I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[RicInOR]

bushdog (via Samsung's robot dog is an intriguing faceless smart pet for your surveillance needs | Yanko Design

http://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/tumblr_775c729158faceda3c52a276291bb23b_99bec49d_1280.jpg

Samsung’s robot dog is an intriguing faceless smart pet for your surveillance needs | Yanko Design

www.yankodesign.com

Yenko is a name I associate with Camero's.

 

[Dinglenutz]

We're doomed.
But it'll be fun to watch.

It's OK, we'll be OK. I remember seeing you at those robot rights and anti-abuse protests we attended together. I'm sure the AI remembers.

 

[RicInOR]

Video at Link

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Boston Dynamics
SPOT
Robot Dog

 

[cigars]

My kid is on her schools robotics team. They designed and built this. They went to the World finals in Houston in 2019. I'm sure these kids will be building our flying cars and jet packs soon.

 

[RicInOR]

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

"Our advice to readers - if you're in a low-skilled job that will be heavily impacted by artificial intelligence and automation - now is the time to retrain for another job."



https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020...my-workers-after-hiring-300000-in-last-month/
Now that courts have desided that Gig workers are actually employees, the motivation to eliminate them is high.

 

[RicInOR]

AI as Robot intelligence

Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week - Breaking Defense

In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps’ fire support coordinator says he wouldn’t go to war without it.

breakingdefense.com

 

[RicInOR]

When Robots Enter the World, Who Is Responsible for Them?

We asked ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, and Clearpath Robotics about irresponsible or unethical use of their robots

spectrum.ieee.org

Who is responsible when the AI makes a decision and someone is injured?

This can put robotics companies into a difficult position. When they sell a robot to someone, that person can, hypothetically, use the robot in any way they want. Of course, this is the case with every tool, but it's the autonomous aspect that makes robots unique. I would argue that autonomy brings with it an implied association between a robot and its maker, or in this case, the company that develops and sells it. I'm not saying that this association is necessarily a reasonable one, but I think that it exists, even if that robot has been sold to someone else who has assumed full control over everything it does.

Manufacturer?
Regulator?
Last Programmer? ( think the guy who re-programs the ECU in their vehicle - can that void the warrentee)

 

[RicInOR]

Drones Are Bringing The 19th Hole To Any Hole

Food & Beverage delivery to golfers on the course.



Hmmm, wonder if someone will offer delivery to the anglers on the buoy line - in the Columbia, Willamette, etc ?????

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Or the Oregon city & Clackamas River hoglines. Both sound like monery making ventures as I have participated at both sites. Maybe also offer bait and tackle items.

 

[RicInOR]

Legal rights for robots?

Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"

Delivery fleets are creating fears of a world where people dodge heavy, fast-moving droids.

www.axios.com

ref: https://www.northwestfirearms.com/t...e-our-new-robot-overlords.226622/post-1510051

Where it stands:

Starship Technology, which is in the vanguard of autonomous delivery robots, has deployed its "coolers on wheels" on more than 15 college campuses and begun a grocery-delivery program with Save Mart in Modesto, California.

• "The machines are designed to roll on sidewalks, crosswalks, places where pedestrians can go," Ryan Tuohy, SVP of business development at Starship Technologies, tells Axios.
• "They can carry about 3 bags of groceries or half a dozen pizzas with drinks."

 

[Flopsweat]

Legal rights for robots?

Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"

Delivery fleets are creating fears of a world where people dodge heavy, fast-moving droids.

www.axios.com

ref: https://www.northwestfirearms.com/t...e-our-new-robot-overlords.226622/post-1510051

I expect the sidewalk robots to gain "sidewalk rights" in a lot of places as corporate money spreads around more. Then as the public becomes more aware of it and some accidents get attention, there will be push back.

 

[RicInOR]

Boston Dynamics, now owned by, Hyundai,
has said they don't want their tools weaponized.
Well, the French Army has other ideas:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22371590/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-military-exercises-french-army

weaponized boston dynamics spot at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics is owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020

 

[cigars]

Boston Dynamics, now owned by, Hyundai,
has said they don't want their tools weaponized.
Well, the French Army has other ideas:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22371590/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-military-exercises-french-army

weaponized boston dynamics spot at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics is owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020

Maybe it's not programmed to surrender.

 

[RicInOR]

Dill, Pickle, is coming for your job

Video and pictures at the link:

No Human Can Match This High-Speed Box-Unloading Robot Named After a Pickle

Able to move 1,600 boxes per hour using just one arm, Dill relies on humans to keep it operating efficiently

spectrum.ieee.org

 

[Certaindeaf]

Tesla: Elon Musk suggests Autopilot not to blame for fatal crash

One victim was found in the front passenger seat and the other was in the back after the accident in Texas.

www.bbc.com

 

[Flopsweat]

Dill, Pickle, is coming for your job

Video and pictures at the link:

No Human Can Match This High-Speed Box-Unloading Robot Named After a Pickle

Able to move 1,600 boxes per hour using just one arm, Dill relies on humans to keep it operating efficiently

spectrum.ieee.org

 

[RicInOR]

Elon has robot dogs as part of .... .security?

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

" It's not clear the goal of today's mission, but one of the robots had an inspection sensor mounted on its rear. " [bubblegum]

 

[Flopsweat]

Elon has robot dogs as part of .... .security?

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

" It's not clear the goal of today's mission, but one of the robots had an inspection sensor mounted on its rear. " [bubblegum]

Maybe for inspecting wreckage? I bet they can navigate the debris way better than the old wheeled kind can and would disrupt things less than a quad copter flying low.

 

[RicInOR]

AI - the "brains" of robots


https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/451033/

"This is especially true for computers. "We never close off all the avenues for hacking," he said, positing that once AI systems start looking for hacks, vulnerabilities will be found at a scale humans are simply unprepared to handle."

Hack. Meaning using something for an unintended purpose. Like downloading gambling databases thru an internet connected thermometer.

 

[cigars]

It's all fun and games until AI meets quantum computing.