this is spot-on. it couldn’t be more accurate.
Those are some pretty solid pearls.
Sarah Connor?
Apparently the author has never done something inconsequential for the sake of learning.
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?
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.
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”
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.
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.
That’s the one!
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 can’t recall). The robot started malfunctioning, and the handlers had to physically restrain the robot so that it wouldn’t 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 wouldn’t 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.
