Submitted by MyLifeisAsaJoker t3_yhy5gq in technology
"Technological fixes are not always undesirable or inadequate, but there is a danger that what is addressed is not the real problem but the problem in as far as it is amendable to technical solutions."
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Clickbait title, but very interesting article. Essentially, they're teaching quadriped robots to walk using machine learning instead of programming precise movements. They're finding that these quadruped robots are able to adapt to real world environments and learn to traverse appropriately in a fairly short amount of time with a decent success rate.
The title of this article, and the fact that it implies that robotic dogs will replace dogs, as in, you know... Living, breathing, slobbering, unconditional loving, good boys... Is ridiculous... But the research being done in the field of robotics is quite interesting.
No thanks. I have enough “machines” around me already. Don’t we all? Phones, computers, appliances, vehicles, etc.
Sure Metalhead.
Every day I read the news I grow more and more certain that TK is on to something about the dangers of the technological march onwards even while finding his anarcho-primitivist solutions to be laughable and his violence awful.
I'm far less sanguine than him about solutions. There is no hope. We're careening towards disaster and either civilization will collapse or we'll wipe this planet clean of humanity and maybe most if not all life.
It'll be a bio-engineered plague... or nukes... or nano technology... or heaven knows what.
It is coming. The last people alive, if they wonder about the Fermi Paradox, they'll guess that most technological civilizations kill themselves.
Don't have children, adopt instead.
seems like it could be fun till it drops a flaming li-on d cell
It is very cool and scary. This is the future of war.
I can’t wait for robot mounts.
It's not like they're going to attach weapons to them or anything...
The article is quite good, but it surprises me a bit that it's also nothing new.
Boston Dynamics back in 2012 was utilizing machine learning for quadrupedal robots over various terrain.
Turns out we were our own great filter the while time
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>They will only become popular once researchers get them to bend over
Are..... Are you saying you want to fuck a robo dog??
But can they lick their own assholes?
Anybody know how these things react around magnets or in water?
Well, maybe 🤔. Seems to me, robots, once used, will have made humans obsolete on the battlefield. Humans will not be going to war like now. It won't be possible to compete with the a machine designed to kill you. Then it'll be robots on robots, which is just pointless. We've finally finished war! 🥳
Hah. The land still has to be taken and thst means involving people. War is here to stay, sadly. And war without killing is rugby.
They don't want the land. They want the people.
Quibble. My point stands.
It would be nice if a sideeffect of robot armies was an end to humans killing humans in war, but that is not likely to happen. The cost is too low.
Lol! You sweet sweet naive soul.
No, you're just playing a tired old part: doomsday spouting nay-sayer. In order for there to be war, people have to be willing and able to fight one. But most people these days aren't able, due to many societal reasons, to fight a war. If they start using robots to fight humans on a battlefield, you won't be able to dress it up in any way that you would get people to be willing either.
thebusiness7 t1_iugcuvi wrote
They will only become popular once researchers get them to bend over