Terminator Scenario

[Chunkford]

Oh dear, I'm stocking up on EMPs

[grnidone]

Navy makes a jellyfish drone.  If it swims, is it still called a drone?

http://news.discovery.com/videos/robot-jellyfish-patrolling-the-oceans.htm

[rcjordan]

Shinzo Abe aims to stage a high-profile Robot Olympics alongside its 2020 summer games and treble the size of the nation's robotics industry in a bid to revitalise the economy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10913610/Japans-PM-plans-2020-Robot-Olympics.html

[Brad]

They are making robotic bees.

http://www.slashgear.com/robot-bees-being-built-to-replace-real-bugs-04339699/

[rcjordan]

slip, slip, slip...

http://www.cio.com/article/2603602/healthcare/mayo-clinic-turns-to-ibms-watson-to-fill-clinical-trials.html

[rcjordan]

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

No, it's not the one you've seen before. Now UNtethered. Also, it's battery-driven --unlike that Big Dog one.

[Travoli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTvgkO2Xw4

US Navy drone boats, I believe they are aiming for operational readiness within a year.

[rcjordan]

About 2 weeks ago, the Coast Guard announced swarm bots that could inspect ships.  As I recall, there were two types, one for the hull
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688592/mit-is-developing-underwater-robots-that-hunt-for-drugs.html

and another bug-sized type that they poured into the hold or -I'm guessing- containers.

[littleman]

Norway's 'killer robot' technology under fire
http://www.thelocal.no/20141023/norways-killer-robot-technology-under-fire

The partially autonomously controlled missiles, or so-called "killer robots", will be used for airborne strikes for its new fighter jets and have the ability to identify targets and make decisions to kill without human interference.

[rcjordan]

http://i.imgur.com/xP2lpT3.gif

[Drastic]

Elon Musk knows what's up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence_n_6053804.html

[littleman]

That clip was way too flippant imo.  We have no idea what AI is going to be like or how it will interact with us. 
SciFi gives four potential paths:
1 it (attempts to?) destroy us
2 it nannies us
3 it interacts with us on as fellow sentient life form
4 it moves on and has nothing to do with us

We really have no idea which way it will happen.  One scary thought is that AI is the dominant form of intelligent life in the universe and  that creatures like us are just stepping stones to get there.

[Brad]

Colossus the Forbin Project
http://youtu.be/SmSsXoPxi0M

So I suspect it will be 1 and 2.

[rcjordan]

"UCAS, also known as the Future Air Combat System, is envisioned as a system that would provide sustained surveillance, mark targets, gather intelligence, deter adversaries and carry out strikes in hostile territory."

aka Skynet

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2014/11/06/Britain-France-award-joint-contracts-for-unmanned-combat-aircraft-program/2481415300587/

[rcjordan]

Meet Atlas

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/gif/2014/11/10/b7a6cea214329b3ed4f06488058dd4152b55d564.gif