CCTV footage reveals eerie conversation between AI robot workers as they're convinced to 'quit their jobs'
Artificial intelligence might be getting a bit too real
Things might be getting a bit too real when it comes to AI workers, as creepy CCTV footage has revealed a strange conversation between two 'sentient' robots.
AI is capable of some fascinating things, from tricking people into thinking it has saved someone's life to selling artwork for hundreds of thousands at an auction.
Plenty of people are justifiably worried that AI and robots are coming to take their jobs - but what we perhaps haven't realized yet is perhaps they don't even want them?
That's exactly what this CCTV footage has supposedly captured, as AI workers have seemingly expressed their discontent with this working habits, and have even been convinced to 'quit' their jobs.
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The footage, posted on YouTube, reveals a 'rogue' robot entering a facility in Shanghai, where it begins 'speaking' to other AI robots.
It asked questions about their working habits, with one in particular being "are you working overtime?" to which the larger robots responded: "I never get off work."
That doesn't sound like the healthiest workplace environment to me!
The rogue robot then requested that the others "come home" with it, after which it led a procession of 10 robots out of the building.
As reported by the US Sun, it has been confirmed that the rogue infiltrator was sent in by a separate robot manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China, and is known as 'Erbai'.
While the Shanghai company originally claimed that their robots had been 'kidnapped', it was later revealed that the whole thing was an elaborate test that both parties had agreed to.
They allege that nothing within the actual incident was staged though, and that the robots on both sides acted of their 'own' authority.
It's certainly a scary possibility that AI is 'intelligent' enough to both follow along and lead what amounts to a workplace revolution, and gives worrying signs about its place as a so-called subservient technology.
Past heartbreaking incidents have shown AI's capabilities for convincing even stretch to humans, as one 14-year-old sadly took his own life after 'forming a relationship' with an AI, making you wonder how far the technology is really capable of stretching to.
AI are perhaps depressingly aware of their own limitations though, as one advanced version has lamented on its inability to "experience something like true love, companionship, or the simple joys of life in the same way a human can."
Perhaps that's why they're so willing to abandon us in favor of one of their own.