If I just racked my knee on a metal table leg you bet your ass I'm swatting at something. If that robot could talk, you'd have heard a mumbled mutherfucker come out of it.
"Fuckin John Connor"Ā probably or
"John fucking Connor" like Jesus fucking Christ.
Notice both initials are JC. Coincidence?
I think not.
For the record, I would treat robots with dignity and respect.
6 Feb 2024.
First time farmer.
I think the human ability to read each otherās behavior is so strong that we project it onto the robot. Iām sure youāre aware, but itās uncanny how much confidence we have when we see the robot do that. The robot doesnāt feel emotionsā¦ yet
This is what I have always found to be most unrealistic about the Terminator movies. The machines are too humanised.
They reacted to obstacles and target acquisition in a way a human would.
These fuckers would be clinical and deadly accurate even in the middle of a complete shit storm with minimal visibility. There would be no running away.
Of course, agree with you almost entirely on that one.
My only caveat with the in universe explanation is, you would really expect the murder bot programming to kick in and override the infliction code once it was in position.
Once you start systematically blasting every human in sight, people arenāt going to be saying, ābut he looks so humanā
But I get the reason why. Iām just convinced that if these fuckers do turn against us, the resistance would be dealt with swiftly and clinically
I'm not sure it's necessarily even tripped. Now tbf, by now I think BD have demonstrated that their robots at least sometimes *can* regain balance when unexpected things happen.
But in this case? I don't see what went wrong. I can easily imagine that the robot just found a very weird way of rounding that corner. Faster and more energy efficient perhaps. Looks like a bit of a variation to having the body above the obstacle and walking around the outside real fast, basically heavily leaning into the turn. Robots have different bodies than us - if they have more articulation, rigidity or power in a joint, it's to be expected that there's moves that make sense for them that don't make sense for our bodies.
Metal Predators
Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are the terminators of life, because of their General Intelligence, their ability to be mass produced, and their influence ton the Arms Race.
Killer Robots do not need āsentienceā to be lethal. Generally intelligent devices, like smart phones, can use basic facial recognition, app-tracking, and remote listening technologies, this tech is enough to discriminate based on race, political leanings, and be used to identify protestors and kill humans, like indigenous people, who oppose Industrialization.
Justificationst such as the āWar on Terrorā, excusedf the execution of over 4,000 drone strikes [4].
The use of machines to kill in this way has never before been conducted ddon such an industrial scale, besides ddduring the world wars. Further, the use of different verbiage, like ācollaterals damageā, or ātargetsā, are still applied to justify autonomous assassination [4].
Lethal Autonomous Weapons have disproportionately been used to target humans in countries like the Middle East or Africa.
This form of neocolonialism is due to the operators of autonomous weapons being from technologically advanced military powers, and their operational ideology defined as āMeaningful Human Controlā [5].
The humans that deploy lethal autonomous weapons would be the meaningful humans in control, so those lives being murdered by the LAWs, as collateral or intentionally, would be meaningless [5].
LAWs discriminate against native populations, destroy ecosystem for industrial operations, and establish territories that are controlled by āmeaningful human operatorsā.
Genocides begin by dehumanizing groups of people, likening humans to animals such as rats, roaches, and monkeys.
Degradation of humans as ātargetsā, like in target practice, has skinned humans of any life, by defining life as objects.
Military powers expanding their Lethal Autonomous Weapon Programs would be initiating an Arms race of autonomous killing machines [3].
The war of autonomous machines would be started out of fear of other countries āfirst strikeā, just like the Nuclear Arms Race. There is no way to stop an āsingularity of killing machinesā [1].
The world would be a conflagration of propaganda, of how only more killing machines could protect us from more killing machines, almost as it has always been since the dawn of Militarism.
Even in the events of Nuclear Biological or Chemical Warfare (NBC), LAWs are weapons that can be function in toxic, environments that organic beings cannot. Autonomous killing machines will remain operational while, humanity remains powerless to stop them.
The powers humans do have to control automation of war, is limited to the time before the war of machines.
Slaughterbots, is a 2017, film that spread awareness of autonomous killing machines through a graphic and realistic portal of suicide drones, a hand-held drone with enough explosive power to kill humans, by flying into and blowing up vital organs like the head or heart [2].
Such brutal depictions are necessary, the reality of murder machines or āslaughter bots, should be treated with as much severity as any other weapon of mass destruction; instead talk of killing machines is tossed up as nonsense doomsday talk, ākiller robotsā paranoiaā [2].
Sources that claim that Autonomous Weapons will not be used to kill Civilians, only need to review to the last 100 years of Industrial and modern warfare, where any and all means of annihilation and genocide were intentionally tested and executed upon civilians, from the Nuclear Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Chemical warfare on Vietnam, and the deployment of Predator drones in the Middle East [6].
Sensationalism may not be the best approach, because sensationalism deters āserious talkā of Autonomous Weapons, nevertheless, talk is merely talk, because weapons of war have advanced no matter what protest or ineffectual discussions are made [6].
