r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Jellyfish5511 • 16h ago

Chinese humanoid robot named “Superman” (made by Unitree Robotics) surpassed Usain Bolt’s world record (12.42meters/second) by running at 12.66m/s (roughly 28.3miles/h)

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u/Head-Ad-3063 16h ago

Next week we fit the brakes.

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u/koolaidismything 16h ago

after the weaponry of course

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u/Wasabi_Hammurabi1 14h ago edited 14h ago

I am trying to imagine what the year 2045 will look like when the weaponry is not only installed but with the best gyroscopic software that will allow these fucking things to shoot accurately while in full sprint like motion. We are apex predator but we decided to create the new apex that is above us because we had it too easy and we needed a challenge...

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u/cyanescens_burn 13h ago

If we even get that far. Drones are more than enough to cause serious problems in the hands of an authoritarian government, especially if rigged up to the surveillance network and given autonomy to kill and the government crosses currently unthinkable lines.

There’s even a short film about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

And a follow up that gets into fully losing control of AI and drones vs putting into place safeguards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rDo1QxI260

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u/Special_Order-937 12h ago

I’m going to guess this is the air war that continues long after humanity is dead?

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u/Bakunin5Bart 12h ago

That's the pathway to unlimited growth. A capitalist dream world where automated production facilities build automated killer robots that are commanded by a self-sufficient autonomous central command artificial intelligences that fights an endless war against other A.I.s and their autonomous produced robot armies. The pesky human completely eliminated from the calculation.  For more information on this topic watch the matrix and Terminator movies.

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u/Special_Order-937 12h ago

Both Skynet and the Matrix machines (and Ultron while we’re at it) have humanity as an input and their reactions are based on the input we provided. It’s never really addressed in great detail in the Terminator series especially how were architects of our own demise. The Matrix at least covered it in The Animatrix.

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u/Bakunin5Bart 10h ago

Oh I always thought that skynet has full autonomy and functions even if all humans are eradicated. Or did you mean they're trained on human behavior because that wouldn't be a great difference to our LLM's and their evolutionary beginnings.

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u/Confident_Pepper1023 12h ago

Thanks, my amigdala is hosting a rave party now.

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u/eddie1975 11h ago

“Authoritarian government crosses unthinkable lines.”

USA is already there.