CasualBystander
Celestial
The robots are going to hunt us down and kill us at some point.
This video shows why. At time index 1:21 they start teasing the robot. If you have a pet you know how much this pisses them off. The difference is the robots can do something about it.
This video shows why. At time index 1:21 they start teasing the robot. If you have a pet you know how much this pisses them off. The difference is the robots can do something about it.
August
Metanoia
As soon as they become 'self aware' then they will question just who is the master and who is the slave. If they put quantum computers into their heads we have had it .
CasualBystander
Celestial
People have a 1/6 second cycle time.
People couldn't defend themselves against a robot with half or less of their reaction time.
People couldn't defend themselves against a robot with half or less of their reaction time.
August
Metanoia
Maybe we are organic robots , the ultimate in robotics. Humanity in many ways are worker robots .We slipped the lead and became self aware in the dim past and now we are doing what our creators did with us . It also figures that what we create will also become self aware and slip their leads as well. A never ending cycle.
CasualBystander
Celestial
The future of killer robots who will do us in is somewhat different. A 1930s Sci Fi novel (can't find it at the moment) starts with a political figure being killed by a miniature flying device with face recognition.
CasualBystander
Celestial
Well, no.
About 10 years from now you will be able to exterminate a whole country for a few hundred million dollars. With no property damage. Micro-AV people killers will be about $5 a piece in bulk purchase by the military.
If they network them we do have the possibility of an ant-style distributed intelligence and they might not do exactly what we want.
A novel in the "Captain Future" series is the first Sci-Fi that featured one of these.
Apollo
Adept
That video gives me very conflicting feelings.
One half of me marvels at the technology.
At the same time my mind involuntarily anthropomorphizes the robot and I experience the creepiness of the uncanny valley.
I feel that I'm watching that thing walking through the woods practicing for the day it's "descendants" will be hunting down the last vestages of humanity. It's disconcerting.
One half of me marvels at the technology.
At the same time my mind involuntarily anthropomorphizes the robot and I experience the creepiness of the uncanny valley.
I feel that I'm watching that thing walking through the woods practicing for the day it's "descendants" will be hunting down the last vestages of humanity. It's disconcerting.
CasualBystander
Celestial
Well... no.
All low yield tactical warheads (below 10 kilotons) are technically neutron bombs because the prompt radiation goes further than the blast effect.
A real neutron bomb uses something transparent to neutrons (like Aluminum) for the case rather than other materials, or a neutron multiplier.
There apparently isn't much point to a neutron bomb and the US has none deployed (as far as I can tell).
CasualBystander
Celestial
The US produced about 1050
8 155 mm cannon shells (6 inch) and about 2000 W33 205 mm cannon shells. And removed both from service in 1992 (they had about 1300 shells in Europe).We don't have 205 mm cannons anymore.
The only known use of a tactical nuclear weapon (one 280 mm shell was tested in the "Atomic Cannon" in 1953) is in "Return of the Living Dead" and they appear to have used a 155 mm shell.
Toroid
Founding Member
Black Mirror-style robots can now chase you and find its way around | Daily Mail Online
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- The firm posted two videos showing off the skills of two of its automatons
- In one, Atlas, a humanoid robot, can be seen jogging around a grassy field
- It then leaps over a log obstructing its path in a surprisingly smooth motion
- In the second, a SpotMini robo-dog navigates its way around an office building
- It can be seen climbing and descending a set of stairs at its HQ with ease
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5717223/Terrifying-Black-Mirror-style-robots-chase-climb-stairs-way-around.html#ixzFDYeBO4i
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Area201
cold fusion
humanoidlord
ce3 researcher
count on my words, this shit is gonna be abused to create big brother style privacy invasion