I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Seriously, when these things become sentient, we are screwed.
Here’s my famous quote about robots
Called “ let me know when a robot can do my job”
I’m just a regular old contractor guy , who gets up at seven , drive somewhere , do some work
Here’s a short list of things I Gotta do most days, and I’d love to see any robot do any of them. I know computers is smart ( southern joke ).
but they can’t really do what human beings can do
Like
1- Secure a 32 foot ladder onto the roof of a vehicle
2- Put said ladder off of the roof at jobsite ; and secure to building and roof search for safe travel up and down by employees
3- Manage employees ; keep them busy ; tell them what to do ; Keep them from fighting with each other or wasting time and keep an eye on them and their work
4- Figure out on your own who are the most valuable employees ; and work who can be trusted without you around
5- Take an electrical panel out of the wall - disconnect all of the circuits - figure out how you’re going to put the new one on the wall ; and look pretty !!!
6- put the new service on the wall ; seal it ; reconnect all of the circuits
7- Meet the inspector and pass inspection
So soon as Aruba can do any one of those seven things and I can come up with another 50 or 60 in about 10 minutes
for instance. swim across a pond
I’ll give computers that they’re very very smart
but agile? Not really
The government isn’t putting many tons of taxpayer money into developing these just for them to “dance”. Terminator in your future???
Ha! They had robots in the 50s who could dance better than me.
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until Skynet becomes self-aware...
Come with me if you want to live...
They can’t hold a candle to cousin Patrick.
If you ever saw me dance, “dancing better than me” isn’t exactly an impressive feat.
That was great
It’s impressive that the thing can stay up and and do those basic steps but they are nothing more than basic timed steps and the bot DOES get behind the beat. Humans alternately move ahead of and behind fluidly. This machine does not. It is just late.
Am I wrong to assume that every act of these robots has to be programmed?
If so, AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
I’ve seen worse when the old farts start dancing at the VFW and American Legion...
By way of thanks for posting the news article, I'm posting the link to the Boston Dynamics youtube video.
Future Robots - Boston Dynamics Robot Family Dance for New Year
There's the dancing dog and a two other bipedal robots...great fun in 1080 to the Contours " Do you love me"
Heck, they can kill and dance too.