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It's crazy how these records are just quietly being broken by humanoid robots. What's next? What a time to be alive.

by mbeavitt 1mo ago

grim_io 1mo ago
Horses are faster than humans. I don't see them suddenly taking over based on that fact alone.
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- hobofan 1mo ago
  You can't "program" a horse to do construction or assembly line jobs, can you?
  - qayxc 1mo ago
    My contacts at various factories and my own eyes after touring said factories tell me that the assembly lines have been mostly run by programmed (no quotes required, just SPS) robots for the past 50 years or so. Welcome back to the 1970s I guess? The ones I see deployed in construction do stuff like drilling holes in hard to reach places, or laying bricks. None of them look like people, though. Much like the typical household dishwasher hasn't been named Alice or Doris for the past 50+ years, but rather Bosch or Samsung and doesn't use actual hands. But yeah, humanoid robots do look cool and many movies and books told us to be fearful of them.
qsera 1mo ago
>What a time to be alive. Totally. In a little while, you might even be able to marry a robot and even raise robot kids. What a time to be alive indeed! I highly doubt that that it will happen. But just mocking the celebration of paving a path towards the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain..
- blaufuchs 1mo ago
  Yknow, for a tech news aggregation website, some of you really hate technology
  - p_j_w 1mo ago
    Do you think people on hackernews should embrace every use of technology?
  - Retric 1mo ago
    Technology isn’t a single unified thing. People can like GPS while disliking nuclear weapons without any contradiction. I dislike the vast waste of resources happening during the current AI bubble, and don’t really care about generative AI.
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- skeledrew 1mo ago
  > the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain I'd say that's the problem. There are people who think humans are uniquely special/purposed, and AI is systematically destroying that notion. They need to wake up, or they may find themselves jumping off a bridge or something.
  - qsera 1mo ago
    Humans are special because they can feel. You know what it means to "feel", right?
    - skeledrew 1mo ago
      Feelings are ultimately electrical patterns in the brain, just like everything else humans experience. And as such they can be manipulated and reproduced in any sufficiently capable brain-substrate. Only a matter of time before machines that can feel also become a thing, and then what's left?
gruturo 1mo ago
> What's next? Killer robots which can't be outrun and which can give chase through urban landscapes > What a time to be alive Indeed.
- ncr100 1mo ago
  What's next: Waiting patiently, as the perfect sniper. First hiking 10 miles into enemy territory. Then laying down in low-power mode, for 120 days. Finally waiting for "important enemy person" to pass by, and then using a weapon with super-human sensory skills + weaponry. Note - Does not need to be humanoid. We need to start Waging Peace, as our ability to kill each other is outstripping our willingness to live peacefully together.
- wlonkly 1mo ago
  It's my impression that the killer robot industry has focused primarily on dog-shaped robots over human. Being bipedal gave us a lot of advantages, but "incredibly fast runner" isn't one of them. Usain Bolt is incredibly fast for a human, but cheetahs are twice as fast still (and, presumably, can climb stairs too). I do appreciate the engineering achievement on its own, but there seems to be an implied "and will replace humans" vibe here that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It's crazy how these records are just quietly being broken by humanoid robots. What's next? What a time to be alive.

grim_io 1mo ago

Horses are faster than humans. I don't see them suddenly taking over based on that fact alone.

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hobofan 1mo ago
You can't "program" a horse to do construction or assembly line jobs, can you?
- qayxc 1mo ago
  My contacts at various factories and my own eyes after touring said factories tell me that the assembly lines have been mostly run by programmed (no quotes required, just SPS) robots for the past 50 years or so. Welcome back to the 1970s I guess? The ones I see deployed in construction do stuff like drilling holes in hard to reach places, or laying bricks. None of them look like people, though. Much like the typical household dishwasher hasn't been named Alice or Doris for the past 50+ years, but rather Bosch or Samsung and doesn't use actual hands. But yeah, humanoid robots do look cool and many movies and books told us to be fearful of them.

qsera 1mo ago

>What a time to be alive. Totally. In a little while, you might even be able to marry a robot and even raise robot kids. What a time to be alive indeed! I highly doubt that that it will happen. But just mocking the celebration of paving a path towards the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain..

blaufuchs 1mo ago
Yknow, for a tech news aggregation website, some of you really hate technology
- p_j_w 1mo ago
  Do you think people on hackernews should embrace every use of technology?
- Retric 1mo ago
  Technology isn’t a single unified thing. People can like GPS while disliking nuclear weapons without any contradiction. I dislike the vast waste of resources happening during the current AI bubble, and don’t really care about generative AI.
deleted 1mo ago
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skeledrew 1mo ago
> the death of all things that makes being a human worth all the pain I'd say that's the problem. There are people who think humans are uniquely special/purposed, and AI is systematically destroying that notion. They need to wake up, or they may find themselves jumping off a bridge or something.
- qsera 1mo ago
  Humans are special because they can feel. You know what it means to "feel", right?
  - skeledrew 1mo ago
    Feelings are ultimately electrical patterns in the brain, just like everything else humans experience. And as such they can be manipulated and reproduced in any sufficiently capable brain-substrate. Only a matter of time before machines that can feel also become a thing, and then what's left?

gruturo 1mo ago

> What's next? Killer robots which can't be outrun and which can give chase through urban landscapes > What a time to be alive Indeed.

ncr100 1mo ago
What's next: Waiting patiently, as the perfect sniper. First hiking 10 miles into enemy territory. Then laying down in low-power mode, for 120 days. Finally waiting for "important enemy person" to pass by, and then using a weapon with super-human sensory skills + weaponry. Note - Does not need to be humanoid. We need to start Waging Peace, as our ability to kill each other is outstripping our willingness to live peacefully together.
wlonkly 1mo ago
It's my impression that the killer robot industry has focused primarily on dog-shaped robots over human. Being bipedal gave us a lot of advantages, but "incredibly fast runner" isn't one of them. Usain Bolt is incredibly fast for a human, but cheetahs are twice as fast still (and, presumably, can climb stairs too). I do appreciate the engineering achievement on its own, but there seems to be an implied "and will replace humans" vibe here that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.