Terminator Scenario

[Rooftop]

Why do they always have to base these things on vicious hunting animals?  Who's side are these scientists on anyway?

The subjugation ib the human race by skynet  would be a lot less swift of there were more research into robot pandas and Guinea pigs.

That one is cool though

[Chunkford]

OMG, I'm freaked out by this - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=733016386721423

[Rooftop]

And they cheat...

http://www.industrytap.com/dastardly-japanese-robot-wins-rock-paper-scissors-100-time/19543

[littleman]

This guy is predicting that we'll have hybrid thinking within 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVXQUItNEDQ

I guess we'll need that to take on all the autonomous robots.

[rcjordan]

Consider this...

When we started this thread (3 forums ago), an article about some noteworthy development would come along about every month or two. Now it's every day or two.

[Chunkford]

It's that's singularity curve RC,

We're all doomed!

All jokes aside though, I am genuinely worried. I think I've watch too many Sci Fi moves.

[rcjordan]

I had 3 keys made by a bot yesterday. It looked like a cnc machine encased in an ATM but it couldn't fool me --I knew it was a bot and that it secretly wanted to filet me.

<added>
All 3 keys worked on the first try so I'm going to keep using the evil bastard.

[rcjordan]

And so it begins....

The humanoid-on-wheels named Pepper senses human gestures and emotions, communicates naturally, and can "make jokes, dance and amuse people,"  $1,900

http://stream.wsj.com/story/markets/SS-2-5/SS-2-548349/

[Rooftop]

"make jokes, dance and amuse people,"

A good 80% of the people I know cannot do those three things.

[Travoli]

Pertinent:

http://i.imgur.com/6RpTZgI.gif

[Travoli]

The first wave is here.

"For $25,000—about the average annual cost of a US production worker's salary—customers can drop Baxter into a repetitive assembly line job and have it work alongside its human counterparts."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/hands-on-with-baxter-the-factory-robot-of-the-future/

[littleman]

>For $25,000—about the average annual cost of a US production worker's salary

Is it really that low now, or are they projecting what it will be once these things are mass deployed?

[nffc]

>Is it really that low

You could ask why it's still that high. Likely 20% of that would be a great wage in China, 10% in many other countries. The fact that your job could be easily replaced with a cheap robot with pay back in less than a year should also sound a few warning bells.

We have similar problems this side of the water, huge numbers of people without any education or training leaving them fit only for very basic manual tasks or unemployment.

How this plays out I have no idea but the robots may even play a part in that.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/packs-of-robots-will-hunt-down.html

[littleman]

Doing the math it makes sense, it just hit me how hard it would be to support a family on that pay.  I know its bad and going to continue to get worse for unskilled labor. 

[nffc]

>how hard it would be to support a family on that pay

In the west very difficult, that's why both partners have to work almost without exception.

Looking back, the biggest change I have seen in my life (forget the internet that is almost inconsequential) is that when I was growing up one person could support a family, that isn't possible now.

Or it is just possible, maybe we just have to forgo the 42 inch plasma TV in the bedroom?

I believe we are entering a very different time, a time where children will be less "wealthy" than their parents, it will be one hell of a ride.