Terminator Scenario

[Rooftop]

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?

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]

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

[rcjordan]

Not even the Olympics is safe:

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

[Drastic]

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

[Chunkford]

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

[rcjordan]

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]

Game over.

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

[rcjordan]

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

[grnidone]

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

[Rooftop]

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]

Luddites!

[bill]

...and just in case we forget

DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s

[littleman]

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]

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

[rcjordan]

I need one of those!