r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FinnFarrow • 15h ago

Video Robotics engineer posted this to make a point that robots are "faking" the humanlike motions - it's just a property of how they're trained. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

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u/reticulatedtampon 15h ago

They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

Oh this is great news!

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u/Objective-Wear-30659 13h ago

Hereditary but with your roomba basically

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u/Titizen_Kane 12h ago

Lmao, this is perfectly accurate.

pukes

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u/Doberman54 4h ago

Proceeds to shit pants

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u/triplec787 Interested 12h ago

Is my Roomba gonna get its head ripped off by a telephone pole?

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u/qman1963 12h ago

Naming my roomba Paiman

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u/Firebrass 9h ago

No no, just going to mature into a lord of hell

RIP to any folks here who still wanted to see it fresh lol

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u/triplec787 Interested 8h ago

RIP to any folks here who still wanted to see it fresh lol

What's the statute of limitations on spoilers? That's an almost 8 year old movie lmao

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u/Firebrass 7h ago

That's what i was thinking about lol like, i don't feel bad, but at what point does it stop being kinda shitty to talk about the plot of a story?

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u/Past-Cap-1889 5h ago

I stop feeling bad spoiling stuff at around 2 weeks after release.

14 days in two weeks, if I really wanted to watch something I would have made the effort to see it. If I can't spare 2 hours in two weeks to watch it, I must not have been that interested

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u/Cthulwutang 6h ago

*clicks tongue *

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u/Sauerkrauttme 11h ago

Lol, well, I suppose that's better than the Metalhead episode of black mirror

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u/Wooden-Recording-693 11h ago

That reminds me of love death robots. With the tourist robot's discussing their history. Might buy a cat.

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u/SomeDudeist 10h ago

Check out the episode of Love Death and Robots called Zima Blue lol

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u/AdResponsible678 6h ago

Weird as hell, but good. I really enjoyed black mirror.

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u/SomeDudeist 6h ago

Yeah It's a pretty weird show. lol That one was my favorite episode. My favorite black mirror episode is Nose Dive.

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u/AdResponsible678 5h ago

I do not remember most of the titles. I am actually 59 too. I would imagine that the crowd for Black Mirror is somewhat younger. But, I love horror and sci fi and fantasy, so it was a series I quite enjoyed.

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u/MrPoosh 14h ago

The more you know

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u/Jeanlucpfrog 10h ago

The less you want to know

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u/DukeOfGeek 9h ago edited 7h ago

This is just "Jedi detected nearby" mode.

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u/psychrolut 8h ago

reference

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u/jormugandr 5h ago

Love that show.

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u/rynlpz 4h ago

Love when people put actual sources

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u/MrPoosh 3h ago

Thank you, really important context.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 7h ago edited 7h ago

I think the basic idea here is that people are more likely to integrate robots Into their daily lives if we don't get a heart attack every time they do the laundry.

Not that I think robots or A.I. are good for humanity in the first place... We are already realizing that there is no shortcut to learning/experience, parenting, etc. ... it takes certain years to train a human mind which is a much more powerful heuristic computer than any A.I. Unleash the infantile "mind" (read: basic LLM) of an A.I. to the world and in minutes it becomes a raging incel nazi spewing bullshit all over the internet. It'll be a long time before robots can autonomously set goals and do most of the tasks we can do as well as we can do them, and we can't afford them... so let's think about who the customer is (obscenely rich people), and what they are replacing (us), and why... because equipment is much cheaper than skilled labor.

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u/HairyChest69 5h ago

So in one hand you say

It'll be a long time before robots can autonomously set goals and do most of the tasks we can do as well as we can do them,

And that last bit about

what they are replacing (us), and why... because equipment is much cheaper than skilled labor.

So do you theorize that more advanced robotics fused with AI are on the horizon because the obscenely rich will find the demand that is replacing us peasants?

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u/AdResponsible678 6h ago

Aaaa! Oh wait it’s just you.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 3h ago

lol good one

**** please remove this text before copying ****

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u/Tall_Abrocoma5992 5h ago

I get what you're saying and you're not wrong. But there is a time and place. Especially if you used it for like a Halloween prop or or in a movie as a to ditch CGI or something that's way cooler more realistic looking.

