One vertical I have found myself occupying fairly frequently as of late is the artificial intelligence debate and whether we are all doomed to an eternity of servitude under our robot overlords.Participants chat in front of an electronic image of a soldier before the closing session of the Responsible AI in the Military Domain summit in Seoul on Sept.10, 2024.
The summit agreed in a non-binding declaration that humans, not artificial intelligence, should make key decisions regarding nuclear weapons.(Jung Yeon-je/AFP)Yes, much like the guy standing on the corner brandishing the "End Is Near" sign, I have tried my best to warn you all that AI is coming for us all in the end, and earlier this week I received a much-needed piece of validation from China.A robot adorned with a clown wig was putting on quite the martial arts demonstration at a popular tourist destination in Xinjiang, when a young onlooker almost became an unwilling victim of the upcoming war between humans and AI.CHINESE ROBOT'S KUNG FU MOVES WILL MAKE YOUR JAW DROPFirst and foremost, as was first reported by Shanghai Daily, the child was not seriously injured, so if your first instinct was to fear retribution for laughing at the visual of a humanoid robot doing a Rex-Kwan-Do routine in a clown wig and rocking some little kid in the chest, then worry not.He's fine!I also love the immediate reaction from Jack-AI Chan after making hard contact with the kid's diaphragm.APOCALYPSE NOW? WHY THE MEDIA ARE SUDDENLY FREAKING OUT ABOUT AIAn AI humanoid activates and moves its head to scan documents in a computer-generated image.
(iStock)It looks like a toddler that just got caught with its hand in the cookie jar, standing perfectly still before realizing what it had done and taking a few steps back before a nervous little dance.I thought that sequence looked familiar, because it's basically what my two-year-old son does every time he knows he did something wrong.ZERO BS.JUST DAKICH.
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