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Does anyone else feel creeped out by these robots? Put a flamethrower on and some intelligence into Spot, and have the intelligence decide that humans are bad.

• m-app 12y ago
  It's just a walking robot. Drones have been here for a lot longer and already carry deadly weapons. Following your logic, you should've been scared and running for years already.
  • derefr 12y ago
    Indeed; further, if we actually wanted something that could climb into your house and shoot you remotely without expending human life—we could have just stuck a turret to a cellphone to a police dog. Robots are scary only because they allow for ubiquitous drone warfare—millions of drones just clogging the streets, or maybe small enough to hide in the shadows like stray pets. For targeted drone warfare, though, we've already had the technology for a long, long time.
    • jpindar 12y ago
      Police departments already use robots with cameras and guns. But because they're small and have tank treads rather than legs no one seems worried about them.
  • blechx 12y ago
    To be fair, if you ask people in Yemen, 'scared and running' is probably exactly to the point. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-ye...
• onion2k 12y ago
  No less scary than a human with a flamethrower deciding which humans are bad. At least with the robot there's the potential for the excuse that it's gone wrong rather than wanting to kill people for whatever reason.
  • Shivetya 12y ago
    which is more frightening. Oh, the robot did it. Great, like that is going to make it all okay. Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices, now who are we going to blame? The programmer or the robot? I guess whomever ever has the least protection under the law, the robot certainly won't care
    • askmike 12y ago
      > Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices This has been happening since thousands of years before drones came along. Humans are used since the beginning of time..
    • 1stop 12y ago
      We don't have any military autonomous drones... there is pilot pulling the trigger... so I don't understand your point.
• hmottestad 12y ago
  Definitively creepy. I was thinking about the two legged robots in start wars, walker something or other.
• akavel 12y ago
  Halfway through the movie, when suddenly there are two of them, now this was creepy to me... like if the first one suddenly cloned effortlessly... and now both are happily hopping along, never tired, we're just harmless, funny guys, you know, your best friends!... <shudder>
  • prawn 12y ago
    Climbing the hill with their eye crazily spinning around!
• Cthulhu_ 12y ago
  Less scary than an automated or remote-controlled drone shooting a missile from a few kilometers away TBH. Easier to kill, too. Probably a lot cheaper to produce, too. And more effective.
• jp_sc 12y ago
  It remind me at these enemies from Half Life 2 ep2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-tV7zOEPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-tV7zOEPU