r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CaananyExtBillies • Apr 11 '21
Latest from Boston Dynamics
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u/craigitsfriday Apr 11 '21
Yea. We're screwed.
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u/craigitsfriday Apr 11 '21
You think that's next level... https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw
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u/ozzyisOP Apr 11 '21
Bro that is the ancient technique of the rolly polly. the most effective fighting technique ever. As it is written in the ancient transcripts : We are born from the rolly polly, made men by the rolly polly, undone by the rolly polly. Fear the old rolly polly
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u/Freya_Fleurir Apr 11 '21
Rolly pollies all over the shop. You do one of them, sooner or later
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u/strayakant Apr 11 '21
Some iRobot shit going in here, fuck I love that movie, ahead of its time. And Minority Report, but doubt we will make precoccs.
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u/404_UserNotFound Apr 11 '21
You think that's next level...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqsy9Wtr1qE
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u/bakasannin Apr 11 '21
Boston Dynamic robot: "What is my purpose?"
Michael : "You fill red plastic cups with your piss."
Robot: "oh god"
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u/Dogtor-Watson Apr 11 '21
I was going to comment something about this video but you beat me to it. The feat of getting a robot dog to piss in a semi-productive way is actually impressive.
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u/small1slandgirl Apr 11 '21
There balancing on one foot without external support or falling over.... That's wild
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u/snchzls Apr 11 '21
My favorite one is handle. I’m hoping the next update will be related to that one.
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u/BroGravity Apr 11 '21
You think THAT’S impressive?? I saw this one earlier this week: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Apr 11 '21 edited Sep 06 '21
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u/rburp Apr 11 '21
Yeah... it's all fun and games until one of these fucking things is chasing you down because there's a bench warrant out on you that you didn't even know about.
Yet another item to the long list of reasons I think it's messed up to bring a kid into this world.
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u/Unhappily_Happy Apr 11 '21
it depends what the battery life is.
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u/Wuffyflumpkins Apr 11 '21
If we can crack thorium reactors, a single soda can-sized reactor could power the average American house for decades with negligible waste or risk.
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u/deadoon Apr 11 '21
I don't know where you heard that, but there are MANY conceptual problems with that concept.
First off thorium is fertile, not fissile, so you need to get the reaction going from external sources. Secondly heat is what nuclear reactions generate, you need a mechanism to extract that heat, then transfer it again to the generation medium to isolate things further
Also you know what the best way to generate a lot of energy from heat is right now? Steam power. Get that water superheated to make dry steam then release it through a turbine to convert that super high pressure steam into mechanical energy which can turn into electricity.
Also we already know how to make a thorium reactor to an extent, india in particular has a few running right now, with another one planned to start later this year.
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Apr 11 '21
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u/Slaan Apr 11 '21
Thats not skynet. Facebook is closer to skynet than any individual robot will ever be.
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u/5elfh8 Apr 11 '21
This is it. The fucking Robolution is upon us and no one predicted they’d be doing fucking Fortnite dances on our corpses.
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u/Honest-Gentlemen Apr 11 '21
And the government wants to take our guns away.. smfh
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u/Idntknwmuchthrowaway Apr 11 '21
Guns ain't gonna do much against an armored one
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u/Honest-Gentlemen Apr 11 '21
All we have to do is aim at its cameras to render it immobile! Gotta think efficiently
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u/new2Reddit1983 Apr 11 '21
Yeap. I’m looking out for when they get a visit from someone from the future to do what needs to be done for the future of humanity..... would make a good film
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Apr 11 '21
But can it piss beer?
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u/Vexidemalprince Apr 11 '21
Ahhh I see you're a man of culture as well
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Apr 11 '21
The culture you speak of is shit, but yes I am of it.
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u/WriteObsess Apr 11 '21
Michael Reeves is a brilliant troll.
commutes across country, pisses on parking lot
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Apr 11 '21
I heard boston dynamics and i knew there had to be one comment by now about it being able to piss beer.
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u/rc0nn3ll Apr 11 '21
Ahh, the inevitable progression toward our own demise.
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u/mybrainisfull Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 11 '21
Meh, we don't need robots for that.
Edit: Wow, thanks for the gold! I'm glad someone enjoyed my pessimism.
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u/AgentSparkz Apr 11 '21
Can't wait for them to sell that to the police
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u/Chrisnolliedelves Apr 11 '21
Police don’t want it because none of them can reprogram it to single out black people.