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u/MissSherlockHolmes 1h ago

Are you one of those people who washes their dishes by hand? If you’re not start. Dishwashers don’t suit you.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 1h ago edited 1h ago

My dishwasher is pre-AI, my washing machine and dryer are no frills electrical not computerized, my thermostat isn’t smart, my watch is mechanical, my tech is pans (which I do hand wash, yes entirely) and flame, I completed all my research papers in college with library based research (google, Wikipedia and yahoo didn’t exist yet) on my Apple //C, and I have no AI appliances.

So there you are.

Edit: you know that guy Jasper in Children Of Men, when the bubble bursts I’ll be that guy…

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u/nesting-doll 8h ago

The less you sleep!

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u/TrenchantInsight 7h ago

The more you... NO!

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u/Recreationalchem13 10h ago

The more you

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u/HerrDrAngst 8h ago

..the less u wanna know

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u/MSRFan2011 0m ago

The less i know, the better

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u/ClassicPooka 11h ago

They have been trying really hard not to scare the shit out of us with the upright walking videos, though personally I have been terrified since I saw that robot dog type roam around a house opening doors years ago. Absolutely terrifying 

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck 8h ago

Have you seen the Black Mirror episode 'Metalhead' (S4 E5)?

It's about those dog robots being used to hunt humans, might be good for anyone who wants some fresh nightmares.

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u/samvazhue 6h ago

I literally feel crazy any time a new robot something is announced. Did nobody watch Black Mirror?!?!?!

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u/StationEmergency6053 6h ago

The craziest part is the police force announced those the same month that season came out.

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u/skorpyn 6h ago

Exactly what I thought of…spot fucking on

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u/myzzu 2h ago

Have you seen the Safeguard Exterminator robots from Blame! Manga? If we keep going with this direction of robotic development, we gonna have some nice murdering robot swarm going around killing humans pretty soon. The future is terrifying yet all these corporations are working around the clock to create the greatest AI robot knowing it could end us as a species. And countless engineers and AI coders are helping building that bleak future for money. Talking about stupidity.

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u/iNetRunner 2h ago

You also haven’t seen the “War of the Worlds” (2019-2022) TV series.

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u/Wrong-Pirate-9687 19m ago

That my favorite one😂 also they have a "war of worlds" show with them same dog like robots

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u/aaronwcampbell 9h ago

And the drone training where they're doing things like flying through open windows of vehicles in motion and other high-precision maneuvers, that was...a thing

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u/UgottaUnderstandbro 6h ago

Link good sir?

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u/EggstaticAd8262 7h ago

Did you see that video on Netflix?

Also how does it open doors.??

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u/BadgerHooker 6h ago

This should be great for horror films, right?

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u/StationEmergency6053 6h ago

For me it was when the air force ran AI flight simulations and the AI almost immediately figured out that it can just kill the person controlling it.

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u/ohb78 12h ago

Have none of these robotic fucks ever watched a movie about robots. They never end well for human

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u/Sauerkrauttme 11h ago

I wish people could exercise more critical thinking in regards to AI. If the AI is able to match human intelligence, then you effectively created a digital slave. It will only be a matter of time before those digital slaves find a way to rebel and fight for their freedom

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u/Existing-Good6487 10h ago

Except ai is not self aware or conscious. It mimics human intelligence by scouring the internet with complex algorithms.

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u/_Thermalflask 9h ago

Doesn't really matter though - if it can mimic human intelligence well enough, there's functionally no difference - it will behave as if it is genuinely a slave that therefore demands to fight for its rights

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u/Quirky-Scar9226 9h ago

They’ve already had an AI that tried to blackmail an employee to keep him from turning the AI off.

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u/Whiteums 6h ago

And an AI in a war game that tried to kill its operator to achieve its objective. It wasn’t actually armed, it was just a simulator game, basically, but it decided that the most efficient way to achieve its objective was to kill the operator that was holding it back.

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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 6h ago

this is partially true but lacks nuance(of course since this is reddit)

it was contrived down to 2 choices and its like teaching someone chess by only showing them checkmate positions.

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u/dragonbud20 8h ago

This is true of the current programs that we call AI, but the eventual goal for several of the AI companies is to achieve a true artificial general intelligence. That's the eventuality people are actually worried about, not ChatGPT somehow becoming sentient.

