Terminator Scenario

[Rupert]

Attack drones up for sale:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27902634

[rcjordan]

http://diydrones.com/

[Drastic]

Supposed to be able to buy one with a gopro mount soon for 1500.

http://petapixel.com/2014/06/18/airdog-foldable-personal-gopro-drone-always-keeps-view/

[rcjordan]

Well, certain artisans will certainly be out of the job-loss risk zone. Sculptors working with stone, for instance:

https://i.imgur.com/5hWBWGw.gif

Nope.

[rcjordan]

Musk worries about this thread

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/18/elon-musk-deepmind-ai-tesla-motors

[Drastic]

Wow, now this is cool, I may be buying one:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sqdr/hexo-your-autonomous-aerial-camera

This one videos you autonomously, flies around following you according to your specific frame specs with shooting from a gopro.

$800 with, $600 without camera

[Rumbas]

That's awesome! ..and creapy.

[ergophobe]

Looked at the Hexo page and now I get it - if I were a sponsored athlete, it could save me a lot of money on camera crews. I can imagine these will have to be banned at ski areas, skate parks and everywhere else people want rad footage of themselves. They have, by the way, already banned them in Yosemite National Park.

[ps - one of the "ambassadeurs" for this has actually stayed at our house, though I haven't met him... friend of a friend situation]

[littleman]

Looks like we are at the beginning of the rise of the nano-bots:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/18/323243085/someday-soon-you-may-swallow-a-computer-with-your-pill

[Rooftop]

Just had this video recommended to me by Youtube (they're picking up on the things I view as a result of this thread!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn-sMq8-Ls

^ There go our plans to just smash up the robots when then rise. Creepy.

[Rupert]

That little pill...

seems to me it is an insurance companies dream. They will know if you miss taking important tablets, drink too much, sleep too little, even fart alot.

[littleman]

This is sort of the flip side of the coming age of mechanization, what it's like to work in a major distribution center today -- a temporary cog in a wheel that will some day be replaced by a machine.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/brown-box/

[Chunkford]

Giant robots now - http://gizmodo.com/the-man-with-a-plan-to-build-a-70-foot-car-juggling-rob-1596515424

[Travoli]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2672636/Get-ready-Googlebot-Search-giant-start-selling-humanoid-robo-firefighter-winning-military-robo-olympics-contest.html

Google is to start selling a humanoid robot which can walk, climb, use tools and even drive a car.
Called Schaft, the robot was developed by a Japanese firm bought by Google.
It recently won a military 'robo-olympics' - but Google has revealed the machine is being pulled from future rounds of the contest so it can be developed into the firm's first commercial robot.

The video shows it completing some pretty complex tasks.

[rcjordan]

Hey, remember that time Google accidentally made Skynet?

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/24/5835708/google-x-labs-artificial-intelligence-elon-musk-terminator