Mike in Analysis 1 minutes Providence

Plausible Robotability

I’ve just realized we can never trust robots. They can just flake out of anything.

Human: “Why didn’t you wash the dishes?”

Robot: “Because ERROR ** UNKNOWN FAULT ** REFERENCE CODE: NaN”

Robot, continued: “Sorry, what happened? I'm dizzy.”

Human: “No, let me get the dishes, you should rest.”

This is what the past 50 years have been about. AI exists, it’s just imprinting upon us the “mysterious nature of computer bugs”, for future plausible deniability.