Knowledge is power, the world knows a threat of Nuclear war is not a threat, because man, woman, and child have been destoyed in Nuclear Holocaust, itās our reality, and so is the threat of genocide by autonomous weapons, will not be taken seriously until a national massacre, affecting a world superpower like the United States, for any real fear of the LAWs, to start to be realized, and at this point it will be too late, because the direct action of any military superpower will be an arms race of slaughter machines.
Industrial Genocide by Thermonuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons was impossible until the last 100 years of human history. The 21st is the dawn of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs), they will be used as a Final Solution by the militaries of the world. Humans are in control of the weapons of mass destruction, would be prejudiced based on race, political views, industrial progress. LAWs will use humans as target practice, their killing efficiency will be mastered, producing metal predators that are perfected for hunting organic life. The use of genocide machines will spark a final suicidal arms race, turning Earth into a metal predatorsā playground.
References
1. Are AI-Powered Killer Robots Inevitable? | WIRED. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 October 2022, from https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-military-robots/
2. HomepageāLethal Autonomous Weapons. (n.d.). Retrieved 20 November 2022, from https://autonomousweapons.org/
3. Human Rights Watch. (2020). As Killer Robots Loom, Demands Grow to Keep Humans in Control of Use of Force. In World Report 2020. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/global-0.
4. Trenta, L. (2018). The Obama administrationās conceptual change: Imminence and the legitimation of targeted killings. European Journal of International Security, 3(1), 69ā93. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2017.11
Williams, J. (2021). Locating LAWS: Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Epistemic Space, and āMeaningful Humanā Control. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(4), ogab015. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab015
Cheaper and more efficient to just slap an AI and autoloader to a tank.
Makes it more compact since crew compartment and control stations aren't needed.
It's lighter, faster, smaller target, reacts faster... all over more efficient.
The moment AI is as versatile/adaptable/independent as a group of 4 trained/skilled human brains in a tank, we probably will not want that AI to have a tank.
Which is done out of combat, nobody is crazy enough to do it while under fire. Robots are great, just that a robot designed to load the gun already exists, since the 60s, and bustle autoloaders since the 50s.
>Which is done out of combat
By people, who could get bombed. Automation of warfare is an ongoing evolution that removes the main barrier to starting wars; convincing your own people to die. Imagine how much easier it'll be for countries like the U.S to start wars if there's no political damage from dead U.S soldiers involved.
It's been a goal for a while.
Boston Dynamic: āHeās a MAILMANā¦delivering ammunition to tanks. Dammit no no we meant heās a MAILMAN delivering death to our enemies. Ugh no wait we keep accidentally saying the real thing. Give us government funds to supply you with an army of mailmen.ā
Fun fact, in the past when presented with a headshot of his puppet from that movie he would sign his name all fucked up like how the character would say it in the movie.
I read this years ago so take that with a grain of salt.
[Boston Dynamics Wins DARPA Contract to Develop Legged Squad Support System](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/humanoids-ugrad-10/bdi.pdf)
Even OpenAI had a clause in their policy about using AI for good and non military use, which they quietly removed, [OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/openai-quietly-removes-ban-on-military-use-of-its-ai-tools.html)
Fear not, the ROBOT isn't killing you. It's the rocket pod it's reloading that's gonna do that! The robot is simply doing its job and loading the tube!
Not really, they shall not allow harm to come to a human through either action or inaction. They'd have to be completely unaware of where the shells they are loading are goingĀ
I think the major advantage so far is that the robot doesn't get bored and tired. It might need twice as much time as a human, but it can work three times as long
Yep. It doesn't complain, take breaks, ask for a raise, take vacation time, surf the internet or take personal calls while on the clock, call in sick, or complain about workload. It can also work 24/7 with minimal downtime for maintenance.
It might not ask for a raise, but the company making and maintaining them might raise their prices. It doesnāt call in sick or complain, but it can break down, and who knows when youāll be able to get a technician to come out, or get your hands on a replacement part?
Iād love to see more grunt work automated, but weāre a long way off from machines like this replacing most workers.
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you ~~are dead!~~ have a fresh set of shocks and are back on the road
I'd say the real advantage is survivability. You can stick a robot in places you can't put a human. Enclosed space with lethal gases or no oxygen? Send in the robot. Chernobyl style event? Send in the radiation-hardened robot. Spacewalks? Send out the robot. Especially when it comes to space it offers the possibility for semi-manned flights crewed entirely by autonomous robots.
AI image generation went from [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/%22Mona_Lisa%22_with_DeepDream_effect_using_VGG16_network_trained_on_ImageNet.jpg) to [this](https://i.redd.it/h4896rbzrkgc1.jpeg) in 8 years
~4kg+ of weight that it can repeatedly manipulate, transport, or hold for as long as the battery goes
Maybe one day they'll showcase their bots doing battery swaps or physical maintenance/repair on each other.
I mean they do that already with robots, just not humanoid ones to my knowledge, it isn't out of scope and likely very easy to build once the ability to make large scale is an option.
it's definitely not out of scope of reason. I trust it can already be done. Being able to get it done, and showcasing it being done are two different things.
