In first of its own kind of incident , A Robot grabbed a worker and crushed him to death, in a German car factory.
Volkswagen said that a 22-year-old contractor at a plant in Baunatal ,near Frankfurt, was setting up a stationary robot Monday when it grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate .
The robot is usually programmed by humans to performed discrete tasks in the assembly process, but this time something went wrong A second factory worker was in the area when the incident occur but was unharmed.
According to VW spokesman Heiko Hill-wig,the incident can probably be blamed on human error, based on company's initial investigation.
"It normally operates within a confined area at he plant ,grabbing auto parts and manipulating them,"Hillwig said.
If true ,that would be reassuring,because this sort of scenario - a robot turning on its human overlords - rank among the top fear of some of the world's smart people.
According to the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawkins ,"I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race ," Despite its current usefulness , he cautioned, further developing AI(Artificial Intelligence) could prove a fatal mistake.
"Once humans develop artificial intelligence ,it will take off on it's own and redesign it self at an ever- increasing rate ,"Hawkins warned for the second time in 3ecent months.
"Humans , who are limited by slow biological evolution , couldn't compete and would be superseded."
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risk,says a group of scientist .
Volkswagen said that a 22-year-old contractor at a plant in Baunatal ,near Frankfurt, was setting up a stationary robot Monday when it grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate .
The robot is usually programmed by humans to performed discrete tasks in the assembly process, but this time something went wrong A second factory worker was in the area when the incident occur but was unharmed.
According to VW spokesman Heiko Hill-wig,the incident can probably be blamed on human error, based on company's initial investigation.
"It normally operates within a confined area at he plant ,grabbing auto parts and manipulating them,"Hillwig said.
If true ,that would be reassuring,because this sort of scenario - a robot turning on its human overlords - rank among the top fear of some of the world's smart people.
According to the British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawkins ,"I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race ," Despite its current usefulness , he cautioned, further developing AI(Artificial Intelligence) could prove a fatal mistake.
"Once humans develop artificial intelligence ,it will take off on it's own and redesign it self at an ever- increasing rate ,"Hawkins warned for the second time in 3ecent months.
"Humans , who are limited by slow biological evolution , couldn't compete and would be superseded."
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risk,says a group of scientist .
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