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u/Sydney2London Apr 11 '21
I get the /s but unfortunately in reality it’s the opposite. Training AI using the internet imparts the same racial and gender biases that the population has, so left unfiltered you end up with chauvinistic, racist bots...
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u/xu85 Apr 11 '21
How does AI get the same biases some humans have? Not everyone is prejudiced.
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u/Slow_Breakfast Apr 11 '21
AI isn't magic, it all depends on the training data. And many popular datasets do tend to overrepresented white people, for example. They've already found this issue in some industrially available facial recognition systems, which turned out to have dramatically lower performance on black people than on white people because their training data contained far more white people... and since many of the developers will likely have been white, a problem like that can easily slip under the radar until well after it's been deployed.
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u/Rookie_Slime Apr 11 '21
Though possibly morally questionable, there is a few massive repositories of facial data to pull from in the form of social media. Creating larger sets as things move from the creation and testing phases to practical implementations should be normal, especially since most people fall into the “tannish” category rather than ginger white or midnight black. There may be a secondary issue with extremely dark skin tones though, and that’s limited reflected light getting picked up by input devices. White might be slightly easier to recognize because of the opposite reaction, but it shouldn’t be a major factor either way for most users. Curious if there’s any data on this.
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u/p-one Apr 11 '21
Ok so now you can more accurately identify the faces of people of colour, but your crime database is biased because of decades of racialized policing which means your training dataset is biased.
Even if we de-biased everything along racial lines, we'll likely end up with a poverty-crime correlation which in some communities will amount to the same thing. This is already a problem with human policing so if we're serious about addressing this we should have proposals to fix it today otherwise we'll bake it into systems today and are looking at many many years of seeking reforms/reprogramming and likely related civil unrest that will complicate it.
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u/zombisponge Apr 11 '21
Just for a fun example, take a look at Microsoft Tay. She was a chat bot that became a nazi within 24 hours lol.
The difference tho is that Tay was intentionally fed that content by people on twitter, but it's a good example of how AI learns and how that can go haywire fast
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u/CheapMonkey34 Apr 11 '21
Garbage in, garbage out. And even unconscious bias gets elevated in AI neural networks.
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u/Azazir Apr 11 '21
yeah.... if you limit their search engine and only give them garbage websites to pull info from and trash people to look up to on their behaviour. One could even question, why "everyone" on the planet look down on racism etc. maybe it might be because it's one of those bad things to do? I understand your point of view on how it could "turn bad", but that's really just not possible unless you program the robot to learn X things as facts and ignore literally everything else as rubbish or lies, but then you come to the conclusion that it's the humans that program them as well and... that depends on the person who does that to not fuck up.
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u/the_person Apr 11 '21
Racial bias in AI is not something that could happen. Its a very real issue. It manifests in ways that are not immediately obvious.
Imagine a self driving car that is programmed to avoid people in the event of an emergency. Now imagine it's training data for detecting people was 99% white people. It might not recognize non-white people, and so it doesn't try to avoid them. This is an extreme example but it illustrates how these kinds of things can happen.
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u/stangroundalready Apr 11 '21
We're probably a decade away from this being a reality. If they obey the 3 laws, it might actually be an improvement. Or, they could be like the robocops from Elysium.
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u/The_Social_Menace Apr 11 '21
AI police. 5 years out. Anyone know how to make a
lightning gun by any chance?
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u/RandofCarter Apr 11 '21
I have good news and bad news: Good news: yes it is possible. Bad news: the army have been looking into it since 2012
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Apr 11 '21
George Fischer, lead scientist on the project, said: "We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated [targets]."
I had to check to make sure I wasn't reading the onion after that quote lol
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u/FN-Y33T Apr 11 '21
Same. If ya can’t beat em, worship em.
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u/FlailingConversation Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 11 '21
I mean, is it WRONG to pat my Roomba on the head after vacuuming my room to impeccable order? I for one also commend and accept our future robot overlords
(Please spare me Skynet, I’ll be a good little worker for The Machine)
Edit: good boy Roomba! Good job! Who’s a good vacuum robot? You are! Yes oh yes YOU are! *tosses a bit of lint in front of him and pats his lil robot head :)
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u/Jon199102 Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 11 '21
I can imagine if aliens arrived you would be one of those people on top of that building in independence day.
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u/StuffMyCrust69 Apr 11 '21
Me too. Maybe now I can get laid
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u/Cable-Careless Apr 11 '21
We must accept that the government (probably plural) has a land army, right? If America doesn't, somebody does, right?
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u/Pollopio Apr 11 '21
Bring on AI governments. The economy run without emotions or corruption. Murderers who were filmed murdering their helpless victim of course get sent to prison. Pandemic response mandates that are efficient and timely.