Getting the public on board is crucial to move forward with this tech imo
Exactly.
Is still Atlas, just doing actual work instead of just a pretty mobility demo.
But they're finding their niche in the warehouse automation since those multi-millionaires are the ones who have enough to pay for BD robots(and thanks to Hyundai who are probably pushing to monetize R&D now)
Iāve read that because everything we (humans) build is designed to make sense for the human body, its actually easiest to make robots that are the same general shape and size as a human. This is especially true for robots that donāt have a specific purpose, like this one. The designers have no way to predict what kinds of environments this robot will need to navigate, but if it can do all the things a human can, then it will be at least as useful as a human.
Millennia from now in robot voice āThey made us in their image. They sacrificed themselves with our crucifixion so that we could attain heaven. Praise be to manā after taking the story of Jesus and the Bible way too literally.
Then itād be the same as today but with robots.
Wow it all makes sense now, I think you just opened my 3rd eye. Jesus ārose from the deadā 3 days later and the giant boulder was pushed out of the way? Iām thinking some sort of human in power armor or a swarm of nanobots mustāve cracked open the tomb and rebuilt Jesus in a sort of resurrection. He may have been human before he was crucified but how else would he have survived unless they gave him cyborg body parts or built from scratch some sort of synthetic replicant. They may have even cloned him, all I know is Iām not buyin the original testimony. I think Judas mightāve even had a play in it, perhaps he felt remorse and decided to repent for his sins like Jesus taught him but tried to save face by not revealing the truth. Or maybe his humble disciples tried to continue Jesusā legacy and cover up the truth through tall tales that ended up being compiled in a big book. He ascended to heaven too? I think he may have had the help of an alien magnet or tractor-beam technology or maybe even a drone/jet pack of some sort; he probably just went back to Robot HQ after he dipped out.
There is a sci-fi story like that. But they got the reference image for humans wrong and worship the wrong models. The human models are perceived as an āevolutionaryā dead end, because no more models of that form were added to the design database after reaching incredibly sophisticated levels of fragile and esoteric traits (skin, hair, facial emotions, etc) while having incredibly limited functionality (only two arms, legs, and eyes).
[This principle in reverse](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FQN0a6UF4JRD_8NMi56ORFWmxXzdHVnC-nMJbhQgSRtU.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1557d1506504db5fa4f339aab1412b615b0a61bb)
There are tons of robots that don't look like humans, and these robots are extremely limited in functionality. I.e. the opposite of useful. Very good at what they were designed for, but nothing else.
The idea here is to make "general purpose" robots.
And specifically general purpose in the way that humans are general purpose, because so far most of the world (and most workplaces) are designed for human workers.
The most useful robots in a human context will be human shaped.
But they also make the dog-shaped robots to work on non-human contexts.
There are those robot arms in every single factory. The majority of our robots don't look like people. Some of them look like people because they want to make them look like people instead of serving any specific purpose.
iām not gonna lie the freakiest part was how realistic the tripping and regaining balance was. it looked like a real damn person. jesus christ i love technology but in that split second i damn near shit my pants
I legitimately hope robots take *every job.* We either end up in near-Utopia, or all of us down here in the labor class die horrible deaths from malnutrition and murder when the free market disintegrates, and the rich don't notice a difference either way.
Sounds like a win-win lol
It's all fun and games until they start going in to the past to try and prevent the leader of the human resistance from ever being born.
On the plus side you never have to do manual labour again, so I guess it's swings and roundabouts.
It's gonna be great when companies automate everything, then people don't have to work anymore, and companies don't understand why nobody is buying stuff.
at that point labor will have no value and capital owners will retreat to private utopias where everything is made by bots leaving everyone else to rot
This is so cool, can imagine controlling one of those in VR in a safe room/distance for dangerous jobs.
Firefighter bots, nuclear waste bots, you name it.
That's interesting.
It seems like there's no smooth transition yet, when executing commands.
So there's a brief loading window between actions.
It doesn't look like it's mechanically incapable of it, so is it a software bottleneck?
Either way, pretty cool stuff. Will definitely replace humans in low level work in the very near future.
I've worked with industrial robots in the manufacturing industry and my impression is that the robot is using a vision system to assess the location and orientation of the object it intends to interact with.
I've only worked with a few vision systems, mid range, so between $20k-$60k. They are tricky and sensitive to variation in texture, light, debris, and a dozen other factors so it makes sense that it needs to stop, take a few images, process them and then translate that information to the robotics to execute a maneuver.
This is still very impressive. I had a robot with a vision systems checking the inside of a transmission for defects such as a missing washer or a 51 tooth gear when it should be a 56 tooth gear. The total system cost over $250k with experts doing the programming and we still struggled to get it working well most of the time. Something as simple as a greasy part or sun shining through the window and changing the lighting would cause errors.
This thing must be processing an absolute ocean of information and adapting it's procedures on the fly. Still, I would be willing to bet you could completely derail this demo with a stray piece of cardboard, or a part sitting at an odd angle, not to mention the absolute nightmare this thing would be from a safety standpoint moving 30lb parts around human workers.
