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.
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?
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.
This is very expensive compared to open Chinese dog platforms that have much more deployments. I don’t know the hardware capabilities comparison among alternatives, but they just need to climb stairs and have a camera, even if “all humanity will
lovesee” them as a machine gun platform, or perhaps kung fu suspect incapacitation moves.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.
Until they finally taste human flesh.
So, no MG mount?
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.
“data”. More like digital noise almost indistinguishable from white noise at the large scale.
They already had this tech back in 1979.
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.
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?
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…
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?
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.
I bet these would be fooled by you dressing as a bear. Or a horse.
Won’t they be commanded to also attack all bears and horses?
I think they wouldn’t know what to do with a horse. If it’s AI powered it’ll probably ignored. If it’s hand programmed I doubt the programmers considered horse or horse like beings
Ok so I read the article and turns out there are no proper attacking capabilities yet, but it is possible that the control AI which is receiving all video feed will raise and alarm on finding something unexpected, assuming the programing is done properly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lol
Phew good thing all the glass fiber from the coming drone war will make them useless.
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
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.
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.
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!
A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.
AI datacentres hope to last forever.