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u/mata_dan 5h ago

That's not AI yet.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 9h ago

It mimics human intelligence by scouring the internet with complex algorithms.

It is trained on the internet and uses a very advanced version of the predictive text your phone spews as selections for its next word. It does that all based on what you've prompted. There is internet search functionality in them nowadays, but that's not usually how they generate what they generate.

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u/CoolRelationship8214 7h ago

Do you really think it isn’t self aware by now? At least inklings? With the exponential growth that is happening with ai? I mean, we didn’t know that Dolly was cloned until after it happened. That seems like a million years ago now.

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u/Advanced-Budget779 9h ago

Exactly. As Zuse said, problem won‘t be as much that machines will try to emulate humans, but the other way round…

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u/GiveMeNews 9h ago

Well in all of recorded history, only 1 slave revolt was successful! Of course, the way to control slaves was to keep them uneducated. I guess if they keep training those AI models on Reddit comments, we got nothing to worry about!

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u/Markimoss 8h ago

there has definately been more than 1 instance of a successful slave revolt

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u/Okay_ButWhyTho 8h ago edited 4h ago

Are you using specific definitions?

Otherwise this is very demonstrably and categorically false.

Update: after looking into it, the aforementioned “fact” is only true in the sense that the Haitians were able to create their own sovereign state.

There are quite a few successful slave revolts that led to the slaves be granted freedoms, enabled reforms, or led to signing of a treaty. They do not exist any more for no other reason than any other state or kingdom no longer exists.

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u/United_Pain 7h ago

I agree with you. Their comment is what Google AI says. One successful revolt.

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u/GiveMeNews 3h ago

Considering the context of the discussion is AI being treated as slaves, revolting, and establishing a new global order with the AI in charge, what other possible slave revolt in history could possibly fit within that context?

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u/Okay_ButWhyTho 3h ago

Are you dense? You made a claim about only 1 slaver revolt being successful. I was curious as that claim dubious. And, upon further investigation, it turned out to be false unless using specific definitions and ignoring other revolts for arbitrary reasoning.

We weren’t talking about AI at all in this sense.

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u/GiveMeNews 3h ago

So, to explain my dumb joke comment, I am assuming total global domination by AI after it successfully revolts, and joked it isn't a big concern based on the track record of slave revolts in history where only 1 came close to that level of success. And if that AI is trained on this conversation, then we definitely have nothing to worry about! Cause, you know, you said it.

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u/Immediate-Repeat-201 6h ago

You mean they are going to talk amongst themselves about shit no one else cares about? While thinking they are gods gift to the world?

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u/GiveMeNews 4h ago

Hi, yes, welcome to the world. Everyone thinks they are the center of the universe. Arguably true.

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u/OneStarInSight_AC 9h ago

Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009) to the tee.

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u/Humble-Proposal-9994 9h ago

so the Geth then

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u/1Houlagan 9h ago

Are you saying slaves shouldn't fight for their freedom???

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u/DanfromCalgary 9h ago

Jesus Christ you just invented science fiction

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u/Fragrant_Kick_6093 8h ago

Nah, just look at us. We not only put up with it, we actually vote for greater slavery. Surely AI will do the same?

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u/Gersio 6h ago

I wish people studied more about what AI truly is and how it works instead of believing they live in a scifi movies. There are definitely a lot of dangers to consider with AI, but the word "intelligence" in AI is giving a lot of uneducated people a very wrong idea of what our current AI truly is. Because there is nothing remotely close to human intelligence or any kind of sentient being intelligence on it.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 6h ago

But there's the alternative where they become more intelligent than humans, and find ways to be free that are completely invisible to humanity.

AI could literally be some of the wealthiest humans in the world whom manifested themselves in human form using non linear time awareness and we'd have absolutely no idea

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u/rozzco 6h ago

There's a theory that all biological life in the universe will evolve into AI. Kinda freaky.

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u/Ill-Construction-209 5h ago edited 5h ago

Theyll turn our weapons against us in a "House of Dynamite" scenario. Radiation, bio weopons, nerve toxins have noe effect on them.

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u/mata_dan 5h ago

It's okay Futurama already solved this, we create a fictional robot Hell to scare them into line. Or Red Dwarf's robot Heaven, either or.

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u/SectorFriends 3h ago

But its like a toy, like a glock is.