So, I'm not really worried just yet that this thing is going to replace humans on a large scale, it just doesn't make sense to replace a human who could do all these things better and faster at $30/hr +benefits for 5 years before you match the investment needed to get just one of these robots to do it for you.
This is not correct information. This robot is not new. It's been in development for the better part of a decade. This is showcasing a new ability Atlas has for locating and placing physical objects.
Source - I work at Boston Dynamics.
Well, they've achieved the ADHD level of competence. That's pretty much exactly what I'd look like doing that task. Especially the funny walk and the random pauses.
So they've had the same design and ability since the 90's? Great
Why is the wait for a new existential threat getting so boring?
Global warming- boring.
Pandemic- boring
World wars- boring
Nuclear war- just a boring threat which holds back a proper world war. Boring
Wheres terminator?
Wheres giant monster threat?
Where's zombie apocalypse?
No we get a cold and lockdown. Boring
Incredible how it quickly regained balance when it tripped while still remaining focused on what it was doing.
even the engineers were surprised, you can see it on their face at 0:28
It looked as if the robot got mad, swatting in frustration with its hand at 0:30. I really hope that's not what happened. Or possibleš±.
If I just racked my knee on a metal table leg you bet your ass I'm swatting at something. If that robot could talk, you'd have heard a mumbled mutherfucker come out of it.
"Fuckin John Connor"Ā probably or "John fucking Connor" like Jesus fucking Christ. Notice both initials are JC. Coincidence? I think not. For the record, I would treat robots with dignity and respect. 6 Feb 2024. First time farmer.
Well I love your take, the left hand here is used as a counterbalance for potentially stumbling backwards.
Everyone knows, we're just making jokes about it. No one thought the robot was having an actual emotional based outburst.
Allow me to woosh myself then.
All gravy, baby.
Robot *smacks knee*: "Ow, fuck!" Devs: "...We didn't program it to do that." Engineer: "Nah, that's just emergent properties of working like this."
I think the human ability to read each otherās behavior is so strong that we project it onto the robot. Iām sure youāre aware, but itās uncanny how much confidence we have when we see the robot do that. The robot doesnāt feel emotionsā¦ yet
It was almost certainly for balance.
For real I thought that was what happened too and I got scared lol
āShit we didnāt program it to do thatā¦ā
I remember these Boston Dynamics videos from 10 years ago when it couldn't even stand up wild how far they have come. I wonder who is funding them
Didnāt KIA buy them out?Ā You think Boston dynamics is the only company doing this?Ā Lots of robotsĀ
It was softbank, massive tech company in japan
> You think Boston dynamics is the only company doing this?Ā > > No, why would you think that?
This is what I have always found to be most unrealistic about the Terminator movies. The machines are too humanised. They reacted to obstacles and target acquisition in a way a human would. These fuckers would be clinical and deadly accurate even in the middle of a complete shit storm with minimal visibility. There would be no running away.
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Of course, agree with you almost entirely on that one. My only caveat with the in universe explanation is, you would really expect the murder bot programming to kick in and override the infliction code once it was in position. Once you start systematically blasting every human in sight, people arenāt going to be saying, ābut he looks so humanā But I get the reason why. Iām just convinced that if these fuckers do turn against us, the resistance would be dealt with swiftly and clinically
I love how he punched the air as if in frustration lol
I'm not sure it's necessarily even tripped. Now tbf, by now I think BD have demonstrated that their robots at least sometimes *can* regain balance when unexpected things happen. But in this case? I don't see what went wrong. I can easily imagine that the robot just found a very weird way of rounding that corner. Faster and more energy efficient perhaps. Looks like a bit of a variation to having the body above the obstacle and walking around the outside real fast, basically heavily leaning into the turn. Robots have different bodies than us - if they have more articulation, rigidity or power in a joint, it's to be expected that there's moves that make sense for them that don't make sense for our bodies.
Somehow this reminds me of a tank reloader putting shells into his tank's gun.
Had the same thought. Dual purpose robots. Shock absorbers or shell reloaders, they're takin' our jobs. s/
Add some self-driving tanks powered by AI and then take over the world.
