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Cyberdyne Ready to Mass Produce Cyborgs

17 points by kkleiner 18y ago

quoderat 18y ago
HN would probably be against any Sarah Connor jokes, so I'll just observe that I think we are near the nexus where AI and robotics have a (hopefully) harmonious merger. And if not, I hope someone listens to Yudkowsky.
- randallsquared 18y ago
  > And if not, I hope someone listens to Yudkowsky. I think the chances of that are really slim. EY's best hope is to be the creator of AI, but waiting until he has a full theory of FAI first (if I understand what he's doing correctly) seems to make it much more likely he'll be beat, even if he otherwise wouldn't be (which I have no opinion on).
  - jibiki 18y ago
    I think we could hope that AI advance will be gradual, so that an eye-opening crisis with non-friendly AI occurs before truly strong AI develops.
    - randallsquared 18y ago
      We can hope that. Another thing we could hope is that we don't really figure out what makes intelligence tick until after the (temporary) end of scarcity or until after uploading is possible. Given our problems with building large software systems, it seems possible to me that we'll be able to copy the brain before we understand enough to build intelligence without such copying. This puts me in the bizarre position of being very interested in languages and systems which directly address complexity, while hoping in some ways that we fail to figure out how to build significantly more complex systems from scratch. :)
jerryji 18y ago
Does it belong to the 800 Series or the T-1000?
bitwize 18y ago
Let me know when they release a Varia Suit with Screw Attack option.
geedee77 18y ago
There's something creepy about a company called Cyberdyne creating robotic things ... You have to admire him for saying he won't sell to the military, although the inevitable big check from Uncle Sam will take some refusing.
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ivankirigin 18y ago
The tendency of robotics news to be tinted with the Terminator story arc is very bad for the industry. I have never read a story from Wired about robotics that didn't mention Terminator. That's just lazy writing. Engadget it pretty bad too.
- mattyb 18y ago
  To be fair, this company is called Cyberdyne, which is the same name as the company behind Skynet in the Terminator films.
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    Hmm I've been tracking this suit for a while, and didn't catch that. Whoops. It's a fucking retarded name for a robotics company.
streety 18y ago
Does anyone know what the power source for this is? "Its rechargeable 100 Volt ACDC power source will run for five hours for normal activity." To me that reads as an AC-DC converter which makes little sense for a battery. The cyberdyne website describes the power source as, "Battery Drive Charged battery( AC100V)" I'm missing the significance of the AC The cyberdyne website also states, "Continuous operating time Approximately 2 hours 40 minutes" I wonder where they got 5 hours?

17 points by kkleiner 18y ago

HN would probably be against any Sarah Connor jokes, so I'll just observe that I think we are near the nexus where AI and robotics have a (hopefully) harmonious merger. And if not, I hope someone listens to Yudkowsky.

randallsquared 18y ago
> And if not, I hope someone listens to Yudkowsky. I think the chances of that are really slim. EY's best hope is to be the creator of AI, but waiting until he has a full theory of FAI first (if I understand what he's doing correctly) seems to make it much more likely he'll be beat, even if he otherwise wouldn't be (which I have no opinion on).
- jibiki 18y ago
  I think we could hope that AI advance will be gradual, so that an eye-opening crisis with non-friendly AI occurs before truly strong AI develops.
  - randallsquared 18y ago
    We can hope that. Another thing we could hope is that we don't really figure out what makes intelligence tick until after the (temporary) end of scarcity or until after uploading is possible. Given our problems with building large software systems, it seems possible to me that we'll be able to copy the brain before we understand enough to build intelligence without such copying. This puts me in the bizarre position of being very interested in languages and systems which directly address complexity, while hoping in some ways that we fail to figure out how to build significantly more complex systems from scratch. :)

jerryji 18y ago

Does it belong to the 800 Series or the T-1000?

bitwize 18y ago

Let me know when they release a Varia Suit with Screw Attack option.

geedee77 18y ago

There's something creepy about a company called Cyberdyne creating robotic things ... You have to admire him for saying he won't sell to the military, although the inevitable big check from Uncle Sam will take some refusing.

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ivankirigin 18y ago

The tendency of robotics news to be tinted with the Terminator story arc is very bad for the industry. I have never read a story from Wired about robotics that didn't mention Terminator. That's just lazy writing. Engadget it pretty bad too.

mattyb 18y ago
To be fair, this company is called Cyberdyne, which is the same name as the company behind Skynet in the Terminator films.
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  Hmm I've been tracking this suit for a while, and didn't catch that. Whoops. It's a fucking retarded name for a robotics company.

streety 18y ago

Does anyone know what the power source for this is? "Its rechargeable 100 Volt ACDC power source will run for five hours for normal activity." To me that reads as an AC-DC converter which makes little sense for a battery. The cyberdyne website describes the power source as, "Battery Drive Charged battery( AC100V)" I'm missing the significance of the AC The cyberdyne website also states, "Continuous operating time Approximately 2 hours 40 minutes" I wonder where they got 5 hours?