Google's "SkyNet" Robots

[brian64]

What could go wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
Article:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-24/googles-skynet-robots-are-all-grown-and-downright-terrifying

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cue the music, we're screwed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZ2NShfCE8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[fordm60]

Sshhhhhheeeettt, we have been screwed for a while lol!

 

[gtclark]

Gyah! Kill it! Kill it with fire!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sshhhhhheeeettt, we have been screwed for a while lol!

I know, but thankfully we still have rednecks to combat the robot apocalypse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ttSwYNspw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[brian64]

@chasingembers: lol, incredible.
My personal favorite is the "EATR" robot (you can't make stuff like this up). But don't worry, even though it is obviously the ideal solution to cleaning up a post-apocalyptic body-strewn landscape, DARPA promises that is "not their mission".
DARPA'S SELF-FEEDING SENTRY ROBOT IS NOT A MAN-EATER, COMPANY PROTESTS
"WE COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE PUBLIC'S CONCERN ABOUT FUTURISTIC ROBOTS FEEDING ON THE HUMAN POPULATION, BUT THAT IS NOT OUR MISSION," SAYS CEO
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/hungry-hungry-robot-not-man-eater-company-says

 

[woodsroad]

If you talked about this stuff 5 years ago, you would have been written off in an instant as an insane troll. Today, we accept the invasion of AI-driven robots right along side transgender hero celebrities and a president that hates his country and despises the majority of it's citizens. Progress has never been more regressive.

 

[robwoodall]

Technology is bad.
My computer is powered by fairy magic and I wait for accidental lightening strikes to light my pipes.

 

[stvalentine]

If we carry on like this this movie might become reality:
http://www.thebicyclemonarchy.com/

 

[brian64]

Technology is bad.

Technology is neutral. The agenda of those funding and/or wielding it is another question. For example, like, oh I don't know...computerized voting machines maybe?
@stvalentine: I'll have to try and take a look at that if I can find the time.

 

[killerchameleon]

I don't mind letting machines take over all my manual labor type activitys, as I get older I find myself unable to do the things I use to do. If I find the machines sneaking into my tobacco stash and stealing my pipes I will have to terminate them.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It all started with answering machines. Then computers were sold to us as "time saving devices." Then came solitaire, tetris, social media... now if you don't have one, you can't register your car tag or pay your water bill is some places... Could Apple be considered a feudal lord?

 

[robwoodall]

Technology is neutral. The agenda of those funding and/or wielding it is another question.

True on both counts! I just wanted to post a pro-technology stance in anticipation of the rabidly anti-tech, anti-science rants I was expecting. Which never materialized, so now I'm kind of embarrassed.