Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant
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Re: Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant
#2It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"
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#3Singularity, the beginning.
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#4This is Hacker News. We know the difference between robotics and automation.
Industrial automation such as this has been killing absent minded technicians for years, as early as 1979:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8F...
Re: Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant
#5It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"
Why?
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#6It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"
Why?
Because the automation/robot that killed the worker is not capable of intention or even agency. "Baseball kills sportsgoer." "Golf ball kills jogger." "Mailbox kills commuter." These are sensationalist headlines that don't really mean anything. The story is in the "why".
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#7Singularity, the beginning.
Just got the name of the worker: John Connor