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There they sat, in front of a machine no more soulful than a hair dryer, a machine they knew intellectually was just a collection of electrical pulses and metal, and yet they paused. And while eventually every participant killed the robot, it took them time to intellectually override their emotional queasiness — in the case of a helpful cat robot, around 35 seconds before they were able to complete the switching-off procedure. How long does it take you to switch off your stereo? Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
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I don't understand what's going on here?
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What don't you understand?
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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The 'test subjects' were instructed to interact with the robot and evaluate the robots performance on a task.
If the robot made too many mistakes, they were instructed to make it switch himself off.
What they didn't knew is that the robot would then beg the user not to shut him off because that would erase his memory and he would "die".
The actual test was to see whether they feel empathy towards the AI.
If so, they would at least hesitate before shutting it down.
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