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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobots taking over
Boston Dynamics' robot figured out how to open doors
Terrifying......
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Robots taking over (Original Post)
Bayard
Aug 2019
OP
A convincing argument could be made the umbrella is smarter than our Stable Genius . . .
Journeyman
Aug 2019
#5
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)1. Not sure why
they said the robot opened the door to "free its friend" ... how do we know the first robot was being "held"?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,691 posts)2. The creepiest thing about those robots is
that they have no "heads."
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)10. Well, your president has no brains. So there. n/t
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,691 posts)13. But the robots are clearly smarter without heads
than Dolt 45 is, even with the lumpy orange excrescence he calls a head.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)3. Yeah, but can they open or close umbrellas?
If they can do that then theyre smarter than Trump.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)5. A convincing argument could be made the umbrella is smarter than our Stable Genius . . .
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)4. The humans are dead...
Sid
Mersky
(4,981 posts)9. +0000001111101000
Ahh, Flight of the Conchords. Good freakin' stuff.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)6. As long as they don't have opposable thumbs we can probably hold out. n/t
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)14. That one opened a door with the equivalent of an opposable thumb
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)7. They're still doing only what they're programmed to do
When they start creating/revising their own code, that's when we should be terrified!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)17. Exactly.
They only be one a threat when they can generate an idea that was not programmed into them.
harumph
(1,900 posts)8. Someone design new door handles!
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)11. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. n/t
Baclava
(12,047 posts)12. I, for one, welcome our cyborg overlords
johnp3907
(3,731 posts)15. There's always the Buster Keaton Defense.
Igel
(35,303 posts)16. I saw that quite a while back.
By modern standards of "quite a while back." Certainly further back than July.
I rather like that it looks like an automaton-dog.
Without looking like K-9.