Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
I couldn’t help but read this in David Mitchell’s voice.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
I take that as a compliment, thanks.
I couldn’t help but read this in David Mitchell’s voice.
Fortune is an American publication…
Fortune is an American publication…
I didn’t write a comment on Fortune’s website, I wrote a comment to a post in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/technology is a community in Lemmy.World, an instance for the entire world to use.
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Well you can’t attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won’t hit anything.
I mean, it might. Fire enough bullets wherever the dog is looking and it’ll be bound to hit something.
On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?
“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.
Very likely, yes.
Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
But:
- That won’t get you millions increase in investor funding, which also lets you increase your pay-cheque
- You need to buy them from actual dog trainers, which are people and will eventually stop selling to you once you either become too evil for them or you murder them
- They are a supply chain risk as once you eventually piss off the dog trainer by 4x-ing his electricity bills and getting your AI to tell the govt. to shoot his family, he can then bypass the dogs using his smell, because they would be familiar with him.
Replace dog trainer with dog robot maintainer.
Ha ha ha, good points.
Black Mirror, here we come.
Isnt there a black mirror episode with these exact same robot dogs being used to attack people.
Honestly just knock them over with a broom or something.
Saw them when they were at beta. They can get up again, even if they end up lying on their backs. It’s pretty impressive. They can even jump further than a human.
Bolas are back in action
These and the robot dogs should replace rodeos.
Hog tie them ?
So anyways I left the door to the microwave open.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Basically yea, you’re paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it’s probably still cheaper to just hire people.
But the c suite got to say “AI” a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
Yup 100% nothing’s real it’s just all feels
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
It’s only a matter of time till “birds aren’t real” isn’t satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords
spoiler
right into a pile of magnets
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Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?
These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.
They might be genuinely concerned about the working class revolting against them and are looking for ways to protect their assets without the peasant class involvement
Just bring a portable power pack like it’s a steak and toss it to keep them occupied. They’re starving and will leave you alone. They only charge them up to 80% to keep them extra mean.
So steal the robot dogs?
Now we just need a robot steak
I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…
Or a big ass anti static bag and a few doods with masks. As far as easy to steal $100K+ items go these seem kinda like a great target.
Now we just need a robot steak
No. KILL the robot dogs ! Much more fun.
I used to wish for a time like this when I was a child. Now, not so much.
Terminator sounds fun if it’s stays Sci fi.
Nothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.
These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.
So uhhh where are you getting all these EMPs from?
I have one as an operator skill on one of my main loadouts. You don’t?
Aren’t EMP’s hard to induce though? Like there is a big one in a nuclear explosion, but outside of that, how can you make one without megawatts of power connected to a vehicle sized device?
It’s not as hard as you’d think! 🙂 Mostly because of advances in HPM tech in the last couple years.
https://www.emsopedia.org/entries/high-power-microwave-hpm/
Even 9 years ago, you could build one from an old microwave, that could likely cause a lot of issues near a data center:
Would be funny to hear about a kid with a slingshot or something taking these out.
Maybe a laser to their lidar eyes will do the trick.
That was my thought as well.
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
At this stage, I am willing to go to Mars. There is less chance of techbro oligarchs wanting to destroy the world and killer robot dogs wanting to kill us. Matt Damon has also provided us with a basic manual on how to survive Mars.
Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship
Cemetery is the word you’re looking for. Space is a dead end, no one’s going anywhere.
There will be no Mars.
Martial law?
On Mars you need tech, wrong direction, return to monkey
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
Well, yeah. The episode about robot dogs was specifically referencing these… Boston Dynamics didn’t watch Black Mirror for inspiration, it was the other way around.
Time to learn hexadecimals and how to potato I guess.
