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An electric new era for Atlas
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#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Does the Universe care? Why not concentrate on those that have the capacity to care?
I mean you are an emergent phenomenon of the universe and you care, so there is a case to be made the universe cares.
Yeah, let's concentrate on those facets that do care right now, and their children.
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#403That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
It looks like CGI to me, the way to camera moves together with the depth of field and that things appear too shiny. They don't state anything about it so I don't know what to believe.
You should watch Corridor Digital’s video about this: https://youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#404Seems like they just posted a video about the new Atlas https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M
... a rendered video, i.e. it doesn't exist.
You should watch this Corridor Digital video explaining why the Boston Dynamics videos aren’t CG: https://youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y
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#405This moves like a real robot. In contrast, the Figure 01 video was clearly a fake one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw).
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#406This moves like a real robot. In contrast, the Figure 01 video was clearly a fake one ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw ).
Why do you think that was fake?
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never mind right to repair, of all the advancements, maintaining the new machines has always been the obvious new job that gets created. We created the loom and fired everybody? Well now there's a loom engineer job waiting for (some) of you. What happens to society when, instead of having a robot-fixing job, the robots can fix themselves? AGI is a distraction; much like the Turing test turned out to be the wrong test…
Seeing "no more jobs" in the "worry" list is surprising. State pensions exist, and the only reason the pension ages are rising is not enough workers to pay for them; having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI". * which definitely requires human level general AI at fairly low electrical power demand
> having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI"
Why would the super villains operating these armies of human-capable robots bother paying into an upside down pension system?
At the very least they can defend themselves from the torch wield masses with even more robots.
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seeing "no more jobs" in the "worry" list is surprising. State pensions exist, and the only reason the pension ages are rising is not enough workers to pay for them; having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI". * which definitely requires human level general AI at fairly low electrical power demand
> having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI" Why would the super villains operating these armies of human-capable robots bother paying into an upside down pension system? At the very least they can defend themselves from the torch wield masses with even more robots.
The standard answer is taxes, backed the existing monopoly on use of force by government.
If we've gone so far that governments cannot stand up against private robot armies then that's not an option anymore, but the point is not to get there.
Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics. FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.
They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%
Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai.
> Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.Re: An electric new era for Atlas
#410That first video of the bot standing from the floor and turning towards the camera one joint at a time does something strange to the uncanny valley horror movie part of my brain.
At first look, it reminded me of the "Supervisor" robots from "Budget Cuts": https://budget-cuts.fandom.com/wiki/Supervisor
It reminded me of Pathfinder from Apex Legends
https://apexlegends.fandom.com/wiki/Pathfinder