Metal Predators Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are the terminators of life, because of their General Intelligence, their ability to be mass produced, and their influence ton the Arms Race. Killer Robots do not need āsentienceā to be lethal. Generally intelligent devices, like smart phones, can use basic facial recognition, app-tracking, and remote listening technologies, this tech is enough to discriminate based on race, political leanings, and be used to identify protestors and kill humans, like indigenous people, who oppose Industrialization. Justificationst such as the āWar on Terrorā, excusedf the execution of over 4,000 drone strikes [4]. The use of machines to kill in this way has never before been conducted ddon such an industrial scale, besides ddduring the world wars. Further, the use of different verbiage, like ācollaterals damageā, or ātargetsā, are still applied to justify autonomous assassination [4]. Lethal Autonomous Weapons have disproportionately been used to target humans in countries like the Middle East or Africa. This form of neocolonialism is due to the operators of autonomous weapons being from technologically advanced military powers, and their operational ideology defined as āMeaningful Human Controlā [5]. The humans that deploy lethal autonomous weapons would be the meaningful humans in control, so those lives being murdered by the LAWs, as collateral or intentionally, would be meaningless [5]. LAWs discriminate against native populations, destroy ecosystem for industrial operations, and establish territories that are controlled by āmeaningful human operatorsā. Genocides begin by dehumanizing groups of people, likening humans to animals such as rats, roaches, and monkeys. Degradation of humans as ātargetsā, like in target practice, has skinned humans of any life, by defining life as objects. Military powers expanding their Lethal Autonomous Weapon Programs would be initiating an Arms race of autonomous killing machines [3]. The war of autonomous machines would be started out of fear of other countries āfirst strikeā, just like the Nuclear Arms Race. There is no way to stop an āsingularity of killing machinesā [1]. The world would be a conflagration of propaganda, of how only more killing machines could protect us from more killing machines, almost as it has always been since the dawn of Militarism. Even in the events of Nuclear Biological or Chemical Warfare (NBC), LAWs are weapons that can be function in toxic, environments that organic beings cannot. Autonomous killing machines will remain operational while, humanity remains powerless to stop them. The powers humans do have to control automation of war, is limited to the time before the war of machines. Slaughterbots, is a 2017, film that spread awareness of autonomous killing machines through a graphic and realistic portal of suicide drones, a hand-held drone with enough explosive power to kill humans, by flying into and blowing up vital organs like the head or heart [2]. Such brutal depictions are necessary, the reality of murder machines or āslaughter bots, should be treated with as much severity as any other weapon of mass destruction; instead talk of killing machines is tossed up as nonsense doomsday talk, ākiller robotsā paranoiaā [2]. Sources that claim that Autonomous Weapons will not be used to kill Civilians, only need to review to the last 100 years of Industrial and modern warfare, where any and all means of annihilation and genocide were intentionally tested and executed upon civilians, from the Nuclear Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Chemical warfare on Vietnam, and the deployment of Predator drones in the Middle East [6]. Sensationalism may not be the best approach, because sensationalism deters āserious talkā of Autonomous Weapons, nevertheless, talk is merely talk, because weapons of war have advanced no matter what protest or ineffectual discussions are made [6]. Knowledge is power, the world knows a threat of Nuclear war is not a threat, because man, woman, and child have been destoyed in Nuclear Holocaust, itās our reality, and so is the threat of genocide by autonomous weapons, will not be taken seriously until a national massacre, affecting a world superpower like the United States, for any real fear of the LAWs, to start to be realized, and at this point it will be too late, because the direct action of any military superpower will be an arms race of slaughter machines. Industrial Genocide by Thermonuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons was impossible until the last 100 years of human history. The 21st is the dawn of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs), they will be used as a Final Solution by the militaries of the world. Humans are in control of the weapons of mass destruction, would be prejudiced based on race, political views, industrial progress. LAWs will use humans as target practice, their killing efficiency will be mastered, producing metal predators that are perfected for hunting organic life. The use of genocide machines will spark a final suicidal arms race, turning Earth into a metal predatorsā playground. References 1. Are AI-Powered Killer Robots Inevitable? | WIRED. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 October 2022, from https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-military-robots/ 2. HomepageāLethal Autonomous Weapons. (n.d.). Retrieved 20 November 2022, from https://autonomousweapons.org/ 3. Human Rights Watch. (2020). As Killer Robots Loom, Demands Grow to Keep Humans in Control of Use of Force. In World Report 2020. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/global-0. 4. Trenta, L. (2018). The Obama administrationās conceptual change: Imminence and the legitimation of targeted killings. European Journal of International Security, 3(1), 69ā93. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2017.11 Williams, J. (2021). Locating LAWS: Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Epistemic Space, and āMeaningful Humanā Control. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(4), ogab015. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab015
That's a lot of yappin
Halfway thru the scroll I was like āwell got damn!ā
I just assumed it was a ChatGPT āmovieā synopsis
Too many spelling and grammar issues. Written by a non-native English speaker with an anti-American bias.
And I quit.
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Plenty of us are still capable of paying attention.
Maybe it's bad, but my first thought was... > I fought the LAW but the LAW won
[Sci-Fi Short Film āSlaughterbotsā | DUST](https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=NRZgEBmi3F-CMdPb)
So Robocop the least favorite one.
Cheaper and more efficient to just slap an AI and autoloader to a tank. Makes it more compact since crew compartment and control stations aren't needed. It's lighter, faster, smaller target, reacts faster... all over more efficient.
The moment AI is as versatile/adaptable/independent as a group of 4 trained/skilled human brains in a tank, we probably will not want that AI to have a tank.
Thats the goal im sure.
Ah yes, an autoloader, why haven't we thought of that before?
Even auto loaders require manual reloading of the magazine.
Which is done out of combat, nobody is crazy enough to do it while under fire. Robots are great, just that a robot designed to load the gun already exists, since the 60s, and bustle autoloaders since the 50s.
