I suppose this was bound to happen sooner or later. As our technological overlords continue to create increasingly autonomous Artificial Intelligence and begin combining it with alarmingly realistic, human-looking robots, one of them was eventually going to start getting a little “frisky,” right? That may or may not be what happened at a recent technology festival in Saudi Arabia, but it’s certainly what it looked like. A female reporter was filming a segment featuring an autonomous robot named “Mohamad” and speaking to the camera when the robot suddenly raised its hand and either grabbed or stroked her butt, for lack of a better term. The reporter looked briefly startled and moved away from the robot but then bravely soldiered on with her report. This definitely raises a number of questions as to just what was going on at that moment, however. (NY Post)
A “fully autonomous” AI…
