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To me it seems far from only a proof of concept, specially in light of who is financing it and the rest of Boston Dynamics' robots. As inventors, I would say i
by whatfor 13y ago
To me it seems far from only a proof of concept, specially in light of who is financing it and the rest of Boston Dynamics' robots.
As inventors, I would say it's high time we start to think about the consequences of our tech "innovations".
- krapp 13y agoYes but the US military already has armed robots. I could see this maybe being used as a transport but even that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be used to kill people. Though granted if the people it's transporting have guns that's a moot point.
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- turing 13y agoDARPA also financed the Internet. I think we can expect similar public benefits to come out of this research one day.
- whatfor 13y agoExcellent example. But we also failed to build the necessary safeguards to prevent using the Internet as a massive surveillance machine. When will we learn something from our past failures?
- mturmon 13y agoOur past track record is pretty uneven, that's for sure. One starting point is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/AAAI_Presidential_Panel_2008-2009.htm http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/AAAI_P...
- whatfor 13y agoThanks, interesting initiative.