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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 04:48:19 PM

Title: I, for one, welcome our new mini cheetah overlords.
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 09, 2019, 04:48:19 PM

Amazing


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7665923/MIT-shows-virtually-indestructible-mini-cheetah-robots-new-video.html

Title: Re: I, for one, welcome our new mini cheetah overlords.
Post by: Robbie on November 09, 2019, 06:47:02 PM

Erm........excellent I suppose. I'd like them better if they were smaller and better looking, as they are I find them scary.

Title: Re: I, for one, welcome our new mini cheetah overlords.
Post by: Steve H on November 10, 2019, 07:29:14 AM

Read something similar - a more genersal article about the rise of "general AI" - in 'The Week'. There certainly is the potential for it all to go horribly wrong, but I think the people at the forefront are aware of that, and can hopefully avoid it. Anyway, I don't think we''l hace Commander Datas in my lifetime: the article said within the lifetime of children alive today.

Title: Re: I, for one, welcome our new mini cheetah overlords.
Post by: Robbie on November 10, 2019, 09:26:28 AM

By which time they will no longer be 'overlords', they'll be 'robot-overpersons' or 'egalitarianpersons-robotsex&gender'.

Title: Re: I, for one, welcome our new mini cheetah overlords.
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 26, 2019, 04:12:11 PM

Police and robot dogs


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50559976