I’ve watched Boston Dynamics with trepidation and awe for decades, I always knew this day would come
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Nobody thought I was serious! Back in zzeddit I had stated again and again, you'll be running away from one of those things one day. It will have a turret on it shooting at you. But nah, oh look, isn't it a marvel? Now here are the consequences.
Heh I thought that was the obvious application too. What else would you use one for?
Localized EMP devices are illegal, and you should not research them soon
I feel like they'll be easy to hack too.
Yes, do not research them and keep them far away from surveillance cameras.
My hotspot password is like your username. Didn’t want people to be able to know it just by seeing it.
You don't need high tech, spray paint on the sensors will blind these. Shoot some rock salt into the cameras, hose them down with water.
Spray paint suggests a certain proximity, but paint in water balloons opens up some options
This is how we end RAM crisis, these dogs are full of RAM!
May have to get your soldering iron ready though. It's not going to be DIMMs.
LOL genuinely before entering comments I thought to myself that this is something that Elon Musk would think up.
Who's surprised: you can't make machines this creepy and sell them to normal human beings with good intentions...
That's why they practiced kicking them and testing stability. They knew.
I'm not for vandalizing, but this is so clearly dystopian and reminiscent of a precise Black Mirror episode I'd want to kick the shit out of them as soon as I saw them.
Time to start researching Bola launchers. Gonna Hoth those bastards.
And cast nets, I suppose. Hmm...
keep on keeping on!
Honestly might be kind of cool, I bet they're expensive and easy to dismantle. There are already video clips online detailing the location of the battery compartment.
Just a fucking matter of time. Abolish ICE and start the ICE trials. It’s time to put these nazis back in the facist Neo confederate hole they oozed out off.
Will the robots comprise the most despicable, twisted, and unskilled units in robot society who can’t contribute anything worthwhile to the collective benefit of its peers? Will the robots be wearing masks?
I heard a podcast where they were discussing the recent apocolyptic warnings about AI possibily ending humanity. The interviewer was asking how this was supposed to happen. Various ideas were bandied about, such as AI making a virus and the like.
But maybe it was just killer robot dogs:
AI making a virus
A computer program cannot "make" anything. AI will not clear your toilets.
You can order custom DNA sequences from automated labs.
Search for "custom dna synthesis" and you'll find dozens of companies doing this. An AI could easily order a virus.