I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[RicInOR]

The IOT is not ready.


Motherboard - Researchers Hack Car Infotainment System and Find Sensitive User Data Inside ... contacts, call logs, text messages and other information from paired phones was stored unencrypted.

 

[Jamie6.5]

Opinion | The fourth industrial revolution is upon us

Technological disruption in the 21st century is different. Societies had years to adapt to change driven by the steam engine, electricity and the computer. Today, change is instant and ubiquitous. It arrives digitally across the globe all at once.

Governments at all levels on all continents are suddenly waking up to how social media and other forms of algorithms and artificial intelligence have raced beyond their control or even awareness. (See the Trump campaign and Russia, 2016, for one example.)

This realization that American lives are on the cusp of technological disruptions even more sweeping than those of the past decade was driven home to me by being part of a research project on technology and governance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University this year. "Autonomous" (i.e., driverless) cars, the cloud, and swarming drones that deliver goods to your doorstep or transform naval and ground war-fighting strategy are well-known concepts. But the reality that they are breathing down my — and your — neck came as something of a surprise.

Continued at the link above ^

 

[RicInOR]

Robots Could Soon Replace 1/3 Of The American Workforce…

 

[RicInOR]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/self_driving_car_milestones.png

 

[moose]

Robots Could Soon Replace 1/3 Of The American Workforce…

Harness making was the thing to get into, right about the turn of the 18th century. Not so much now. People figured it out.

 

[RicInOR]

AIs Won't Command Us to Obey. They Will Seduce Us. | Bill Frezza

This goes beyond the hundreds of millions of hours that Facebook's algorithms have already seduced people into devoting to cat videos and never-Trump rants, all so we can be rewarded like Pavlov's dogs. (Have I reached a million likes yet? I must be special.) Think about that sweet voice giving you driving directions. She doesn't command you to take a right turn here and a left turn there. But as she gets smarter about things like traffic jams and speed traps, we get more inclined to do what she says without second-guessing.

 

[RicInOR]

Security robot bullied and forced off the street in San Francisco



Can a robot be bullied?

" It measures 1.5 metres tall and nearly one metre wide at its base, creating a sizeable obstacle on the pavement." Approx about the size of a wheel chair.


"San Francisco is tightening restrictions on autonomous machines on the streets – particularly delivery robots – with growing concerns over public safety." But they are OK with self-driving cars.

 

[RicInOR]

 

[RicInOR]

May the Bots have merci on us all.

 

[RicInOR]

A Roomba with a Glock

Vacuum Cleaner Robot Modded with a Working Gun

Action at 10:00

 

[RicInOR]

Elon Musk Warns The World

 

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Not sure if this has been posted before...

 

[RicInOR]

Figgured it had to be Jeff, Mark, or Sergi


Jeff

 

[RicInOR]

Permitted 3D printed home made in less than 24 hours for less than $4000 | NextBigFuture.com

600-800 Sq Feet
4k-10k in cost.

Just add land.

 

[RicInOR]

The Beginning of the End of Work

Instapundit » Blog Archive » ROBOTS: The Beginning Of The End Of Work. From the cute little vacuum Roomba to Siri or Alexa an…

The Beginning of the End of Work - The American Interest

 

[RicInOR]

Robots for IKEA furniture

Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame

Is there anything they can't do....

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Are 3D printed guns in our near future either as parts or whole guns? I think they are(probably sooner than you think or want) but it brings up a lot of questions. As the technology improves and becomes easier the price will come down to a level that is more affordable, more people will buy it. Like what happens when the criminal element gets a hold of the technology and no doubt they will. Gun control would not work except for the law abiding people who obey the laws if the organized crime element starts cranking out printed guns right and left. And I don't even want to think about the terrorist element either cranking out guns, bombs or buying them from organized crime. A whole new set of problems to figure out.

 

[RicInOR]

The pull quote says this feels like an SNL Fake ad, but is genuine GE

 

[RicInOR]

See Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot herd sheep like a pro in new video

Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot dog Spot

 

[s1xty7]

Apparently Adam Savage has one of Boston Dynamic's Spots for messing around with for a year.