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didn't we talk about robot war dogs last week? NYC is already at it (Original Post)
irisblue
Apr 2021
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Missed it last week, but don't we already have bomb-sniffing and surveillance bots?
TreasonousBastard
Apr 2021
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IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,816 posts)1. Won't be long now...
EYESORE 9001
(25,947 posts)2. I am not afraid
We havent even gotten started with ways to mess these mechanical monstrosities UP!
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)5. When its get close enough that the R & D money starts flowing....
Anyone not already rich will be up shit creek.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)3. At least it's not 'autonomous'....
...yet.
There's that.
Celerity
(43,416 posts)12. Nov 13, 2017
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)13. Interesting fictional depiction...
...which attempts to examine the realm of possibilities for our future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots
But, as I said...'yet'.
The chilling phrase for me, in the video above... 'trust me, these were all bad guys.'
My son, when he was four to six, had a simple binary world view of good-guys and bad-guys.
He learned the following lesson as he aged: The World is Complex and Not Binary.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. Missed it last week, but don't we already have bomb-sniffing and surveillance bots?
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)6. Cue the luddites
irisblue
(32,982 posts)7. how so?
Every time someone posts something about robots its always the same response irrational fear.
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USALiberal
(10,877 posts)11. Many people here don't understand how technology advances! Nt
Polybius
(15,437 posts)10. I kinda want one