Author Topic: Terminator Scenario (Read 178142 times)

Rooftop · « **Reply #105 on:** October 19, 2013, 07:44:20 AM »

Now the plan is to give them automatic rifles and grenade launchers...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/10/weaponized-military-robots/

What could go wrong?

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This isn’t the first time the Pentagon has played with weaponized robots, but earlier experiments proved such machines weren’t ready for primetime after some of them moved without commands.

Oh. That's what could go wrong

Drastic · « **Reply #106 on:** October 21, 2013, 01:57:36 PM »

As long as there's some 19 year old xbox expert at the helm of the remote, we should be safe, ya?

rcjordan · « **Reply #107 on:** October 22, 2013, 03:10:02 PM »

Not even the Olympics is safe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJMeAAMvm0

Drastic · « **Reply #108 on:** October 24, 2013, 05:14:22 PM »

That little thing was a trip, stuck landing and all.

Chunkford · « **Reply #109 on:** November 01, 2013, 10:43:43 PM »

assimilation is futile - www.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57610486-1/implanted-bluetooth-biochip-gets-under-hackers-skin/

rcjordan · « **Reply #110 on:** November 01, 2013, 11:11:09 PM »

Here's the Governator being served by his tiny robotic minions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIvsjUdv9Q

Here's one that's not so tiny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHtMNFZLMWE

bill · « **Reply #111 on:** December 15, 2013, 03:07:20 AM »

Game over.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/14/google-bought-boston-dynamics-its-over-for-humans/

rcjordan · « **Reply #112 on:** December 15, 2013, 03:49:48 AM »

I'd seen it, but was trying to stay in denial. This felt ...ominous. Not kidding.

grnidone · « **Reply #113 on:** December 18, 2013, 03:08:50 PM »

Google wants a piece of the defense contracts…wonder how making war machines will work for their "do no evil" stance…

Rooftop · « **Reply #114 on:** December 18, 2013, 06:34:51 PM »

Quote from: grnidone on December 18, 2013, 03:08:50 PM

Google wants a piece of the defense contracts…wonder how making war machines will work for their "do no evil" stance…

I'm not convinced that is their motivation. I've no idea what Boston Dynamics filing cabinet full of patents looks like, but I'm betting that is a significant motivation. I suspect that a few years will pass then they'll announce some near lunacy idea that suddenly makes this move make sense.

I suspect that the military contracts were if anything a major downside to the deal.

BD robots are bloody terrifying though.

ergophobe · « **Reply #115 on:** December 19, 2013, 01:36:05 AM »

Luddites!

bill · « **Reply #116 on:** December 19, 2013, 02:55:19 AM »

...and just in case we forget

DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s

littleman · « **Reply #117 on:** December 19, 2013, 05:57:39 AM »

This guy seems to think that a superior AI will eventually come out of the financial sector.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5ZtvNECMI
The lecture is a bit dry, but it lays out some of the possibilities and dangers.

bill · « **Reply #118 on:** December 31, 2013, 02:59:34 AM »

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/spider-robot-with-death-ray-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-1491507101/@jesusdiaz
The end is nigh

rcjordan · « **Reply #119 on:** December 31, 2013, 03:19:25 PM »

I need one of those!

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