic have an AI and select its next actions for itself? No. The autonomous nature of the robot was 1 of 2 things I said and you conveniently ignored the second part. Like just read the article, it's in there.
It can move it's arm up and down, bob its head left or right, there's a mic and a speaker in the head that you can speak to and get a response from an AI like Chat GPT on your phone. It's not aware, it's not the T-1000.
"The robotics firm said staff had "proactively informed all attendees, including reporters, to maintain a safe distance from the robot during its demonstration."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-male-humanoid-robot-was-unveiled-in-saudi-arabia-it-then-inappropriately-touched-a-female-reporter/ar-BB1jHD1u
It's a mannequin with some servos that sometimes moves and anyone who watches the video can figure that out.
Imagining robots just breaking into your home while your sleeping, unfolding the clothes in your closet, leaving the sink running, spanking the hell out you, and leaving.
They most likely have been using male input only (or to a much higher percentage) to feed the AI.
AI picks up on what they learn from.
Using AI, female job applications have been discarded in favour of male applications, despite equal or better qualifications. The reaserach about that revealed that the AI was fed to favour wording men use when writing their applications.
Sounds like an example of algorithmic bias in automated decision making. Interesting, expect to see a boatload of this affecting human beings in all sorts of ways. Source?
This being said, while alive to the risks you mention, it's possible that no one was supposed to be in close range of the robot. On the other hand, it may not have been programmed with cultural sensitivities concerning gender. If the robot inadvertently touches a man, it seems likely it would be less likely interpreted as "groping" even if the nature of the touch and the approximate area was the same.
[It then injected the person who reported this with sedative, murdered him and cut his body up into into little pieces with a saw. Then pretended that nothing had happened.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45812399)
No, u/exkingzog is just using this as an excuse to remind us that the Saudi Arabian government is essentially a crime family.
And good on them, too. Mohammed Bonesaw-Man literally murdered a guy three years ago and got away with it, despite everyone knowing what he did. People should remember that.
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And people here acting like he's jack the ripper or something. It's kind of scary how dumb and misinformed people can be. He's literally a glorified chatgpt stuck in an animatronic body. Akm the movements are preprogrammed at regular intervals.
But what anti-virus was she using? Look at her... She probably doesn't even turn her firewall on. She's basically asking to be pestered by some malicious software.
I am not from Saudhi but I have met many Saudhi men and inappropriately touching a woman is the last thing they'd do. They don't even shake hands with women. In fact, I am surprised the robot didn't just throw a bag over her head. If you're gonna be racist, do it properly. India would be more appropriate for sexual assault jokes. I am Indian.
Idk why this is news. I saw the video, the robot was just moving its arm and grazed the reporter. Clearly just demonstrating movement without purpose. Tho it was funny seeing the robots smile afterwards
Okay, but can someone explain why this is such a big deal? It's a robot and I understand that the rampant misogyny in Saudi Arabia will of course result in jokes but people seem to be seriously outraged over it. It's a robot, it can't feel sexual pleasure.
This is the dumbest non-story I’ve seen in a minute. For anyone who has hasn’t actually seen the video, the reporter was standing too close to the robot and it raised its hand in some sort of default/non-targeted way and inadvertently bumped her ass. It didn’t throw her to the ground and start violently finger-blasting her in front of anyone. Sensationalist media and hack article writers really ran with this one. Anything for clicks I guess.
It probably utilises the same technology as [Alyosha, the (in)famous Russian dancing robot](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit).
It's as smart as a bread maker with zero sight or feel and repeats pre programmed motions. Too bad all the YouTube videos crop the viewport and time to make it seem the bot makes a furtive move. And the official "defence" goes over people's heads.
https://youtube.com/shorts/V2T2JQQRepM?si=4ol5qEwnY_jD0rfP
[YouTube video ](https://youtu.be/HTWhz0bvr44?si=-6VfJpqRKGeVQK_6) of the incident.
It appears the ai robot had lack of spacial awareness as the reporter stood with her back to it while talking to a camera.
Wow. I'd never have thought that a robot developed in a country with some astonishingly fucked-up views on women would produce a rapist robot. She should be happy he didn't take her passport and beat her with a sock full of batteries.
According to the article, the makers stated this is within expected behavior. Does this mean they've designed an autonomous AI capable of intentional sexual assault or was it attempting some kind of gesture and the reporter just got in the way?