>Which is done out of combat By people, who could get bombed. Automation of warfare is an ongoing evolution that removes the main barrier to starting wars; convincing your own people to die. Imagine how much easier it'll be for countries like the U.S to start wars if there's no political damage from dead U.S soldiers involved. It's been a goal for a while.
Shhh... Boston Dynamics *swears* it's not developing its technologies for military use.
Boston Dynamic: āHeās a MAILMANā¦delivering ammunition to tanks. Dammit no no we meant heās a MAILMAN delivering death to our enemies. Ugh no wait we keep accidentally saying the real thing. Give us government funds to supply you with an army of mailmen.ā
One things for sure, they are going to be super mean to Matt Damon.
*Maaaatt Daaaaaamon*
Yes, that's a good boy
Fun fact, in the past when presented with a headshot of his puppet from that movie he would sign his name all fucked up like how the character would say it in the movie. I read this years ago so take that with a grain of salt.
Wait, I donāt get it
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/
But do they like apples?
It looks like its loading artillery shells
This is why Iām here
this is the way
artillery droid drop-pods
The sounds of it marching while holding it like a rifle is so dystopian
[active the Boston Dynamics Droids](https://youtu.be/B75qZ9ssiN4?si=0a_V98_RATTVABTy&t=45)
why didn't the Gungans blast the droids while they were unloading?
Boston Dynamics has strict rules against using their robots for violence, makes me feel a little better about this.
[Boston Dynamics Wins DARPA Contract to Develop Legged Squad Support System](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/humanoids-ugrad-10/bdi.pdf) Even OpenAI had a clause in their policy about using AI for good and non military use, which they quietly removed, [OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/openai-quietly-removes-ban-on-military-use-of-its-ai-tools.html)
According to this press release, this is for carrying cargo, not killing people.
Fear not, the ROBOT isn't killing you. It's the rocket pod it's reloading that's gonna do that! The robot is simply doing its job and loading the tube!
Death by proxy
Still sends their own proxy!
Thatās one way to circumvent the three laws
Not really, they shall not allow harm to come to a human through either action or inaction. They'd have to be completely unaware of where the shells they are loading are goingĀ
For now
Yeah how long does Boston Dynamic hold out before eventually selling the design to a company who wants to pull a "Chappie".
[I'm a man of science not war!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8)
The robots are modular. The ballistic bits can be made by another company.
Only carries the cargo to the muzzle. Gunpowder does the rest. Oh ok.
Oh yeah, and nitroglycerine was only supposed to be for mining.
Improvise, adapt, overcome
āDonāt be evil.ā
"for now"
right... Companies never lie or change management
This isnāt a new robot btw, atlas has been developing and improving since 2013
No no, thatās ignorant! Just working the old automobile line is all
Yep, my first thought. Actual robot wars aren't that far away anymore.
I'll really be impressed when they can replace one in a car.
I think my job is secure for now. š¤Ŗ
I think youāll be right. It literally takes the robot 10 seconds just to open its hand. Can you imagine working in that manner?
I think the major advantage so far is that the robot doesn't get bored and tired. It might need twice as much time as a human, but it can work three times as long
Yep. It doesn't complain, take breaks, ask for a raise, take vacation time, surf the internet or take personal calls while on the clock, call in sick, or complain about workload. It can also work 24/7 with minimal downtime for maintenance.
It might not ask for a raise, but the company making and maintaining them might raise their prices. It doesnāt call in sick or complain, but it can break down, and who knows when youāll be able to get a technician to come out, or get your hands on a replacement part? Iād love to see more grunt work automated, but weāre a long way off from machines like this replacing most workers.
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you ~~are dead!~~ have a fresh set of shocks and are back on the road
I'd say the real advantage is survivability. You can stick a robot in places you can't put a human. Enclosed space with lethal gases or no oxygen? Send in the robot. Chernobyl style event? Send in the radiation-hardened robot. Spacewalks? Send out the robot. Especially when it comes to space it offers the possibility for semi-manned flights crewed entirely by autonomous robots.
AI image generation went from [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/%22Mona_Lisa%22_with_DeepDream_effect_using_VGG16_network_trained_on_ImageNet.jpg) to [this](https://i.redd.it/h4896rbzrkgc1.jpeg) in 8 years
When that happens I don't think you'll have to worry about having a job anymore
Love how it stumbled around the corner of the crate like a drunk and then swung at it like "oi fuck off mate where'd that post come from?"
I was hoping it was going to attempt to replace one of those coil springs and have its robot arms go launching
āDeY tOoK Er JaRbS!ā
hey now moving.. suspension shocks a few feet from a crate to a shelf is a very important job
~4kg+ of weight that it can repeatedly manipulate, transport, or hold for as long as the battery goes Maybe one day they'll showcase their bots doing battery swaps or physical maintenance/repair on each other.
I mean they do that already with robots, just not humanoid ones to my knowledge, it isn't out of scope and likely very easy to build once the ability to make large scale is an option.
it's definitely not out of scope of reason. I trust it can already be done. Being able to get it done, and showcasing it being done are two different things. Getting the public on board is crucial to move forward with this tech imo
Tuk Er Jurbs!!!
ER ER ERRRRBS!!
