Looks like Atlas may have had an accident during filming, there's a hydraulic fluid stain on the floor:
https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=163
And it must also be said that these are preprogrammed maneuvers on a closed course...
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#22First reaction: It's official. I am very afraid. Second reaction: When's the OK Go video released? Third reaction: They paid Boston Dynamics engineers to do this ?
I kind of wish there was a reason to be afraid, but I don’t think AI is anywhere near that.
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#23It's so freaky looking at this my brain feels like it's CG, spot in particular. Even though being familiar with Boston Dynamics I know its not. Not sure if its just so unreal, or maybe there's something unnatural in the movement or if some scenes were sped up.
Spot was the least surprising to me, having seen it dance in the past, except the tip toeing bit felt incredibly.. ballet-ish.
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#24What happened to units HDI-1, and HDI-2?
Have they escaped and gone rogue, or are they just sat on the naughty step?
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#25If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…
I would go further than that and say that it's obviously CGI, though I don't know if that actually means it is CGI - it could be, as you mentioned, some sort of post-processing. Or maybe it's greenscreened and composited together? More than the smoothness, there just seems to be something off about the weight and momentum that you tend to see in high-end, big-budget-movie CGI, but it's hard to put a definite finger o…
I'm inclined to agree with this after bumping the video up to max quality. I do believe that this is real, and you can see from 0:51-1:05 that there's some reflections going on that would be a lot trickier to fake. But this footage has a similar quality to what I see in a lot of heavily processed drone footage, where it just doesn't look like the same way I see the world.
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#26Modeled after every drunk uncle at a Polish wedding.
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#27Looks like Atlas may have had an accident during filming, there's a hydraulic fluid stain on the floor: https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=163 And it must also be said that these are preprogrammed maneuvers on a closed course...
> there's a hydraulic fluid stain on the floor:
The robot equivalent of performance anxiety.
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#28It's all fun and games until they install the guns on these things.
You can already see how tech armies absolutely own the battlefield thanks to drones even without AI. Lagging behind has devastating consequences.
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#29First reaction: It's official. I am very afraid. Second reaction: When's the OK Go video released? Third reaction: They paid Boston Dynamics engineers to do this ?
I kind of wish there was a reason to be afraid, but I don’t think AI is anywhere near that.
We don't need to have full AI to have "death bots".
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I kind of wish there was a reason to be afraid, but I don’t think AI is anywhere near that.
We don't need to have full AI to have "death bots".
Do you have a source for that? I’m genuinely interested what kind of AI can act 100% autonomously on the battlefield.