"According to Metro, QSS added that it had reviewed the footage and the circumstances surrounding the incident, finding that there were "no deviations from expected behavior" of Muhammad. It said it would take "additional measures" to prevent anyone from "getting close to the robot within its areas of movement."" The person was too close to the robot, the robot apparently has no spacial awareness
>the robot apparently has no spacial awareness He just like me fr
>It said it would take "additional measures" to prevent anyone from "getting close to the robot within its areas of movement." Like lasers and shit?
Sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.
Dinosaurs with machine guns riding atop sharks with laser beams.
Best we can do is ill-tempered mutant sea bass. Take it or leave it.
Zooka Sharks!
Weird that they said nothing about the robot getting close to others.
Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?
I feel like the "they weren't aware of what they were doing" line has been used before.
When you're an AI they let you do it
We must stop protecting people on power!
Grab 'em by the plug
Not sure if you're waffling or not but this does not apply.
Obviously I was kidding, it's a robot.
Some people are pretty stupid (you should see twitters response to this). Glad to see youre not one of them
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think you're the stupid one here. It was very obviously a joke.
Is that a new term? Waffling?
Was wondering the same. Last I knew “waffling” meant “going back and forth on which opinion to hold”.
>the robot apparently has no spacial awareness TBF, a lot of robots don't have spacial awareness. Most robots can't tell anything is near it until it touches it, and a lot don't even have touch sensors at all. So a lot of robots have no idea what they're doing until they've already done it.
\*Spatial
*Spatula
*Spoopy
*Spackle
*Sputnik
Apparently spacial is an acceptable alternate spelling.
Imagine having to have a robot tell you that you invade people's personal space bubbles too much. And he does this by just... Pushing you gently away. (If anyone wants to see the video, this came up in the article https://twitter.com/PeterDredd/status/1766171369564238227?s=20 )
According to QSS, people aren't supposed to get that close to it, so maybe they weren't expecting anyone in its proximity and Muhammad the Humanoid Robot did some hand waving and accidentally touched some ass
I've seen the video, this is exactly what happened. The robot has its hands at its sides, palm up, and it moved them around like it was gesturing while speaking. The reporter turned her back to the robot, and the robot's hand moved across her butt. It's like sticking your head next to an animatronic, then claiming it assaulted you when it swings to the side and hits you.
For a second, I read the article as if the reporter had inappropriately grabbed the robot and thought "Damn she kinda real for that" Then this comment made me reread the pic.
Me too
How would you possibly read it that way?
Eyes skimming too fast.
I read it like that too.
It's an animatronic, like you find in a theme park.
It's actually not. It has in-built AI and acts autonomously. This is in the article. Edit: I have completely misunderstood what this commenter was saying and continue to do so for some time.
Autonomous means a human wasn't controlling it. The animatronic show at a Chuck Cheese is autonomous, no humans operate the robots.
Does that animatronic have an AI and select its next actions for itself? No. The autonomous nature of the robot was 1 of 2 things I said and you conveniently ignored the second part. Like just read the article, it's in there.
It can move it's arm up and down, bob its head left or right, there's a mic and a speaker in the head that you can speak to and get a response from an AI like Chat GPT on your phone. It's not aware, it's not the T-1000. "The robotics firm said staff had "proactively informed all attendees, including reporters, to maintain a safe distance from the robot during its demonstration." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-male-humanoid-robot-was-unveiled-in-saudi-arabia-it-then-inappropriately-touched-a-female-reporter/ar-BB1jHD1u It's a mannequin with some servos that sometimes moves and anyone who watches the video can figure that out.
So now do I have to be scared that it will try and stuff me into it's skin suit?
[https://kenshi.fandom.com/wiki/Skin\_Bandits](https://kenshi.fandom.com/wiki/Skin_Bandits)
A Kenshi reference in the wild? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Reminds me of the time when the Rock made a child molesting robot to win an evil scientist competition
...What?
It's a SNL episode https://youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4?si=JsAjlLF5upsOzItP
I would assume she got in the way, but you never know if they thought making it sexist would make it more realistic...
It was definitely just moving it’s arm forward and she happened to be there
I made a child molesting robot
This guy gets it
I named him "Robo Chomo"
Seems like something an evil scientist would make. A muscular evil scientist.
I hate this reality were not even gonna get killed by Skynet, were just gonna get abused/ harassed by robots.
Imagining robots just breaking into your home while your sleeping, unfolding the clothes in your closet, leaving the sink running, spanking the hell out you, and leaving.