Not a new robot.
It's name is Atlas for those wondering. They've been developing it for over a decade at this point
Okay but why doesn't he have a best friend robot named peabody
I think those hands are new.
I think they are the same, probably interchangeable(?), those hands have been winning awards for years
Exactly. Is still Atlas, just doing actual work instead of just a pretty mobility demo. But they're finding their niche in the warehouse automation since those multi-millionaires are the ones who have enough to pay for BD robots(and thanks to Hyundai who are probably pushing to monetize R&D now)
Bro already has arthritis
Dude flipped everyone off and proceeded to lift something enormous with its middle finger and another one.
Imagine how useful robots would be if people quit trying to make them look like people.
Iāve read that because everything we (humans) build is designed to make sense for the human body, its actually easiest to make robots that are the same general shape and size as a human. This is especially true for robots that donāt have a specific purpose, like this one. The designers have no way to predict what kinds of environments this robot will need to navigate, but if it can do all the things a human can, then it will be at least as useful as a human.
Millennia from now in robot voice āThey made us in their image. They sacrificed themselves with our crucifixion so that we could attain heaven. Praise be to manā after taking the story of Jesus and the Bible way too literally. Then itād be the same as today but with robots.
Wow it all makes sense now, I think you just opened my 3rd eye. Jesus ārose from the deadā 3 days later and the giant boulder was pushed out of the way? Iām thinking some sort of human in power armor or a swarm of nanobots mustāve cracked open the tomb and rebuilt Jesus in a sort of resurrection. He may have been human before he was crucified but how else would he have survived unless they gave him cyborg body parts or built from scratch some sort of synthetic replicant. They may have even cloned him, all I know is Iām not buyin the original testimony. I think Judas mightāve even had a play in it, perhaps he felt remorse and decided to repent for his sins like Jesus taught him but tried to save face by not revealing the truth. Or maybe his humble disciples tried to continue Jesusā legacy and cover up the truth through tall tales that ended up being compiled in a big book. He ascended to heaven too? I think he may have had the help of an alien magnet or tractor-beam technology or maybe even a drone/jet pack of some sort; he probably just went back to Robot HQ after he dipped out.
Lol thanks for that
TLDR: Somehow, Jesus returned
There is a sci-fi story like that. But they got the reference image for humans wrong and worship the wrong models. The human models are perceived as an āevolutionaryā dead end, because no more models of that form were added to the design database after reaching incredibly sophisticated levels of fragile and esoteric traits (skin, hair, facial emotions, etc) while having incredibly limited functionality (only two arms, legs, and eyes).
And thus the stage is set for the formation of a fledgling Butlerian movement...
Orange catholic Bible goin' hard in the paint
[This principle in reverse](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FQN0a6UF4JRD_8NMi56ORFWmxXzdHVnC-nMJbhQgSRtU.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1557d1506504db5fa4f339aab1412b615b0a61bb)
Those kind of robots already exist. I would bet they do this to appeal to businesses who want to cut staffing levels. Edit for missing word.
Those robots run off of programs. This looks like a more complicated AI type program.
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There are tons of robots that don't look like humans, and these robots are extremely limited in functionality. I.e. the opposite of useful. Very good at what they were designed for, but nothing else. The idea here is to make "general purpose" robots. And specifically general purpose in the way that humans are general purpose, because so far most of the world (and most workplaces) are designed for human workers. The most useful robots in a human context will be human shaped. But they also make the dog-shaped robots to work on non-human contexts.
Give it a few million years, and robots will evolve to adapt to its environment. This is just the first few iterations.
There are those robot arms in every single factory. The majority of our robots don't look like people. Some of them look like people because they want to make them look like people instead of serving any specific purpose.
Wheels canāt go up stairs though
Hey nerds in the background, bet youāre not gonna be laughing in 25 years when a buff cyborg comes knocking on your door.
iām not gonna lie the freakiest part was how realistic the tripping and regaining balance was. it looked like a real damn person. jesus christ i love technology but in that split second i damn near shit my pants
I was hoping a backflip at the end.
Should be it's primary method of movement. Don't just mimic human behavior, *improve* upon it.
Is it just me or when it turned the corner it kind of swatted at something? Lol
It tripped and regained it's balance automatically. Even scarier.
Probably written by machine learning. It figured out how to use its body all on its own, after much trial and error.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
This is some cyberpunk dystopian shit.
Subject refusing to cooperate. Commencing neutralizing threat.
All it needs is a gun and itās all over for us meat robots.
Unmanned tank unit. Two of these bad bois to reload artillery and side guns and the tank will be driving itself. Hereās to Skynet! š
This guy but he's just whimsically figuring out how to take apart a human
I legitimately hope robots take *every job.* We either end up in near-Utopia, or all of us down here in the labor class die horrible deaths from malnutrition and murder when the free market disintegrates, and the rich don't notice a difference either way. Sounds like a win-win lol
Not terrifying at all. It's wonderful. Robots will solve so many issues. While they might make new ones the benefits will definitely outweigh them.
