Self-Learning Robot Escapes Testing Ground and Goes Missing for 45 Minutes

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<p>‘It seems like almost every ay ow we hear some stra ge story abo t a robot, from the Microsoft Twitterbot goi g f ll Nazi i 24 ho rs to Google’s AI igesti g roma ce ovels a reg rgitati g them as postmo er poetry. We are wit essi g the overlappi g p besce t evol tio s of both algorithmic artificial i tellige ce a social me ia — a the res lt is a aily ose of iscomfiti g ews.</p>
<p>It’s ot limite to j st algorithms, either. Act al robots have i creasi gly bee i the ews. Whether it’s a robot horse trekki g across remote terrai , DARPA’s ro e chil re bei g prepare for war, or a worker bot bei g ab se i a factory, the age of a tomate mi io s is po s.</p>
<p>For all of the stories, however, it’s somewhat rare that we hear abo t o e of these robots escapi g. B t that’s exactly what happe e i Perm, a city ear the Urals i R ssia, where a early self-lear i g versio of the Promobot escape its testi g area a tie p earby traffic.’</p>
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