Incident 241: Chess-Playing Robot Broke Child's Finger in Russia
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GMF Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal
Robotic Manipulation
Potential AI Technology
Convolutional Neural Network, Visual Object Detection
Known AI Technical Failure
Lack of Capability Control
Potential AI Technical Failure
Generalization Failure, Underspecification
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A damaged ego is usually the worst injury a chess player can come out of a match with. But in Russia, a seven-year-old child playing with a robot was forced to interrupt the game when the machine suddenly snapped one his fingers, breaking i…
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According to the organizers of the tournament in the Russian capital, it was an “accidental” attack by the robot. A seven-year-old boy named Christopher, who, by the way, according to them, is among the top 30 chess players in Moscow under …
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Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.
Last week, according to Russian m…
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During a tournament in Moscow, a chess-playing robot fractured a 7-year-old boy's finger when the youngster attempted a quick move without giving the device enough time to finish its task. On July 19, at the Moscow Chess Open competition, t…
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A chess-playing robot broke the finger of a 7-year-old boy who was competing against it during a recent tournament in Moscow.
According to officials from the Moscow Chess Federation, the child continued his participation in the event after …