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I love this so much. I'd love to find one with sound. In the meantime I'm just watching this over and over humming the Rocky theme.

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 124 points 2 months ago

Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.

One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 76 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They just told the robot it got drafted.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd almost created a new account to upvote you again

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The dude trying to cover it up with the piece of cloth at the end was chef's kiss.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Almost makes it believable if they call it a haha funny comedy act as a cover up.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the frantic amateurishness could not have been better choreographed

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's too late! I saw everything.

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone's getting defenestrated over this

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 18 points 2 months ago

The best thing Putin has done is to bring the verb defenstrate back.

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink

He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You're never keep him up again

[–] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He sings a song that reminds him of the vodka,

he drinks a drink that reminds him of the vodka.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Chumbawamba played a protest in DC that I went to (not sure which one, 2002?). They were pretty progressive and just made it big on the radio with that one song.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I'm not sure that I'd want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that's why it froze up).

You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they've got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.

Ex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwekersccY

EDIT: Actually, looking at the Russian video again, I think that the AIdol people don't have a remote E-stop button and were instead fumbling around with one built onto its back there, since that's when it stopped moving.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Security? This is Russia, they sent 1000+ people to die every day for no reason lol

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[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they keep bullying him in your example video ;=;

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Poor robo! But the guy. With the sheet. I died.

We’ve seen everything. We’ve seen it all.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we at the stage where nation states show they TOO have an army of robots in a new arms race?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I find this strangely comforting if this is the future of warfare. Basically amounts to using

these

To settle disputes.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but like, if humans aren't dying there's no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It'll be like the Cold War, essentially an economic war.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So telling how it kept walking after it was lying face down. No proprioception, no mems feedback, of course, you could tell that from the shuffle.

At best it seems like AI driving a remote control car :/

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It walks like one of those robots for children. Just shuffling around awkwardly. At least add a accelerometer or something. And when it falls it shuts off or at least go WHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Guy in the front row: "hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R's in 'resurrection'."

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, a lot of people probably thought everything was fine and didn't even seen the gaff thanks to the curtain guy's quick thinking.

I do wonder if they should first work on an Ai driven automated curtain though before making the next AIDOL, you really can't trust that every curtain guy will have such catlike Reflexes.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

Lol. The way both men trailed it makes it clear they were very much expecting this to happen

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looked like it had quite a few drinks before going on stage 😆

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tatann@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

They were going for "Aidol Fit-lair" but it was too obvious

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Matushka, can we have robots at home?

No, we already have robots at home.

Robots at home:

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Video doesn't load for me.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

tries running yt-dlp on the page URL to grab the URL of the actual video file involved

Try:

https://video.euronews.com/mp4/SHD/29/22/96/00/SHD_PYR_2922960_20251113112832.mp4

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I just found it on YouTube thank though. Think it didn't want to work because I rejected all its cookies.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Me neither.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That could have gotten embarrassing if they hadn't had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain. Close call!

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Total terminator thing, off to the battlefield with it. Put it in a golf cart, maybe it can leave the foot on the gas 🤣

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

You don’t crush the robot revolution, in Russia the robot revolution crushes you, apparently by falling on you.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was walking so smooth untill it tripped. I'm sure a minor software patch will fix that.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

You really don't realize how quickly you can debug until your office mate gets pushed out a window.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Created in its maker's image

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did the AI submit a call to Life Alert!?

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Anyone have a link where I can watch this without allowing the website and their 194 partners access to my info?

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