I mean, the planet’s dying, but ok. At least we’ve got robots that “excced human performance” in making their overlords profits. Imagine if these scientists were putting their efforts to real use.
Lol, not really. I’m rolling my eyes. It’s just more doom and gloom reaction to a legitimately useful piece of technology, which could be just as much benefit to humanity as a detriment.
Plus the idea that the people who worked on this might have even been capable of working on something more “useful” to humanity is complete and utter moon shot speculation, along with the idea that this is mutually exclusive to research and development of “useful” things.
I’ll reserve my cynicism for when these actually start trending towards replacing human workforce, like how LLMs are being misused. Most of Boston Dynamics’s stuff doesn’t have massive effects on the world, it’s more specialized use cases.
I was already thinking this reminded me of The Talos Principle but your “the planet is dying” comment makes it even more close of a match. Those games are awesome.
I mean, the planet’s dying, but ok. At least we’ve got robots that “excced human performance” in making their overlords profits. Imagine if these scientists were putting their efforts to real use.
Lemmings reading you right now:
Lol, not really. I’m rolling my eyes. It’s just more doom and gloom reaction to a legitimately useful piece of technology, which could be just as much benefit to humanity as a detriment.
Plus the idea that the people who worked on this might have even been capable of working on something more “useful” to humanity is complete and utter moon shot speculation, along with the idea that this is mutually exclusive to research and development of “useful” things.
I’ll reserve my cynicism for when these actually start trending towards replacing human workforce, like how LLMs are being misused. Most of Boston Dynamics’s stuff doesn’t have massive effects on the world, it’s more specialized use cases.
It’s gonna kill us
I was already thinking this reminded me of The Talos Principle but your “the planet is dying” comment makes it even more close of a match. Those games are awesome.
The planet is fine, humanity is dying. But that’s ok.
Is it, though?
Yes. The planet doesn’t give a single fuck. It went through many extinction level events and it’s still here.
At least they aren’t only working on preventing hair loss and prolonging erections
Is there a difference?
Paraphrasing a joke from a movie called “Idiocracy”
Cancer rope-a-doping us with robots and AI.