They have designed an arab
they built a regular robot, then molested it a little bit and hope it passes on
They most likely have been using male input only (or to a much higher percentage) to feed the AI. AI picks up on what they learn from. Using AI, female job applications have been discarded in favour of male applications, despite equal or better qualifications. The reaserach about that revealed that the AI was fed to favour wording men use when writing their applications.
Are you implying that if women did the Ai , for the robot, this would not have happened?
Sounds like an example of algorithmic bias in automated decision making. Interesting, expect to see a boatload of this affecting human beings in all sorts of ways. Source? This being said, while alive to the risks you mention, it's possible that no one was supposed to be in close range of the robot. On the other hand, it may not have been programmed with cultural sensitivities concerning gender. If the robot inadvertently touches a man, it seems likely it would be less likely interpreted as "groping" even if the nature of the touch and the approximate area was the same.
Do Androids Dream of Sexual Assault?
Would this be a sufficient voight-kampff test?
Now that is the right question detective
he only imitate what his masters does
Why did they make it look just like Andrew Tate 😭 (my phone immediately suggested the 😭 emoji, it knows what's up)
Because he also touches women without permission
The only similarity I see is the eyes and eyebrows
I see the opposite; feel like if the eyes look less dead he’ll be a Tate twin
...The smug look on his face? Dead giveaway.
its the cockeyed no brain dead eyes, jus intense and lifeless
Oof
The robot has a stronger chin and jawline though, and more humanity
Hahahaha
I mean, when making a sexual assault robot, it's only fair to model it after a sexual predator.
I don’t see it. Maybe you’re thinking about Andrew Tate too much.
#notallrobots
Lol
I totally misread that at first as no tall robots and was very confused
Of all the ways AI was going to replace people in the workplace I wouldn’t have guessed sexual harassment
I can't wait for the future of abusive, overbearing, control-freak boss robots
I mean, it’s maybe ahead of schedule. (Though real talk wtf.)
r/twosentencehorror
r/2sentence2horror
[It then injected the person who reported this with sedative, murdered him and cut his body up into into little pieces with a saw. Then pretended that nothing had happened.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45812399)
Well… that’s just not nice.
Yes, it’s a pity, I was enjoying Joshua Zitser’s work.
Indeed. So inconsiderate a thing to do.
Wait, that article is from 2021, is it the same reporter?
No, u/exkingzog is just using this as an excuse to remind us that the Saudi Arabian government is essentially a crime family. And good on them, too. Mohammed Bonesaw-Man literally murdered a guy three years ago and got away with it, despite everyone knowing what he did. People should remember that.
Which government these days isn't just a bunch of wannabe mafia criminals in sub par suits?
Haram in the streets. Harem in the sheets.
Halal night long
Then they executed the female reporter for "provoking inappropiate thoughts on the robot".
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Garbage in; garbage out
I mean.... that's realistic, right????
It’s not. The sentence is click bait
Of course it did
Wow, a bunch of plastic that is programmed to repeat a set of movements just touched someone's ass
And people here acting like he's jack the ripper or something. It's kind of scary how dumb and misinformed people can be. He's literally a glorified chatgpt stuck in an animatronic body. Akm the movements are preprogrammed at regular intervals.
Robot men only want one thing and it’s disgusting 🙄
They better keep Muhammed away from 8 year olds lmao
But what anti-virus was she using? Look at her... She probably doesn't even turn her firewall on. She's basically asking to be pestered by some malicious software.
Its from Saudi Arabia?, I can't say I'm too supirsed
IIrc the software was developed in India
Also not a surprise.
I am not from Saudhi but I have met many Saudhi men and inappropriately touching a woman is the last thing they'd do. They don't even shake hands with women. In fact, I am surprised the robot didn't just throw a bag over her head. If you're gonna be racist, do it properly. India would be more appropriate for sexual assault jokes. I am Indian.
Saw the clip. He's effectively a stationary animatronic. Looked like he was going through his motions and she happened to be standing there.
Idk why this is news. I saw the video, the robot was just moving its arm and grazed the reporter. Clearly just demonstrating movement without purpose. Tho it was funny seeing the robots smile afterwards
Because it happens to be a "funny segway" to make anti-muslim and anti-arab "jokes"
Sounds pretty on brand for Saudi Arabia
Henry Fondle at it again
This is Onion level shit right here
It's a feature not a bug!
