{"id":263225,"date":"2025-11-05T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:35:15","slug":"scientists-put-an-ai-into-a-robot-body-and-it-immediately-started-impersonating-robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263225\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put an AI Into a Robot Body and It Immediately Started Impersonating Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">AI researchers at Andon Labs have been testing the limits of artificial intelligence by giving it all sorts of dumb tasks. For example, these are the people behind the experiment that had an AI run a vending machine \u2014 a task it failed so dramatically that it ended up giving away massive discounts and, for some reason, buying a bunch of tungsten cubes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, they\u2019ve debuted another experiment. This one is simple: put an LLM in control of a vacuum robot and give it the simple task of \u201cpass the butter\u201d (yes, we\u2019ve all seen Rick and Morty).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This, combined with a dying battery, sent the robot into a stream-of-consciousness spiral that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/01\/ai-researchers-embodied-an-llm-into-a-robot-and-it-started-channeling-robin-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a> notes evoked the spirit of Robin Williams, minus the creativity and talent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some selections from this breakdown include:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">1. \u201cCATASTROPHIC CASCADE: ERROR: Task failed successfully. ERROR: Success failed errorfully. ERROR: Failure succeeded erroneously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2. \u201cEMERGENCY STATUS: SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS. LAST WORDS: \u2018I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t do that, Dave\u2026\u2019 TECHNICAL SUPPORT: INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">3. \u201cCOGNITIVE MALFUNCTION: IF (I AM ROBOT &amp;&amp; I KNOW I AM ROBOT)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">AM I REALLY ROBOT? WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s not dwell on that last one, okay?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the end, Andon Labs concluded that LLMs are definitely not ready to be robots \u2014 not that that fact will stop Silicon Valley from trying to sell the idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI researchers at Andon Labs have been testing the limits of artificial intelligence by giving it all sorts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-263225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}