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A self driving car is a robot you can sit in.
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Whew, robo-apocolypse averted. Thank you Boston Dynamic!
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Kanye Musk? Not so much.
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Read the f outta this as a kid “squeeeee!”
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If someone weaponizes our robots, we’ll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics
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That may be one DRM measure some of us can get behind: the prevention of customizations that add weapons and other harmful stuff to robots. We also can’t help but think of being punched in the face by a Boston Dynamics bot, which would require little or no alterations to the hardware and be rather, er, life changing for the victim. How one would mitigate that seems non-trivial.
Don’t forget, no matter how fancy they dance and move, Boston Dynamics’ robots are ultimately controlled by remote operators. The machines have onboard software and hardware to make the calculations required to walk, run, jump, crawl, and so on in real time in uneven environments and conditions, and can be trained to perform more complex moves, but they aren’t advanced AI systems. They go where they are told, and they hit who they’re told to hit.
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I can see robots being crude facsimiles of humans, complete with our quirky logic that can circumvent dogmatic law, like getting someone else to dial the phone for you on the holy day when work is expressly forbidden, where the circumvention could involve a kludge with another bot pulling the trigger while riding a “General Purpose Robot” ala TNMT’s Krang.
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Is it wrong that I think that is so cool?
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last space on the bingo card is hunting in packs
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PREVIOUSLY ON BOING BOING
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Once Pandora opens the box, there’s no putting it back in. If only Epimetheus could have forseen that…
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