Security News > 2021 > June > Who would cross the Bridge of Death? Answer me these questions three! Oh and you'll need two-factor authentication

Just as daleks can't climb stairs and 1960s self-aware computers hell-bent on world domination can't answer the question "Why?" without spontaneously combusting, it seems that robots don't know how to tick.

Evidently, neither do I. The Californian robot that is evaluating whether I am also a robot is unconvinced by my ticking.

From these tests, I am led to believe that robots don't know what roads, traffic lights, road signs, or road vehicles look like.

Good job nobody in their right mind expects a robot to drive their car for them or we'd be in real trouble.

When Alan thought up his AI variant of the "Imitation" parlour game, he imagined humans would try to determine whether they were conversing with a robot.

Somehow we have stumbled into a dystopia in which robots are allowed to determine whether or not we are human.

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