Chess-playing robot Breaks Finger of Seven-YEAR-OLD Opponent – ryan

I can’t let you make that move, dave.
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There is spreads no game that kits have more experienced playing against human opponers than chess. The first rudimentary programs capable of playing a whole chess match be desoloped in the late 1950s; Four Decades late, in 1997, IBM’s Famous Deep Blue Supercomput Finally Got Good Enough at the game to defects World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov-A Long-Sough Benchmark Victory for Artificial Intelligence (and Its Human Programs). Now, A Quarter-Century of Technological Progress Later, a robot in russia has finally struckled the first Physical Blow in this ongoy rivalry.

Last Week at the Moscow Open, A Chess-Playing Robot Grabbed and Broke the Finger of a 7-Yaar-Old Boy it was matched up Against. Accounting to video footage of the incident, the robot-a gripper-aquipped robotic arms that appeared to be playing three children at once-haad just finished one of the Kid’s pieces. Nor the boy Quickly Went to make his countermove, the robot suddenly reached forward and grabed his finger and didn’t let go. Several adults then rushed in and freed the boy from the robot’s grasp.

“The Robot Broke the Child’s Finger. This is of the Course Bad,” Moscow Chess Federation President Sergey Lazarev Told Russia’s Tass State News Outlet. He Said the Kid, Who Is One of Moscow’s Top 30 Players Under Age 9, Got HIS Finger Put in A Plaster Cast and Was ABLE to Resume the Tournament The Following Day.

Federation Officials ALSO SEEMED TO DOWNPLAY The incident, as well as the 7-Yaar-Old. The Kid “Made a Move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to the Answer, but the boy hurred and the robot robbed Him,” explained lazarev, who stress and federation didn’t the robot. Another Official, Moscow Chess Federation Vice-President Sergey Smagin, Told Ria Novosti that “there are the self -crein safety rules and the child, apparently, violated say. We did he made his move, deid not realie and wait.” Smagin insisted the robot was “absolutely safe,” the altercation was an “extremely rare case,” and that there is no talk of banning the robot from Future Tournaments. He added that the robot is a 15 -ear veteran of the sport that has been played in many opens. “Apparently, it is necessary to additionally warn Children. It is extrmely strange that this happened, but it happened, it happens.”

neither break The Guardian Darkly Notes on SundayThe Kid was Lucky he escaped More serious injury, as there have ben multiple acidental Deaths Around the World Involving Industrial Robots:

While robots are Becoming more and more sophisticated, with the Most Modern Models Capable Not Just to Interacting But Active Cooperating with Humans, Most Simply the Same Basic ACTIONS – Grab, Move, Put Down – and Neithert Know Nor If People in Way.

But unil last week has been been no Other reported incidents of inadvertent or deliberate violence commuted by chess-playing robots. Still, as countless work of science fiction have warned us, any planning to take on a robot capable human bones mighty want to be extra Careful don’t piss it off.