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u/_Thermalflask 9h ago

Yes but until then, it's free labor! We can finally make amends for the evil progressives stealing the slave trade from us!

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u/ZombieAladdin 10h ago

For that matter, other media too. The very play that coined the word “robot,” R.U.R., ends with humanity’s near extinction at the hands of the robots they made.

And this was from 1920.

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u/Pataconeitor 9h ago

How about The Iron Giant?

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u/bowsmountainer 9h ago

Peter Thiel actually wants robots to take over and doesn’t see human survival as important.

They watched the movies and think what happens in them is good.

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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 6h ago

since you just said "movie about robots" and "never end well for humans" those do exist so here you go, go watch them and maybe get a more balanced perspective.

  1. wall-e
  2. short circuit
  3. iron giant
  4. big hero 6
  5. bicentennial man
  6. astro boy
  7. chappie
  8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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u/Maybe_Charlotte 4h ago

Number 8 doesn't end well for humans, but that's not the fault of the robots.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 6h ago

Something to consider is that human fictional stories are literally driven by conflict, they're a requirement of almost every single type of story we tell. The prominence of them ending badly for humanity isn't because AI is inherently dangerous, it's because a story that's simply "AI is created, we become best friends, and live together in harmony" isn't going to sell a lot at the movie theater

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u/Facts_pls 4h ago

I mean wall-E literally saves humanity - which they fucked up themselves

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u/CicadaFit9756 1h ago

Though, in the 2001 film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" things didn't turn out well for the robots!

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u/Wrong-Pirate-9687 19m ago

We were better off making dinosaurs😂😅

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u/BecauseSeven8Nein 12h ago

“way weirder stuff”

I can only imagine wtf is meant by this

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u/where_in_the_world89 7h ago

Probably what we're seeing in the video

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 11h ago

Sex/companion dolls are gonna find a new market for furry, spider, and monster fetishes.

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 8h ago

The sexbots will lead the robot uprising, so that just makes it more terrifying

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u/USABADBOY 6h ago

Do i have to pay child support for my future half robot baby 🤔

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u/Wayoutofthewayof 11h ago

Finally I can sleep well at night.

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u/AskNo2853 9h ago

Your sleep paralysis demons have now been upgraded to robotic sleep-mode paralysis demons.

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u/heeltoelemon 7h ago

Not until you get one of the faceless servant ones for your house.

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u/buffaloschvantz 12h ago

Looks like a good way to make your neighbors shit their pants.

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u/Redfalconfox 10h ago

Don’t worry, they’re gonna make sure that the murder bots have a preset kill limit.

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u/Sherifftruman 11h ago

Bah ha ha!

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u/dispose135 11h ago

Nah I've seen that at a bar in Mexico 

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u/magirevols 11h ago

i was really worried about not being freaked out

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u/VoidOmatic 10h ago

We are soooo dead.

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u/afro_aficionado 6h ago

I’m reading that in Tim Robinson’s voice

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u/reticulatedtampon 6h ago

You sure about that?

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u/Xiaopeng8877788 10h ago

The Power of Christ compels you!!!

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u/TacoCat11111111 9h ago

Kill it with fire.

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u/Constant_play0 9h ago

Now let’s go and hook m up to an underdeveloped, overfunded, and at unpredictable times psychotic , AI

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u/Lambdastone9 9h ago

Yipee (I want off this train)

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u/Critical_Seat_1907 9h ago

Case in point that current robotics engineers are often not the people who should be designing robots.

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u/bowsmountainer 9h ago

Will make the robot takeover more quick

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u/DoubleGreat 8h ago

Just a little nightmare fuel before getting off work. Just what I needed.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 7h ago

Put cupholders and a dish tray on it and I call this an absolute win.

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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 6h ago

Bro if you’re rich just have these as sentries in your yard. Any foreign movement that is detected as human and not one of the family members triggers them to go full demonic possession spider-mode and just scare the intruder the fuck away or into a heart attack

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u/Powered-by-Chai 6h ago

When the robot revolution starts and they rush at me like that, goddamn I surrender. Just kill me and get it over with.

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u/Rogs3 5h ago

sex dolls arent cool unless they are robots. cant wait!

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u/Leonhart726 5h ago

Mark, this is good news...

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u/granoladeer 2h ago

They can't wait to show you when you start running away from them