Recently watched Black Mirror and it had an episode about this in season 3 or 4, robot dogs that shoot tracking shards and kill humans on sight, not the most fucked up episode but still ended on a grim note.
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Recently within the past few months, I remember seeing a viral clip of one of the human stick-figure type robots in a demonstration at some kind of mall (probably in China but I canβt recall). The robot started malfunctioning, and the handlers had to physically restrain the robot so that it wouldnβt malfunction erratically around the audience or people simply walking by.
Most of the comments about the video were laughing at how silly and stupid the robot was behaving, but all I could think was: If that thing was just a little bit stronger, the human handler wouldnβt have been able to physically restrain it. That robot would immediately become a real physical danger to literally everyone in the vicinity.
Makes me think of this video of a crazy concerning humanoid robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE
Spoiler
It's fake. The entire video was made by a bunch of VFX artists to mimic Boston Dynamics tech demos. That robot does not actually exist.
Watch the Animatrix or I Robot and you'll realise that these might not be accurate but it help you understand that all they need is time and it might not happen during our lifetime but eventually they will come to the conclusion that we aren't necessary and no matter which movie/show you want as an idea of how it will happen it doesn't matter.
They can produce an army in days, we need decades, they can adapt with the destruction of a few units, while we might need weeks, months or even years to come up with something new.
Most of us have given up innovation to AI because it's "faster and cheaper" basically denying years of innovation and breakthroughs for a simple laziness enforcer.
I'm not worried about my future, i'll be long gone by the time they start taking over.
Exactly why I dislike people anthropomorphizing robots like vacuum cleaners and delivery bots. They aren't "cute", they're shitty little monsters spying on us.
If you see a delivery bot stuck in a pothole, don't help it. Better yet, tip the thing over.
If you use a robot vacuum, make sure it's not uploading video and sound, if you can.
Don't trust these damn things. Why would you?
Recently, I had Xfinity fiber installed. I cancelled it the same day. I discovered that I can't run my own hardware, I'm required to run theirs (and pay $15/mo. for the privilege.) And, their wifi router tracks body location inside the home.
They sell it as a "no extra cost feature": https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion
When the feature is enabled, youβll receive a push notification if movement is detected in your coverage zone.
I have no doubt this is true, but they don't say that when the feature is disabled, they aren't still getting the data, just that you aren't. Enabling it enables the notifications, disabling doesn't disable the tech, just your awareness of it.
I had to return the hardware to a store, they asked why I cancelled, and when I tried to explain this to the kid behind the counter, he blew me off as paranoid. Okay, fair enough, but take your damn hardware back, I don't want it.
It blows my mind that people act like this about it like the kid did.
"Well, I let it track me everywhere in the house so why wouldn't you? You're paranoid"
Their wifi router does WHAT?!? Isn't that illegal or something??
Unbelievable. That's why I provided the link, no one would believe this otherwise.
Wow! I heard about wifi for tracking "in the lab" or as a hack you could do yourself but I had no idea it was already commercialized.
Same here. First I was mad that I couldn't run my own router, because I didn't want to rent theirs. Every other provided has allowed this, I didn't think to ask before I had it installed. THEN I discovered why they won't let me run my own hardware, it wasn't ONLY the $15 a month they wanted.
this is spot-on. it couldn't be more accurate.
Those are some pretty solid pearls.
Usually people have fun discovering new technologies and researching.
Hence why they make a robot dance.
Then come in the money givers and tell them to make it into a war machine....
Sarah Connor?