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[Dekafox]

Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.

www.wired.com

No paywall: https://archive.is/7dFex

 

[wonko the sane?]

Strapping dudes into tin suits does not a robot army make.

 

[Cybersnark]

I mean, given that his AI repeatedly ends up turning against him, I can see why he might be having second thoughts about his so-called army.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Sure, let that jackass build a robot army. Either it will fall apart and explode as soon as it deploys, or it'll work too well and we're headed for Terminators. Or both. Exploding Terminators.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

Strapping dudes into tin suits does not a robot army make.

"WE DO NOT CONCUR."

Hm, what if Elno was John Lumic instead of Tony Stark all along?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Sure, let that jackass build a robot army. Either it will fall apart and explode as soon as it deploys, or it'll work too well and we're headed for Terminators. Or both. Exploding Terminators.

Yeah, see when the terminators were first created in the 80 (as a concept.) they were a folly of run away technology. They were... not impossible, but such a ridiculous long shot that it might as well be impossible.

But it's 40 years later, and the kids that grew up on the 80's super science fiction are now weapon developers, and military technology has already swung towards drones. We HAVE terminators, but the designers found the human form to be FAR to inefficient and unwieldy for serious and significant killing.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

"Inefficient and unwieldy" is Musk's MO, so he might try anyway.

That or w're heading for Horizon: Zero Dawn instead. (Which even had a text log of someone complaining that decades of sci fi spelled out exactly why an unstoppable war machine swarm is a terrible idea, but some obscenely rich idiot just HAD to go and do it anyway.)

 

[CoffeeHorse]

The human form is the most unstoppable all-terrain design ever known to exist. It's clumsy, but it does truly everything clumsily.

Tanks are still defeated by mud. Flying drones are promising but there's a difficult tradeoff in how small and maneuverable you want it to be and how much weaponry you want it to carry. Humans can maneuver through a building and also carry recklessly too much. A humanoid robot can do that and not bill you about its bad knees afterwards.

 

[Cybersnark]

Humanoid robots also have the benefit of being able to use equipment and vehicles made for humans, which is a lot easier than trying to literally reinvent the wheel.

 

[wonko the sane?]

The human form is the most unstoppable all-terrain design ever known to exist. It's clumsy, but it does truly everything clumsily.

Tanks are still defeated by mud. Flying drones are promising but there's a difficult tradeoff in how small and maneuverable you want it to be and how much weaponry you want it to carry. Humans can maneuver through a building and also carry recklessly too much. A humanoid robot can do that and not bill you about its bad knees afterwards.

Humanoid robots also have the benefit of being able to use equipment and vehicles made for humans, which is a lot easier than trying to literally reinvent the wheel.

Alright, but before you can kill me: please point at all the boxes with traffic lights.

 

[Dekafox]

 

[Ironbite4]

WHY ARE THEY IN TENTS AND NOT AT HOME!?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Man, why couldn't we get the cool dystopian stuff along with all the horrifying crap? Sure, I'd still hate the world, but at least I'd have a cybernetic arm or something.

 

[Cybersnark]