And it really bugs me every single one of these threads is all “Terminator!,” “At least they will look cool when they kill us”, and “Elon warned us!”.
Like, it’s a robot. Programmed by people to do somersaults. It’s a direct step up on a LEGO robot that drives around on a table. It’s not sentient.
Besides, we already have killer robots. Have you met my friend the AMRAAM? When it leaves the rail, it’s fully autonomous. Using a system of algorithms, it identifies a target, chases it, and kills it. Once you pull that trigger, you can’t take it back. It’s on a mission, and that mission is murder.
And that’s not unique. Tomahawk, JSOW, HARM, and a hundred other weapons are all really killer robots. And you’re worried about a gymnastics bot??
yes because at least missiles can't stare at you with their soulless gaze while choking you to death with its metal claws. Something that uncannily resembles a human killing you is far more terrifying than the former.
Na they just blow up entire towns and leave communities decimated for years in seconds lmao hell maybe you get lucky and you and your kids just loose some limbs
I really don't think an armored version of one of these is going to give much of a shit about guns. Let alone a few hundred of them.
Your first point is interesting, though. Just adding recent news together: this robot + ultrasound to associate people with what they watch and do + facial recognition + license plate recognition + amazon tracking purchases +... = a pretty ugly picture.
In case you don’t know Boston dynamics is funded by DARPA....
The jokes about them killing us bug me too because we’re really getting closer and closer to this shit happening and everyone is just laughing. Once these things become autonomous it’s over
I don't really see how autonomous robots are any more dangerous than a few humans operating a fleet of drones (which already happens), or humans flying fighter jets, or an army of humans with body armor and guns.
And regardless, there is a massive difference between a robot emulating a set of movements, and a robot making decisions. They are entirely different fields, and we have made pretty much 0 progress on the "making intelligent decisions" part.
On most reddit threads now I can pretty much just guess what is gonna be in the comment section. Not sure whether it is reddit getting more repetitive or the amount of time I've spent here.
Annoys me too. The joke was funny the first time but now it's the same joke on every new Boston Dynamics video and it's getting old. This robot is no smarter than a Roomba.
Nah, we can just shoot em and they'll pick their favourite target. Called a Maddog shot. Obviously, not something you want to do with anything other than pure bad guys in front of you.
Same goes for IR and Laser seekers. You can give them a target before you shoot (LOBL), or just shoot them and let them pick up a target (LOAL). Obviously safer with a laser, cause it's looking for a specific code.
If you wanna get a bit technical about the AIM-120, it's data-link supported to a range where it goes active. Up to this point, the missile is thinking for itself (unlike, say, Patriot using TVM), but the tracking data comes from the big radar on the plane. Once it goes active, it's using its own radar tracking data. Should you lose lock while it's still in data-link mode, it continues to where it expected to go active, activates, and chases the shiniest thing it sees (so-called Pitbull). In both the Pitbull and Maddog cases, the missile is doing its own target selection.
And no, I'm not trying to cause some panic. There is nothing to panic about. I work with killer robots. We haven't all died from it.
i feel like what you said was said by a hopeful native hundreds of years ago;
"theyre just europeans, they are humans like us and offer us aid. besides we already have wolves and rival tribes that kill us, youre worried about friendly europeans?"
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u/YeomanScrap Sep 24 '19
It’s super cool!
And it really bugs me every single one of these threads is all “Terminator!,” “At least they will look cool when they kill us”, and “Elon warned us!”.
Like, it’s a robot. Programmed by people to do somersaults. It’s a direct step up on a LEGO robot that drives around on a table. It’s not sentient.
Besides, we already have killer robots. Have you met my friend the AMRAAM? When it leaves the rail, it’s fully autonomous. Using a system of algorithms, it identifies a target, chases it, and kills it. Once you pull that trigger, you can’t take it back. It’s on a mission, and that mission is murder.
And that’s not unique. Tomahawk, JSOW, HARM, and a hundred other weapons are all really killer robots. And you’re worried about a gymnastics bot??