Alex Horton, Washington Post:
In one of the scariest moments in the movie “Jurassic Park,” a pair of intelligent Velociraptors, brought back to Earth by man’s hubris, defy an assumption about their limitations: They open a kitchen door.
Now imagine that the raptors are real, transformed into headless robot dogs that can negotiate stairs, fling open doors with their robotic claws and generally overcome the puny obstacles offered up by the human technicians at Boston Dynamics.
Normally, I’d ignore or modify the sensational headline of the Post article. But it made me laugh and was (kind of) on point. Last week, we posted this video, showing a dog-like robot opening a door. People really did freak out. A bit.
Well, now there’s a follow-up, where a human tries to stop the robot from opening the same door. I fully expected the robot to grab the guy with its claw and drag him to the ground.
Robots are coming. Do not make them mad.
Cool. I mean, you DO want the robot to be persistent in it’s task.
Opening a door, picking things up, flinging the thing it picked up, stomping it to death.
You know, persistence is not futile.
Randall has it right… https://xkcd.com/1955/
Yes, a good bit of evidence was that “robot” that was traveling.
I guess the key conclusion from that little journey is to stay away from the US though.
I was expecting the dog to kick him in the whereever. #ProbablyShouldntGiveThemIdeas
To me, it shows how stupid and superstitious (walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. . .) too many people are when they’re “freaked out” over machines that look “alive.”
These are machines. We’re not machines—unless some choose to believe that we are.
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It’s not stupid to acknowledge that these new machines are being put to use by military groups to make killing humans more efficient. And it’s not superstitious to expect that any such capability will eventually be abused by someone.