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Boston Dynamics Update

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https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas

Some interesting newish videos.

This one is almost scary... Definitely determined to get through that door...


No, I think it is scary...

Yes, I'm scared.
 
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In one of the Atlas demos the handler keeps pushing a box out of the robot's reach with a hockey stick. The robot dutifully follows the box until finally acquiring it. Atlas V2.0 will be able to grab the hockey stick and beat the handler over the head for being such a jerk.
 

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We're playing with fire. We tend to think that we'll know when they become self-aware. Would we?
Only if we stop taking the blue pills
 

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at 30 secs mark that piece falls off... it kicks it out of the way like in kung-fu movies :oops:

i guess that guy noticed it too and backed off immediately :D

(not really, looks like it just happens to kick it... i think)
 

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Wow!
 
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Brings out the best in Human nature, I think.
 
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Toward the end I was sniffing a fake... but wasn't sure...

That may be the scarier part.
 

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https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas

Some interesting newish videos.

This one is almost scary... Definitely determined to get through that door...


No, I think it is scary...

Yes, I'm scared.

All scary. They were part of Google at some point but I think Google ended up a little worried about the public perception (Google are big in AI of course) and they're not part of Google anymore...

People have been talking about potential military use for years, so when they were part of Google there was chatter about potential Terminator doomsday scenarios.

I think Boston Dynamics are now part of SoftBank.
 
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A new video...


 

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I would prefer a Nexus-6 Pris. But if these things are going to turn on us, and you know they eventually will, I guess it doesn't matter.
 
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Robo Update...

We will need to be afraid, soon...

 

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Robo Update...

We will need to be afraid, soon...

Wouldn't worry yet, most of the robots they show still look too strange:

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