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Comment by dluan | Hacker News Reader

Why do they always gotta smack around the robots like that :(

After a few times where the guy with the hockey stick smacked down the box and moved it away, I half expected Atlas to look at the box, then look at the stick, and grab the stick and attack the guy with it.

I was imagining something like that, although with the robot brandishing a laser gun. The robot would then saying, "die human." in a robotic sounding voice.

That will probably be in the next software version. One thing at a time.

Not gonna lie - kinda felt bad for it.

Someone on the internet said that humankind's biggest conflict will be between the two sides of those who believe in A.I. as life and those who don't.

This is kind of getting us there.

There's little doubt in my mind this technology will be employed to exterminate villages full of "terrorists" by the US military in the future. You don't even need to invoke AI for that scenario, just VR and maybe whatever Google puts into their autonomous cars.

There's no need to exterminate anything. When you have robotic infantry deployed at theater scale, a largely non-lethal peacekeeping approach could be taken with relative ease.

I'd argue robotic infantry would be a massive leap towards improving the security and humanitarian situations in some of the world's most terrible places.

Unlike long-term deployment of human soldiers, political will wouldn't really factor in to robotic deployments. That would translate to less genocide and suffering in the world.

At one point at least, people surmised that atomic weapons would lead to greater success in peace-keeping throughout the world. Not so sure it's turning out that way.

>Unlike long-term deployment of human soldiers, political will wouldn't really factor in to robotic deployments.

Aren't all military deployments an expression of political will, though?

I imagine videos like these being used in future trials to show humans torturing robots.

The Animatrix depicts a lot of robot vs human strife. Pretty good shorts :)

>I imagine videos like these being used in future trials to show humans torturing robots.

The proceedings may resemble this:

https://i.imgur.com/1m1OPlb.png

All I know is a great prank would be to program Atlas; after being pushed to jump around and start chasing that guy, yelling "Come here squishy human, I want to test your cranium for compressibility"

To show how quickly the robot can compensate to having its center of gravity shifted (balance).

But man oh man, the robots are going to nice look kindly on us later.

haha yeah. There's something slightly terrifying at 2:18 when when the robot gets pushed down, stops, then 'jumps' back up. I was half expecting it to start attacking the guy

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