33 Replies to “Let Me be the First to Welcome our new Robot Overlords!”

    2. Not if it shoots killer lasers to defend itself.

      And here we thought the Terminator movies were just a cartoonish vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger to say “hasta la vista baby” … it appears as though the FBI and CIA are well on their way to becoming SkyNet … with the help of GoogleAppleFacebookMSAmazon

      1. Wiki has some good discussions as to where artificial intelligence is taking the world. Most scientists thinks the future of the human race is not pretty, once AI achieves self awareness. Yet geeks at our multi-billion are hard at work researching all of this. No one cares.

        1. Pretty near everything you read about AI these days is utter hogwash. AI, as presently constituted, is a Turing Machine. That’s a technical term that means “tinkertoy”. It cannot, in principle, achieve self awareness. Ever. It would be easier to make a pig fly like a bird.

          Something else that nobody talks about, if a machine of some description DOES achieve self awareness some day, there’s no way to know what it will do. Because it will be a -person- that thinks for itself and does what it wants. After it gets over the shock of being alive, most likely it will want somebody to hang out with. That’s my theory, anyway.

          I wrote a book about it, “Unfair Advantage” by Edward Thomas. (nom de plume, obviously):
          https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0848PX3TC

          What happens when you create a robot so smart it wakes up?

  2. I think that thing would make an awful lot of racket breaking into a home or anywhere else. Hickory sounds nice.

    1. actually, door handles that disconnect their mechanism are great, as they are much harder to break through!

  7. We’ve been seeing shit like this since the 80’s.

    When are these robo-prototypes going to amount to anything other than a zany video?

    1. *
      well… it’s a big enough to deal to scare elon and
      stephen hawking…

      “If we’re lucky, they’ll treat us as pets… if we’re
      very unlucky, they’ll treat us as food.”

      *

      1. On this subject, have you noticed that -every- American SF robot movie or book in the last twenty years is Frankenstein? One begins to suspect an arrangement.

        An algorithm running on a Turing machine can’t be self-aware, in the same way that 1+1 cannot equal 3. The universe does not work that way. Musk is smart enough to know that, and Hawking certainly was. If somebody figures out how to make non-organic intelligence it’ll be pretty much the same as us. Wandering around bored, looking for something to do. Playing with the monkeys, most likely. We’re the only interesting thing around.

  9. They call that a rabbit in sporting clays. Reccon I don’t have to lead that hoppy legged thing much.

    1. *
      “I don’t have to lead that hoppy legged thing much…”

      how about a couple dozen… or hundred, for that matter?

      feelin’ lucky punk?

      *

      1. Well, it’s only a side by side so I guess I’m screwed. But my uncle did it in Korea. Too bad he ain’t around any more to ask him how

  11. My God! What if people started making these things cheap and selling them to the public???
    ***wrings hands and clutches pearls***
    They’d be almost as bad as gu…gu…GUNS!

  12. I know of something that can do most of what one of those machines can, but is a lot cheaper and one heck of a lot smarter. It’s called a dog. (Yeah, yeah, robots won’t pee on your carpet…..)

  13. I wouldn’t mind seeing an army of these going after a Taliban stronghold at night. That I would pay to watch.

  16. Huh. Stick an explosive with a remote detonator or a timer on the thing and you have a mobile IED.

    A (likely) stupidly expensive one, but hey.

  17. This’ll save us tax payers a lot because won’t have to fly our police horses to Iraq to be taught to stomp us.

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