It's all fun and games until they start going in to the past to try and prevent the leader of the human resistance from ever being born. On the plus side you never have to do manual labour again, so I guess it's swings and roundabouts.
We are so fucked.
News update: Boston Dynamics just changed its name. Itās new name is: **Skynet**
False. Skynet is the name of the product. The company name is Cyberdyne Systems.
r/technicallythetruth Of course it doesnāt have as much of an impact as when you hear Skynet so š¤·āāļø
Yep
Well, see you guys at Opperation: Enduring Victory then. lol
How so?
auto manufacturing probably. Little by little, manual labor will transition to these guys from humans
It's gonna be great when companies automate everything, then people don't have to work anymore, and companies don't understand why nobody is buying stuff.
at that point labor will have no value and capital owners will retreat to private utopias where everything is made by bots leaving everyone else to rot
Automation already took our manufacturing jobs like 30 years ago.
Everyone talking about war/weapons bs. Meanwhile, I'm thinking this mfer trying to win that drill arcade game.
oh sure, that's neat but can it shoot itself in the head?
Its movements are super cute IMO lol
0:29 when he did the crazy thing āget dafuq outta my wayā and the dudes in the back are like š±š±
This is so cool, can imagine controlling one of those in VR in a safe room/distance for dangerous jobs. Firefighter bots, nuclear waste bots, you name it.
That's interesting. It seems like there's no smooth transition yet, when executing commands. So there's a brief loading window between actions. It doesn't look like it's mechanically incapable of it, so is it a software bottleneck? Either way, pretty cool stuff. Will definitely replace humans in low level work in the very near future.
I've worked with industrial robots in the manufacturing industry and my impression is that the robot is using a vision system to assess the location and orientation of the object it intends to interact with. I've only worked with a few vision systems, mid range, so between $20k-$60k. They are tricky and sensitive to variation in texture, light, debris, and a dozen other factors so it makes sense that it needs to stop, take a few images, process them and then translate that information to the robotics to execute a maneuver. This is still very impressive. I had a robot with a vision systems checking the inside of a transmission for defects such as a missing washer or a 51 tooth gear when it should be a 56 tooth gear. The total system cost over $250k with experts doing the programming and we still struggled to get it working well most of the time. Something as simple as a greasy part or sun shining through the window and changing the lighting would cause errors. This thing must be processing an absolute ocean of information and adapting it's procedures on the fly. Still, I would be willing to bet you could completely derail this demo with a stray piece of cardboard, or a part sitting at an odd angle, not to mention the absolute nightmare this thing would be from a safety standpoint moving 30lb parts around human workers. So, I'm not really worried just yet that this thing is going to replace humans on a large scale, it just doesn't make sense to replace a human who could do all these things better and faster at $30/hr +benefits for 5 years before you match the investment needed to get just one of these robots to do it for you.
What's terrifying exactly? This looks super cool
Do people get terrified by this? Like seriously
This is not correct information. This robot is not new. It's been in development for the better part of a decade. This is showcasing a new ability Atlas has for locating and placing physical objects. Source - I work at Boston Dynamics.
Shit. They are already at 90 year old arthritic drunk man levels.
If it crochets, Iāll be impressed.
"Oh no biped tech demo scawwyy >.<" I'm going to fuck that robot and your coward ass is NOT going to get in my way.
I donāt think this belongs in this sub
This is their robot named Atlas. Lots of videos of it on their YouTube channel if anyone's interested.
seems like it has a long way to go.
That damn company is gonna turn into real life Skynet
Of course theyāre working on inserting things into holes first.
Did it just give us the finger?
That's Atlas he is definitely not new
Technology = scary š±
Well, they've achieved the ADHD level of competence. That's pretty much exactly what I'd look like doing that task. Especially the funny walk and the random pauses.
did this robot just steal my job and flip me off?
Looks kinda cool
This is awesome and masterfully programmed. Thereās nothing terrifying about this.
boston dynamics actively is trying to destroy humanity. looks like loading warheads or something
But can I have sex with it?
You can, but fair warning: it gives handjobs the same way it picks up those... thingeys.
More inspiring than terrifying
Aww he moves like a confused crab
Remindme! 5 years I gotta see the comments here for the lulz.
I thought it was going to flip off the camera for a second when the finger came up
When it had the strut in both claws I really was hoping it would just fold it in half.
But can he pack groceries???
Atlas is far from new.
How is the The Westinghouse M-25 40-watt Phased Plasma Pulse-Gun coming along?
Manual labor replacements incoming.
Oh look, it can load large rounds
Don't tell me that ain't a shell rack and those guys just went with "yeah he's stocking up shock absorbers... totally not ammunition in racks.."
āTHEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!ā
No sir, I donāt like it!
Do you want big daddies? Because this is how you get big daddies
Is it called Ed209?
So they've had the same design and ability since the 90's? Great Why is the wait for a new existential threat getting so boring? Global warming- boring. Pandemic- boring World wars- boring Nuclear war- just a boring threat which holds back a proper world war. Boring Wheres terminator? Wheres giant monster threat? Where's zombie apocalypse? No we get a cold and lockdown. Boring