Hunting without killing animals 👌
Anything to not hire people uh
Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.
The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water…
I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.
Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
But:
- That won’t get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
- You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
- They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.
Ha ha ha, good points.
But can they be hacked to hump their master’s legs???
So I’m not as caught up in the current state of robotics as I’d like… The article talks about these being used to patrol, do safety inspections, and the like.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace each of these with a dozen quadrocopter drones?
It’s psychological in nature, reminder a lot of rich pissants style themselves as futurists.
So when one of these things eventually kill someone, who is held responsible?
How could that possibly happen in this case?
If you had read the article, or even just looked at the picture, you’d see that this is a security camera that walks.
They are heavy and move quickly. All it takes is one shove or trip of an unsuspecting person that falls and cracks their head.
Industrial sites are dangerous and that’s why workers receive safety training and equipment.
These are not intended to interact with the public, they’re intended to replace manned security patrol routes. They’re protected from being a danger to the public by chain link fences and locked doors. The workers who operate them and work around them receive safety training.
In addition to the tens of thousands of dollars of proximity sensors, there’s also a giant red button on their back which shuts them down immediately:
Having robots lets the human workers not go into dangerous situations unnecessarily. Having to patrol inside of an area where halon fire suppression systems are used is inherently dangerous and is more of a common occurrence than having a random untrained and unescorted member of the public enter into a secure area and trip.
Until they finally taste human flesh.
So, no MG mount?
It can be done but doesn’t work that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rliFQ0qyAM
Surprisingly no, and they also don’t have mortars or death ray eyes.
But, you wouldn’t know that reading some of the comments here.
No sad puppy face, either?
how fast can it go and how much does it weigh?
I think that you’ll find you don’t enjoy when 20 kg of steel comes barrelling at your knees
how fast can it go and how much does it weigh?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Boston+Dynamics+Spot+Specifications
I think that you’ll find you don’t enjoy when 20 kg of steel comes barrelling at your knees
What are you, a doctor or something?
The owner usually. They can then sue the producer.
I can only imagine the legal stonewalling. Sue who? The company who hired the device? The manufacturer? Programmers? The leasing company? Everyone passing the legal buck around making it incredibly difficult and expensive for anyone to sue in an attempt to exhaust the victim or their family.
Boston Dynamics doesn’t kill people. It’s its investors for a more fascist world that kill people.
JFC, Black Mirror was supposed to be a warning, not an inspiration. How long until they are given weapons?
a certain megamaniacal administration that will not be named has been turning the screws on AI companies that will also not be named, with the express purpose of combining robots like these with AI and weaponry, to create autonomous anti-personnel robots.
They are several steps ahead of you. They’ve been testing this stuff out in gaza for a couple of years plus. Not the robot dogs per se but autonomous kill bots.
Nothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.
These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.
So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?
I have one as an operator skill on one of my main loadouts. You don’t?
Aren’t EMP’s hard to induce though? Like there is a big one in a nuclear explosion, but outside of that, how can you make one without megawatts of power connected to a vehicle sized device?
Small EMPs are relatively easy to generate and if memory serves there was at least one test in the 90s that was basically an EMP generator that could be shoved into a moving van suck off the grid and then go off. There has been relatively little open research on this subject for obvious reasons.
What is interesting, there was just an article, these scientists made this super magnet that was really small, like 1,000x stronger by size and using way less electricity to do t. I forget some rare earths it was made of. Just a week back maybe wish I read it closer. I wonder if that could make a bigger emp surge easier.
Thankfully we have large vehicles that can drive around vehicle sized devices, and if you’re looking for ridiculous amounts of power, have I got something to tell you about datacenters…
These armies are just open sesame to the right person. They don’t know how to conduct war in modern day only overpower with superior forces. Otherwise they wouldn’t be struggling so much.
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
At this stage, I am willing to go to Mars. There is less chance of techbro oligarchs wanting to destroy the world and killer robot dogs wanting to kill us. Matt Damon has also provided us with a basic manual on how to survive Mars.
Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship
There will be no Mars.
Martial law?
Cemetery is the word you’re looking for. Space is a dead end, no one’s going anywhere.
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
Well, yeah. The episode about robot dogs was specifically referencing these… Boston Dynamics didn’t watch Black Mirror for inspiration, it was the other way around.
Time to learn hexadecimals and how to potato I guess.
On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
“data”. More like digital noise almost indistinguishable from white noise at the large scale.
They already had this tech back in 1979.
multiple football fields
four times the size of Manhattan’s Central ParkAnything other than metric.
Additional features:
industrial inspection, site mapping and construction monitoring
Turns out they have some actual utility.
But cameras can’t smell well enough.
How is this cheaper than hiring a security guard for a couple years?
In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.
Also, the robot is not just an employee, it’s an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.
It’s not, but the robot doesn’t have morals or a conscience or alignment with human values to get in the way. Kinda like billionaires!
Coreweave’s cost of debt is 8%. with 10 years life and no maintenance/electricity cost, that is $54k/year (generously low cost). A security guard can have a gun/rape whistle that stops an intruder, whereas for the robot that would be a premium classified extra option.
AI datacentres hope to last forever.
A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
more than just that one, buddy.
