Posted on 11/01/2019 4:41:12 AM PDT by marktwain
A new Bosstown Dynamics video created by Corridor has gone viral. The video has over two million views so far. Many are fooled by the well-done video, assuming that the images are real. It is not hard to understand. There are videos of actual Russian robots shooting guns, videos of dog-like American military experimental robots, and others.
We are on in the process of breakthrough technologies. It is a continuing revolution that started about 500 years ago. We can call this advance the computer revolution, the digital revolution, the information age, or the beginning of the singularity.
The Bosstown Dynamics video is not real. It does not have images of a real robot gunslinger. It is made with clever CGI technology, where the motions of a human actor are used to create an animated video. It is very well done, and can fool nearly anyone. A source called me and asked if I had seen the video. It was described as “scary”. It is scary, perhaps not so much for the Terminator type robot, but for the ability of modern digital technology to create false images that are not easily distinguished from reality.
Bosstown does not have an enormous budget. They have computers, skill, a modest budget, and talent. To their credit, they show how they created the video using CGI. Over two million people watched the fake military robot video so far. Only half a million viewed the video showing it was a fake.
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This was posted last week.
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Link to Bosstown Dynamics explanation of how they faked the Robot videos using CGI
I thought it was funny...well done!
People should never believe what they hear and only half of what they see.
this made me think of Yul Brynner in Westworld. He did a good job acting robotic.
When it first walks up it looks realistic but the video gets silly rather quickly. By the time the clip ends (dont want to spoil the ending) it should be very obvious that none of it was real. I think this story says more about the IQ of the average person that hangs out on Youtube all day than anything else.
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