4 months“We’ve now constructed the doomsday machine from the popular novel ‘Don’t build the doomsday machine’”
Ah I was quoting from memory. You’re right the torment nexus line is better.
- Lembot_0005@lemy.lolEnglish4 months
The result is nice and cool. It is the level of modern journalism that is disturbing.
- 4 months
I worry about it. Every year I see more articles with sloppy mistakes that could be caught by any half-drunk editor phoning his job in. Sites springing up publishing 90% slop clearly so someone can keep writing. Not to mention the risks to journalism in a country where the president threatens any group whose speech he doesn’t like.
As (i think) Parenti said, now is the time of monsters. Cool robot though. That, genuinely, is crazy impressive.
- northernlights@lemmy.todayEnglish4 months
I mean in this instance, if you look at the thumbnail of the author and then follow his link, he looks not a day over 16.
- 4 months
Im middle-aged, anyone under 30 looks like a baby to me 😅 babies can be journalists as long as they’ve got ethics and a good editor
- scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Seriously. How many ways are there to make an humanoid robot out of stainless steel and aluminium?
- 4 months
What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a “straight-up Terminator”?
- Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
If you can’t handle me at my Roy Baty you don’t deserve me at my Pris Stratton
- 4 months
So far. Since Terminators are capable humanoid robots and the goal is to make capable humanoid robots each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator. And also like every other capable humanoid robot from other sci-fi as well, good bad or neutral.
The only reason to leap to “OMG it’s a Terminator!” Is to bait the clicks.
- BennyInc@feddit.orgEnglish4 months
Well to be fair, they didn’t have to give it machine gun arms and red glowing eyes. But maybe that’s just me.
- shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.
- technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator.
Not necessary. Not wanted. Just a grift.
- mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
They meant that in terms of infiltration they’re becoming more humanoid at an exponential level
- 4 months
Why does it have boobs though? Is that like extra space For batteries? Why not a bellybutton if we are Going for realism?
- hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish4 months
Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.
- tgcoldrockn@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
to be fair to the addition of bazongas, those characters are more ‘humans in cockroach costumes’ than ‘sentient cockroaches.’
- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.
- 4 months
I’d say “found the bot”, but even bots are familiar with why boobs appeal to human sensibilities.
In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.
- panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish4 months
“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”
What?
It was a Reddit comment in response to this video (Catbox alt).
- flightyhobler@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”
That’s a low bar
- technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
Pretty sure this grifter had a high bar when he said that.
- Deacon@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
I’m not saying this because she’s a billionaire, and this is really nothing against her, her looks, or her music, but I never found Taylor Swift to be, like, sexy. She’s quite beautiful and very talented but she’s just not who comes to mind when I think of slinky sexiness.
- shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. My wife is like that. She won’t win any beauty pageants, but she is as attractive as it’s possible to be for her. It’s fucking hard work and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.
Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”
But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.
Yes, Daleks are not robots, they’re squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish4 months
What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?
The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?
- technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
Pretty sure ICE can afford to but thousands/millions of these cyborgs while normal people might have Alexa speakers.
To do what?
Chores and other stuff we don’t want to/can’t do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many old encyclopedias with “future tech” chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.
- filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish4 months
Except regular people will struggle to afford food out whilst these will be cleaning rich people’s yachts.
Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%. There’s probably going to be a point when a suzuki swift (geo metro for americans) equivalent of a robot will come along.
- technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%.
That’s exactly what it means. Even a geo metro is a garbage machine that’s completely unaffordable for most of humanity and literally destroying the planet. There’s nothing to be gained by normalizing inequality and minimizing its very terrible effects.
- technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
And what will the “slaves” do? They gonna get their own robot and drive around in flying cars? jfc.
- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
The lower-class will either go chronically online or go get educated and get a non-replaceable job
- zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 months
“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”
What a weird fucking tagline on an article that insinuates a robotic dystopian future.
Although there are some weird horny undertones, so I guess it checks out. Still, weird article all around
- Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish4 months
This seems to be the really interesting part: “…the bot also contains the “first all-solid-state battery in the industry,” as opposed to the liquid electrolyte typically found in lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries are considered the “holy grail” for electric vehicle development …”
