Now I am going to have to buy a .50 cal rifle. No way my fat ass is going to outrun these things when they start to take over. Ooftah.
It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest.
August 17, 2021, 07:02 PM
parabellum
What are you going to do against, say, thirty of them? They don't feel pain, they don't feel fear. They have no moral perspective. They will do their best to do precisely what their AI programming tells them to do. They don't need to sleep or eat, just a quick recharge (perhaps, not even that). They don't need oxygen and they will be able to continue functioning in conditions which would kill biological organisms. They will be relentless.
August 17, 2021, 07:45 PM
6guns
Live on a boat maybe. I doubt they'd survive in water or be able to swim given their weight. But not many people live on their boats.
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August 17, 2021, 07:47 PM
Graniteguy
They need humans to program and service them. Those humans do experience fear, pain and need to sleep. Are you referring to a completely self sufficient AI world? In that case those robots are the least of my concerns.
August 17, 2021, 07:53 PM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by Graniteguy: Are you referring to a completely self sufficient AI world?
I'm referring to machines being used by humans. Of course these machines need a support system.
I'm not a science fiction fantasist. I'm saying- look at those things moving so precisely, and listen to them pounding on the floor and platform. They will surpass us in physical ability before you can blink and that's dangerous.
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: I doubt they'd survive in water or be able to swim given their weight.
They will swim like fish.
Mark my word- you don't want these things in your world.
August 17, 2021, 08:10 PM
Skins2881
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: Live on a boat maybe. I doubt they'd survive in water or be able to swim given their weight. But not many people live on their boats.
Wait, I'm confused. Is this Terminator or Water World?
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
August 17, 2021, 08:21 PM
Voshterkoff
My vote is Hardware. make sure to keep a fridge handy.
August 17, 2021, 08:22 PM
Black92LX
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2: This video is clever CGI, but likely fortells the future just the same:
———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you!
August 17, 2021, 08:42 PM
Aglifter
Boston Dynamics is one of the more impressive projects going.
Years ago, there was a lot of work on trying to make biological computers - not sure what happened with them, but it seems like it would be a way to make such products more robust - but we need to treat them like nukes.
Someone w. Obama's charisma, and the ability to deploy a 100,000 of those, can oppress most any nation.
August 17, 2021, 08:49 PM
12131
quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2: This video is clever CGI, but likely fortells the future just the same:
It is, from past discussions on here. But, it doesn't change what Para and 46and2 are saying. Not a good thing, for us humans.
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August 17, 2021, 09:11 PM
darthfuster
First Law A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-Asimov
Of course those laws are science FICTION. What we see being developed Will have no such code of ethics. Boston Dynamics and Cyberdyne Systems. Skynet and internet. Self awareness and self preservation. A final solution.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
August 17, 2021, 09:13 PM
stickman428
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole watch the Black Mirror episode titled Metalhead. The story is about a solar powered robotic dog like thing that hunts humans with terrifying efficiency.
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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
August 17, 2021, 09:15 PM
cas
quote:
Originally posted by stickman428: Just like with airplanes during their infancy it’s all fun and games until someone puts a machine gun on one, then warfare as we know it has changed drastically.
"Welcome to the future, Wash. Technology is incredible, and everyone uses it to kill each other."
August 18, 2021, 01:20 AM
BBMW
I find it a bit hilarious that people are getting nervous abut the perceived threat posed Boston Dynamics robots, simply because they're human-like in their movements and dexterity. Human like movement and dexterity are not a requirement for a robot to present a threat to humanity. What about something like this?
Stating the obvious, there's a guy sitting behind a screen with a joystick and buttons driving the thing. But the BD robots could be AI driven, this thing would likely be even easier to do so. And it already has a 30mm autocannon.
And what about the Predator/Reaper drones, and their foreign clones. They've been killing people for more than a decade now. Can't see or hear them. You don't know that they're there until until a Hellfire they launched obliterates you. And, same as above, a guy in a van in Indian Springs NV, is pulling the trigger. How long until that's only an option, not a requirement.
Kill bots are already here folks.
August 18, 2021, 04:38 AM
airsoft guy
Butlerian Jihad when?
quote:
Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
August 18, 2021, 06:17 AM
frayedends
quote:
Originally posted by 12131:
quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2: This video is clever CGI, but likely fortells the future just the same:
It is, from past discussions on here. But, it doesn't change what Para and 46and2 are saying. Not a good thing, for us humans.
I think the link 12131 posted is what he is saying is cgi. But from my phone the original post looks like cgi also. Is it real? I’d need to see it on my computer for better graphics.
These go to eleven.
August 18, 2021, 06:32 AM
HRK
quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: Live on a boat maybe. I doubt they'd survive in water or be able to swim given their weight. But not many people live on their boats.
Wait, I'm confused. Is this Terminator or Water World?
Iron Man - Hammer Drones... Drone better...
August 18, 2021, 08:12 AM
46and2
The video I posted has the (pretty convincing) CGI robot added (with the gun play and hockey stick, etc).
The original video in the OP is not CGI at all.
August 18, 2021, 08:22 AM
Woodman
quote:
They will surpass us in physical ability before you can blink and that's dangerous.
These are not the happy-use clever robotic hands solving Rubik Cubes, which Japanese inventors are eagerly trying to cross-platform to other uses. As soon as power supply is figured out - a fission generator of some sort - killer robots are reality. Like DaVinci, the helicopter was invented before the engine to drive it.
Toy makers have been making robotic warriors for ages. If you've read Heinlein and more recently Artemis by Andy Weir, you see how SciFi is past the cusp of sounding "everyday". The science fiction robotic warrior will be built before the "heart", its energy source, is completed.
The history of vertical flight began at least as early as about 400 CE; there are historical references to a Chinese kite that used a rotary wing as a source of lift. Toys using the principle of the helicopter—a rotary blade turned by the pull of a string—were known during the Middle Ages. During the latter part of the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci made drawings of a helicopter that used a spiral airscrew to obtain lift. A toy helicopter, using rotors made out of the feathers of birds, was presented to the French Academy of Science in 1784 by two artisans, Launoy and Bienvenu; this toy forecast a more successful model created in 1870 by Alphonse Pénaud in France. https://www.britannica.com/technology/helicopter
August 18, 2021, 08:25 AM
gpbst3
I have been taking note of all the barcodes and QR codes Boston Dynamics have been using in the videos.
I’m going to walk around in a refrigerator box with certain QR codes so the bots think I’m something else.
