I'm honestly curious if it was ever about money or just that - if you, you know, ignore the whole "killing people" aspect - killbots are an incredibly difficult

I'm honestly curious if it was ever about money or just that - if you, you know, ignore the whole "killing people" aspect - killbots are an incredibly difficult and complex and cool piece of technology to work on. You go from problems like "can we draw a box around the faces in this artificial dataset" or "can we keep a car between these white lines" to problems like "can we identity a person from a km away while traveling at 100mph" and "how do you take evasive maneuvers" and "can you do all this with hardware mounted on a drone with an acceptable latency". The whole Jurassic Park "you got so wrapped up in asking if you could you didn't ask if you should" thing.