MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
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Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#2Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/29/oh-no-mits-cheetah-robot-..., which points to this.
Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#3Aside from being a great development; I am really scared that robotics is improving this much. It feels like we are creating our own potential enemy.
Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#4Aside from being a great development; I am really scared that robotics is improving this much. It feels like we are creating our own potential enemy.
Hopefully the real world version will end up a bit more benign than the movies.
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#5Aside from being a great development; I am really scared that robotics is improving this much. It feels like we are creating our own potential enemy.
Ugh, I really dislike this sentiment. Even assuming the most extreme possibility -- that we create a powerful, sentient machine -- this is no different than what every species on this planet has been doing for a few billion years now.
Creating life is what we earthlings do. And yeah, maybe that life form you create goes on to do horrible things. But maybe it goes on to do really good things. You don't know until you try.
Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#6Aside from being a great development; I am really scared that robotics is improving this much. It feels like we are creating our own potential enemy.
Ugh, I really dislike this sentiment. Even assuming the most extreme possibility -- that we create a powerful, sentient machine -- this is no different than what every species on this planet has been doing for a few billion years now. Creating life is what we earthlings do. And yeah, maybe that life form you create goes on to do horrible things. But maybe it goes on to do really good things. You don't know until you…
> this is no different
Creating something with our knowledge and the ability to learn ever faster than us is very different.
Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#7Well, it is very impressive, but still a very long way from what a real animal can do. What if the obstacle is at the edge of a canyon? It will suicide :D . Those tests are very restricted, but even after they will think the robot is ready, there will be cases they have missed in which it will fail.
Re: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
#8Aside from being a great development; I am really scared that robotics is improving this much. It feels like we are creating our own potential enemy.
Ugh, I really dislike this sentiment. Even assuming the most extreme possibility -- that we create a powerful, sentient machine -- this is no different than what every species on this planet has been doing for a few billion years now. Creating life is what we earthlings do. And yeah, maybe that life form you create goes on to do horrible things. But maybe it goes on to do really good things. You don't know until you…
Personally, I'm not concerned with that. I'd be more concerned about powerful robots controlled by governments/corporations/anyonewhohasaninterestincontrollingyourbehaviour.
Look at what's happening in Yemen. The population there lives under the fear of drone strikes by the US (that includes the civilian population). If governments are prepared to do that with drones, what reason is there to suspect they'll turn down using something that's ground-based to impose control?
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#9To be fair, this looks more like a mountain goat jump. Impressive non the less !
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#10I for one welcome our robotic overlord