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Why do they always gotta smack around the robots like that :(
by dluan 11y ago
Why do they always gotta smack around the robots like that :(
- toomuchtodo 11y agoTo show how quickly the robot can compensate to having its center of gravity shifted (balance). But man oh man, the robots are going to nice look kindly on us later.
- pca184 11y agohaha yeah. There's something slightly terrifying at 2:18 when when the robot gets pushed down, stops, then 'jumps' back up. I was half expecting it to start attacking the guy
- lsiunsuex 11y agoNot gonna lie - kinda felt bad for it.
- dluan 11y agoSomeone on the internet said that humankind's biggest conflict will be between the two sides of those who believe in A.I. as life and those who don't. This is kind of getting us there.
- krapp 11y agoThere's little doubt in my mind this technology will be employed to exterminate villages full of "terrorists" by the US military in the future. You don't even need to invoke AI for that scenario, just VR and maybe whatever Google puts into their autonomous cars.
- rl3 11y agoThere's no need to exterminate anything. When you have robotic infantry deployed at theater scale, a largely non-lethal peacekeeping approach could be taken with relative ease. I'd argue robotic infantry would be a massive leap towards improving the security and humanitarian situations in some of the world's most terrible places. Unlike long-term deployment of human soldiers, political will wouldn't really factor in to robotic deployments. That would translate to less genocide and suffering in the world.
- j1vms 11y agoAt one point at least, people surmised that atomic weapons would lead to greater success in peace-keeping throughout the world. Not so sure it's turning out that way.
- krapp 11y ago>Unlike long-term deployment of human soldiers, political will wouldn't really factor in to robotic deployments. Aren't all military deployments an expression of political will, though?
- edvinbesic 11y agoI imagine videos like these being used in future trials to show humans torturing robots.
- njharman 11y agoAll I know is a great prank would be to program Atlas; after being pushed to jump around and start chasing that guy, yelling "Come here squishy human, I want to test your cranium for compressibility"
- shostack 11y agoAfter a few times where the guy with the hockey stick smacked down the box and moved it away, I half expected Atlas to look at the box, then look at the stick, and grab the stick and attack the guy with it.