Robots taking over

[Bayard]

Boston Dynamics' robot figured out how to open doors

Terrifying......

[Delphinus]

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]

2. The creepiest thing about those robots is

that they have no "heads."

[Yavin4]

10. Well, your president has no brains. So there. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. But the robots are clearly smarter without heads

than Dolt 45 is, even with the lumpy orange excrescence he calls a head.

[lunatica]

3. Yeah, but can they open or close umbrellas?

If they can do that then they’re smarter than Trump.

[Journeyman]

5. A convincing argument could be made the umbrella is smarter than our Stable Genius . . .

[SidDithers]

4. The humans are dead...

Sid

[Mersky]

9. +0000001111101000

Ahh, Flight of the Conchords. Good freakin' stuff.

[PoliticAverse]

6. As long as they don't have opposable thumbs we can probably hold out. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

14. That one opened a door with the equivalent of an opposable thumb

[FakeNoose]

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]

17. Exactly.

They only be one a threat when they can generate an idea that was not programmed into them.

[harumph]

8. Someone design new door handles!

[Yavin4]

11. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. n/t

[Baclava]

12. I, for one, welcome our cyborg overlords

[johnp3907]

15. There's always the Buster Keaton Defense.

https://m.

[Igel]

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.