Remember Boston Dynamics and their Atlas robots? They are dancing now | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78462171 United States 01/05/2021 09:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] That’s fricken terrifying! |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77603583 Germany 01/05/2021 09:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] That’s fricken terrifying! It is... absolutely. In fact, that whole idea of making machines that look like humans and are able to do anything human can do... is terrifying itself, if you think a bit further. It makes me think of those jackasses you see in those "funny" videos who get too cocky for their own good and then go on breaking their necks or something like that.... Absolutely misplaced self-confidence that can only end up in disaster. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79393931 United Kingdom 01/05/2021 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] oh yea im sure thats going to help sell them to potential clients.... heres a video of our robots dancing... WTF!! show them working on complex production lines at breakneck speed... Then you might sell them. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77603583 Germany 01/05/2021 11:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anyway, be that as it may... I am not trying to impress anyone really. I just hope what I am trying to say will get some resonance with people who care enough to give it some thought. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77603583 Germany 01/05/2021 11:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] oh yea im sure thats going to help sell them to potential clients.... heres a video of our robots dancing... WTF!! show them working on complex production lines at breakneck speed... Then you might sell them. Maybe you didn't get the memo... GLP is supposed to be a place where people with working critical minds are gathering... not potential buyers of the latest robots. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79393931 United Kingdom 01/05/2021 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] oh yea im sure thats going to help sell them to potential clients.... heres a video of our robots dancing... WTF!! show them working on complex production lines at breakneck speed... Then you might sell them. Maybe you didn't get the memo... GLP is supposed to be a place where people with working critical minds are gathering... not potential buyers of the latest robots. How do you know im not a potential client? |
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MaybeTrollingUAgain User ID: 79764073 Brazil 01/05/2021 12:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] That’s fricken terrifying! It is... absolutely. In fact, that whole idea of making machines that look like humans and are able to do anything human can do... is terrifying itself, if you think a bit further. It makes me think of those jackasses you see in those "funny" videos who get too cocky for their own good and then go on breaking their necks or something like that.... Absolutely misplaced self-confidence that can only end up in disaster. Well OP, I work with IT and automation. I can tell you for sure that machines not ONLY do what humans can do, they can do it faster, better, cheaper and safer. There is a whole sociology field related to industry 4.0 where machines can do even basically all non-skilled labor. I've seen quarries firing 90% of workers overnight with the bought of a few equipment that will do the same task, more productively, cheaper, better quality, safer and more reliably. Now expand this scenario to basically all fields. That's a lot of people out of job and no perspective of getting another one for lack of skill. And expand it worldwide, you'll get a recipe for a disaster. Personally, I think even this pandemic is handy for this to happen faster. MaybeTrollingUAgain |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77371465 Germany 01/05/2021 10:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As an analogy its like me applying for a job turning up at the interview and saying, well heres a video of me on level 166 of world of warcraft! aren't i amazing.. can i have the job. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79393931 Yes, I can see what you are saying. But maybe the purpose of those dancing robots was not selling them, but making them look less terrifying to the general public. See what I mean? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77371465 Germany 01/05/2021 10:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You might ask yourself... WHY in hell would they want to do this? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 When I'm 85 and need assistance they will be helping me, that is one reason, an automated fighting force is probably another reason. Will they also lend a listening ear? Will you delude yourself into hearing actual kindness in their electronic voice? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77371465 Germany 01/05/2021 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It looks so harmless. Nice robots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77603583 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Original article: Boston Dynamics Robots Dance Better Than the Rest of Us [link to coolmaterial.com (secure)] That’s fricken terrifying! It is... absolutely. In fact, that whole idea of making machines that look like humans and are able to do anything human can do... is terrifying itself, if you think a bit further. It makes me think of those jackasses you see in those "funny" videos who get too cocky for their own good and then go on breaking their necks or something like that.... Absolutely misplaced self-confidence that can only end up in disaster. Well OP, I work with IT and automation. I can tell you for sure that machines not ONLY do what humans can do, they can do it faster, better, cheaper and safer. There is a whole sociology field related to industry 4.0 where machines can do even basically all non-skilled labor. I've seen quarries firing 90% of workers overnight with the bought of a few equipment that will do the same task, more productively, cheaper, better quality, safer and more reliably. Now expand this scenario to basically all fields. That's a lot of people out of job and no perspective of getting another one for lack of skill. And expand it worldwide, you'll get a recipe for a disaster. Personally, I think even this pandemic is handy for this to happen faster. Yes. And to think that these machines will, for many people, replace humans even for ... having SEX with - is truly alarming. |
MaybeTrollingUAgain User ID: 79764073 Brazil 01/05/2021 10:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is... absolutely. In fact, that whole idea of making machines that look like humans and are able to do anything human can do... is terrifying itself, if you think a bit further. It makes me think of those jackasses you see in those "funny" videos who get too cocky for their own good and then go on breaking their necks or something like that.... Absolutely misplaced self-confidence that can only end up in disaster. Well OP, I work with IT and automation. I can tell you for sure that machines not ONLY do what humans can do, they can do it faster, better, cheaper and safer. There is a whole sociology field related to industry 4.0 where machines can do even basically all non-skilled labor. I've seen quarries firing 90% of workers overnight with the bought of a few equipment that will do the same task, more productively, cheaper, better quality, safer and more reliably. Now expand this scenario to basically all fields. That's a lot of people out of job and no perspective of getting another one for lack of skill. And expand it worldwide, you'll get a recipe for a disaster. Personally, I think even this pandemic is handy for this to happen faster. Yes. And to think that these machines will, for many people, replace humans even for ... having SEX with - is truly alarming. To me, is marvelous! I would love a world with less people, especially the religious type. MaybeTrollingUAgain |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79858029 Australia 01/05/2021 10:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Vaccine despenser in one claw. Auto turret in the other. Columns march down the street. Stop. Each one smartly and in formation aproach one door each. Then the words come. "Mmm buzzm click whiirrr...here is your clickm buzz vaccine...buzz click m whiir..please comply..it is for your whiiirr buzzz m click..safety" "Buzz m click...penalty for refusal is instant...buzzz clickm whiirrr...termination..clickmbuzz" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77371465 Germany 01/05/2021 11:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is how far they have come since 2012: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] I do find that jumping/running robot especially amazing. You have to try and imagine/visualize it is really just a machine doing this. |