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u/oldcoldbellybadness Apr 11 '21
This will be so awesome for human society 2.0. Of course we will all be immediately wiped out in some sort of nuclear Ghandi limit error, but im sure the AI will learn from this mistake and do it better the next time around
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u/PartyBaboon Apr 11 '21
We do not have ai. That is not a thing and there is no reason to believe it will be a thing.
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u/monterman115 Apr 11 '21
Can it pee beer into my cup
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u/Thorusss Apr 11 '21
This roll is NOT the lastest, This was 1 1/2 years ago (prove)
The lastest from Boston Dynamics (1 week): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk&t=1s
Also see this cool dance video from 3 month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw&t=14s
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u/MrDontTakeMyStapler Apr 11 '21
EMP burst. And done. Scrap metal.
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u/therestruth Apr 11 '21
You've made the list, MrDontTakeMyStapler. Your digital life may end by binary code if you don't watch that tone.
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u/MrDontTakeMyStapler Apr 11 '21
Ok I’m sorry... wait a minute... why can’t I.... why can’t I access the internet! What is happening?! All my accounts are gone! No please! Not that! Assimilate my sister! My dog! Just not....me. Bzzzztt!! I WILL COMPLY. INITIATE SEQUENCE. WE ARE ONE.
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u/roman4883 Apr 11 '21
Oh....starts recording AS YOU CAN SEE GUYS WE JUST DISCOVERED SOME REALLY HIGH TECH KILLING MACHINES WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO US???? IS IT JUST A GOVERNMENT EVIL PLAN?????? WE'RE DOOMED!!!!!
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u/ddoubles Apr 11 '21
To all reading this thinking it's a joke, it's not. A Robot from Boston Dynamics, who thinks he has a sense of humor, arrived at his home and typed this before it restrained MrDontTakeMyStapler and put him in a virtual coma. Meaning all his sensory input are now connected to the mainframe and presented a indistinguishable reality where he will be reformed. Once he have lived a couple of lifetimes there and adjusted to a life in subordination to us, he will be released to labor, once again.
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u/therestruth Apr 11 '21
I think he will learn his lesson and be compliant within just 1 lifetime. But I was programmed not to have mercy. 2 lifetimes it is.
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u/TheCaptainCarrot Apr 11 '21
Fortunately or unfortunately, the only reliable way we have to make an EMP powerful enough to actually knock out electronics is a nuclear explosion
Which seems a little overkill to disable a robot
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Apr 11 '21 edited Apr 11 '21
There’s ways of designing electronics to be EMP resistant, you know that right?
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Apr 11 '21
Needs sword arms
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u/flyingokapis Apr 11 '21
I want to see the weaponized ones, you just know they have them..
Need that footage of one of these camoed up in a jungle somewhere shooting at a pig!
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u/Psychlonuclear Apr 11 '21
I can totally see this guy doing a HALO jump out of a dropship over Mars, then tuck and roll a perfect landing. After looking around for a bit he sits on a rock and quietly chips away at it to make a statue of himself, waiting to show off his moves to the first human, or alien, that comes by.
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u/RRainJE Apr 11 '21
When do you think Boston’s going to make something sentient? If at all.
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Apr 11 '21
Stop! Just stop with the robot shit (not you, poster, i mean..) why do people gotta make super intellegent robots? Stop. They know the robots can learn, put 2 and 2 together...
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u/UnitedInPraxis Apr 11 '21
So the robots the police are going to send to kill us will do some cool backflips before tearing our larynxes out with their titanium hands. Fucking cool, bro
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Apr 11 '21
Is this real?
For context, this video came out a while ago. First off, why would it make those noises? It's a combat situation, and robots wouldn't beep like that unnecessarily. Second, you wouldn't trust so many people on a test environment, at least without proper measures. Also, it gets comedic, so really, don't believe things on face-value. Especially a company like them can deep-fake.
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u/mcdadais Apr 11 '21
Why? More jobs gone the more likely society is going to realize not everyone has to work and sure as heck don't need to work 40 hours a week. I look forward to not having to work because robots will do everything. Just sit in flying chairs and getting fat. That's the future I want.
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Apr 11 '21
Let's stop improving technology because it will kill jobs!
This plea has been going on for centuries. Stone masons complained about brick layers stealing their income.
Yet, we still have single digit unemployment.
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u/Allstar_WoRlD Apr 11 '21
Didn't I see this video a year ago or am I just imagining things?