Autonomous killer robots "small step" away

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8/28/2014 5:25pm Edited Date/Time 8/29/2014 10:56pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11059391/Killer-robots-a-small-step-away-and-must-be-outlawed-says-top-UN-official.html

This is crazy, not so much the fact of a robot soldier, but a robot soldier that is autonomous. Robocop and Terminator scenarios are 100% real prospects, in the near future. Shocked
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8/28/2014 6:20pm
In other news, this is real footage of a Google delivery drone

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8/28/2014 6:34pm
That was awesome.
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8/28/2014 6:41pm
SF45 wrote:
That was awesome.
Just try to imagine what will be around in just 10 years

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8/28/2014 8:43pm
If it helps protect American soldiers then heck yeah..
If it helps protect the ruling elite from the people then heck yeah .

oh wait ... oh shit ...
8/28/2014 8:51pm
If it helps protect American soldiers then heck yeah..
lestat wrote:
If it helps protect the ruling elite from the people then heck yeah .

oh wait ... oh shit ...
Oh shits rite.. i wouldnt want to be nowhere near the wrong end of one of those things..Shocked
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8/28/2014 10:11pm
Wonderful. I can't wait for the government to "lose" the data that points to whomever is responsible for "accidentally" liquidating 10 political rivals with killer robots. Oh yeah, and for the hackers of the world to reprogram the bots to attack the good guys. You know that's going to happen.
8/29/2014 12:28am Edited Date/Time 8/29/2014 12:29am
All valid points. A lot of people will of course dismiss such notions as tin foil hat stuff but these things will come, in a way it's unavoidable. With the possibility of robots the size of insects that can fly round and deliver a lethal dose to a target that initially barely notices.... pretty worrying technology that'll one day be open to abuse.
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8/29/2014 8:43pm
Wow!
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SF45 wrote:
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11059391/Killer-robots-a-small-step-away-and-must-be-outlawed-says-top-UN-official.html]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11059391/Killer-robots-a-small-step-away-and-must-be-outlawed-says-top-UN-official.html[/url] This is crazy, not so much the fact of a robot soldier, but a robot soldier that is autonomous. Robocop and Terminator scenarios are 100%...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11059391/Killer-robots-a-small-step-away-and-must-be-outlawed-says-top-UN-official.html

This is crazy, not so much the fact of a robot soldier, but a robot soldier that is autonomous. Robocop and Terminator scenarios are 100% real prospects, in the near future. Shocked
Real robots are coming very, very soon, and they will be incredible. This is my biggest fear for the future. Autonomous robots that apart from the materials will be very much like a terminator only smarter and faster.

They're not far off. 10 years from now we'll start buying robots to do all the chores around the house. In 15-20 years robots will be absolutely amazing. They will be hacked,
Like any technology, they'll be used for good and for bad.

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