Imma die to a robot. If it ain't this, it will be some medical algorithm saying I'm not worth the extremely doable treatment ill eventually need when I get dementia or something similar they'll find the cure for but only for the privileged

Edited for the link - https://abc7ny.com/nypd-robot-dog-digidog-k9-artificial-intelligence/8669769

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Absolutely, as soon as my friend and I saw this a looong time ago, we knew for sure it would eventually lead to a natural progression of this. It's always marketed as for safety or humanitarian BS. Similar to how musk is gonna have rockets deploying weapons around the world soon enough, but he is changing the universe cause, uh, mars.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        musk is gonna have rockets deploying weapons around the world

        Just popped in to say no he absolutely will not because that concept is the stupidest idea in history and even the US military is not so far gone yet to actually use it. Imagine what would happen if you launch a bunch of missiles that look exactly like ICBMs into a conflict zone across the world. Retaliatory strikes from Russia and China would be in the air well before they reached their destination and people realized they were just delivering crayon rations to Marines.

        • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Counter point, the president can just tweet that it's actually totally chill and not an ICBM and just small arms and once its on the internet it's true

        • NPa [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          hahhaah I hadn't even thought of that. Musk really has a gift for thinking up the stupidest, most unworkable ideas

    • cilantrofellow [any]
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      4 years ago

      Everyone was saying Boston dynamics was cool though! they didn’t want this used to make warfare robots or some shit. Idiots.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They kept insisting it was for search and rescue after natural disasters. The big dog one was sent out to the military though. Which is awesome because that thing was loud as fuck.