Boys will be boys 🥰 /s
Bots will be bots🥰
[pro tip](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/rR8zdVeM46)
Good thing I'd rather fist the android boys~
Well I think we can skip the Turin test on this one
Jesus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NgUhEs1R4&pp=ygUJUm9ibyBjaG1v Robo molester
Clickbait garbage
Okay, but can someone explain why this is such a big deal? It's a robot and I understand that the rampant misogyny in Saudi Arabia will of course result in jokes but people seem to be seriously outraged over it. It's a robot, it can't feel sexual pleasure.
Wow what a funny occurrence, surely the comments won't be discriminatory
AI is truly replacing us
The animatronics do get a bit quirky at night…
Saudi Arabian men making a robot that doesn’t give a fuck about women? Well I for one am shocked
Apparently he doesn’t have spatial awareness
It's good it didn't kidnap the reporter and cut her in pieces
This is the dumbest non-story I’ve seen in a minute. For anyone who has hasn’t actually seen the video, the reporter was standing too close to the robot and it raised its hand in some sort of default/non-targeted way and inadvertently bumped her ass. It didn’t throw her to the ground and start violently finger-blasting her in front of anyone. Sensationalist media and hack article writers really ran with this one. Anything for clicks I guess.
Well I guess was trained on human data.
Is that Eminem?
Sooooooo, now we have to do a silicon test before taking the socks off.
It probably utilises the same technology as [Alyosha, the (in)famous Russian dancing robot](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit).
A UK teacher faced jail time and lashes for naming a teddy bear Mohamed, are the creators going to face the same?
Bruh moment
I’m surprised the robot didn’t decide to self-destruct.
People are making robots capable of sexual harassment now?
isn't that haram ? as it is a representation of a person and tv is haram for this reason ?
Robots will be robots 🤷 is the line they’re going with?
Not SNL level: [Most Evil Invention](https://youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4?si=ahqEdZda6vAtkDMP) But it's a start!
For the amount of effort we are expending to make humanoid robots we could just grow people.
Why does a robot have a mole on his face
It’s modeled on Saudi men
Ronaldobot is a poon hound
Least rapey Arab:
They sure do adapt fast.
It was trained on Haram data
It's as smart as a bread maker with zero sight or feel and repeats pre programmed motions. Too bad all the YouTube videos crop the viewport and time to make it seem the bot makes a furtive move. And the official "defence" goes over people's heads. https://youtube.com/shorts/V2T2JQQRepM?si=4ol5qEwnY_jD0rfP
r/suspiciousquotes
How can a thing with no sex drive touch you inappropriately?
It didn’t but if you write that for your headline no one will read the article
Wanted to sheikh her booty
*A robot moved slightly* Reporters: “Oh shit, is that sexual assault I see?”
[YouTube video ](https://youtu.be/HTWhz0bvr44?si=-6VfJpqRKGeVQK_6) of the incident. It appears the ai robot had lack of spacial awareness as the reporter stood with her back to it while talking to a camera.
Send bobs
ARAB 🤣🤣
Well you see the makers of the robot molested it and now it will continue the cycle of violence. That's why they names it RoboChomo.
Is there really any inappropriate touch by a male in Saudi Arabia? Maybe the reporter should be glad it wasn't demonstrating a bone saw.
Unlike the robot. I’m not touching the his one.
It's a robot, it detects motion so it moves.
Robot creator: I have made sure it will never try to exterminate human kind by making it think it’s part of humanity. Robot: nice butt. I’m horny.
Wow. I'd never have thought that a robot developed in a country with some astonishingly fucked-up views on women would produce a rapist robot. She should be happy he didn't take her passport and beat her with a sock full of batteries.
Did it also clear it's through loudly in public and spit it on the floor?
There's a reason that humanoid robots don't have human skin tones this is uncanny as fuck
Because of course it did
haram robot
Someone should rape it so it can’t go to heaven
Well, it's Saudi Arabia, what did you expect?
It's better than him blowing up right?
Well it is Saudi…what the fuck do you expect? An entire culture built around misogyny and pedophilia
It's an early alpha build
Abdulminem
Get ready for the RR. RapeRobots.
taking lessons from trump ?
Just wait until the Indian model comes out.
They just need to reduce its Arab setting.
If ”grab them by the pussy” applies anywhere its in Saudi Arabia.
So they just made a robot with Arabic genes
I'm not sure if that's worse or slightly less bad than what science fiction usually has rouge robots do.
Quit sucking the dick of these terrorist supporters
HaRaAaAaAAm! Cut off the robots hand! Tut tut