I, Robot

[Danjet500]

Human like robot. Kind of cool and creepy at the same time. :shock:

https://youtube.com/embed/rVlhMGQgDkY?rel=0

 

[Fox Mike]

I find that very interesting. I have a friend that works on robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. She had a robot dog at her apartment that 'barked' when someone came to the door. Amazing what we have been able to develop in such a short time. Back in the 60's I was stationed on a Nike Hercules missile site. We had a computer called a "Fire Unit Integrated Facility" (FUIF) that was all vacuum tubes and took up a building about 12' x 12'. They shrunk it down to transistors and it hung on the wall of our Fire Control trailer and was the size of a suitcase. Look today at what your standard handheld cell phone/computer can do and it's size.

 

[Jeepnik]

When the fellow was pushing the box away and shoving the robot, I kept expecting the robot to act like a human and deck that sucker.

How long will it be before young people are marching to protest the enslavement of robots?

 

[Selena]

I wonder how long it takes to discharge the batteries and how long to recharge.

 

[Dave P.]

That's amazing, terminator prototype T-1
Dave

 

[redhawker]

When the fellow was pushing the box away and shoving the robot, I kept expecting the robot to act like a human and deck that sucker.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I was just waiting for it to reach out and smack the guy, LOL.

 

[Fox Mike]

When the fellow was pushing the box away and shoving the robot, I kept expecting the robot to act like a human and deck that sucker.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I was just waiting for it to reach out and smack the guy, LOL.

They seem to have programed in "patience", which in many humans is a lost art.

 

[mohavesam]

Reactive software. Not AI, not reasoning for anticipated events.
A lightswitch "clapper" is not a robot...

 

[Salmoneye]

That's amazing, terminator prototype T-1
Dave

More like a Cylon...

And not sure I like where this could end up...

Even if we CAN keep control in the future, I do not like the idea of Governments having access to armies of metal warriors, or 'police'...

'Reactive', or not...

 

[Colonialgirl]

Hey Robbie;
Fetch me an extra large combination pizza from the Pizza place.
Make it a thin crust, extra cheese and black olives.

 

[mohavesam]

Klaatu barada nikto.

 

[Dave P.]

Well when that thing can snatch that hockey stick, catch a 50 MPH saucer pass, then hit a 8 inch
target at about 40 feet away I'll start to worry.
When it can do it on ice moving at about 25 mph while being slashed, checked and generally
abused......we're screwed.
Dave

 

[PriseDeFer]

No videos of someone handing one a Glock yet? What's the hold up?

 

[cleardatum]

No videos of someone handing one a Glock yet? What's the hold up?

mm, i don't like that idea...

 

[GunnyGene]

Stephen Hawking (among others) has a warning about robots and artificial intelligence:

Two years ago Stephen Hawking told the BBC that the development of full artificial intelligence, could spell the end of the human race.

His was not the only voice warning of the dangers of AI - Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak also expressed their concerns about where the technology was heading - though Professor Hawking's was the most apocalyptic vision of a world where robots decide they don't need us any more.

What all of these prophets of AI doom wanted to do was to get the world thinking about where the science was heading - and make sure other voices joined the scientists in that debate.

That they have achieved that aim was evident on Wednesday night at an event in Cambridge marking the opening of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, designed to do some of that thinking about the implications of AI.

And Professor Hawking was there to help launch the centre. "I'm glad someone was listening," he told the audience.

In a short speech, he outlined the potential and the pitfalls of the technology in his usual vivid language. He reviewed the recent rapid progress in areas like self-driving cars and the triumph of Google's DeepMind in the game of Go - and predicted further advances.

"I believe there is no deep difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be achieved by a computer. It therefore follows that computers can, in theory, emulate human intelligence — and exceed it."

That, he said, could lead to the eradication of disease and poverty and the conquest of climate change. But it could also bring us all sorts of things we didn't like - autonomous weapons, economic disruption and machines that developed a will of their own, in conflict with humanity.

"In short, the rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

More: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37713629

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrZgHQ6t14

 

[sliclee]

China,Russia and us are partners in robots, the next generation soldier. Once told what to do, has be to nuclear somehow.