January 22Jan 22 2 hours ago, dave2013 said: How about this? <img> Cherry 2000. That movie about... toaster ovens. Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
January 24Jan 24 Moderator Yeah, but can the thing walk up & down a flight of stairs without it ending up on its boopkus? Frankly, I'll believe it when I actually see one on the street or in a neighbour's home, not in some hoidy toidy elite's gazillion dollar giga mansion, living in the South of Unafforda-ville. Until then I will look at this Story with a big dollop of skepticism. 🤔
January 24Jan 24 3 hours ago, ViperPilot said: Yeah, but can the thing walk up & down a flight of stairs without it ending up on its boopkus? No, and neither can I. 😄 😄 The stuff we thought would be hard: passing the BAR exam, writing a PhD thesis, writing computer code; these things turned out to be easy for AI. The things we thought would be trivial: folding a t-shirt, picking strawberries without bruising them; these have turned out to be the hardest. A million years of firmware evolution enable us to manipulate physical objects at this level. Remember the E.D.-209 robot from Robocop? Intended for "urban pacification" and it couldn't fit through a normal door or negotiate stairs. Probably work really well for outdoors crowd control. 😄 We were envisioning the Terminator T-series, and what we got was a robotic Bob Ross, fuzzy wig optional. 😄 Gorgeous robot girlfriends that look like nVidia cards without their makeup. Roombas suitable for traveling cat platforms and summoning demons in rooms with OuiJa rugs. (Hint: don't try this last one at home.) I'm in a solid wait-and-see mode. If nothing else it can be amusing. We may yet achieve the necessary breakthrough some day. Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
January 25Jan 25 57 minutes ago, LHookins said: Remember the E.D.-209 robot from Robocop? “I’d buy that for a dollar!”
January 25Jan 25 Moderator 2 hours ago, LHookins said: No, and neither can I. 😄 😄 The stuff we thought would be hard: passing the BAR exam, writing a PhD thesis, writing computer code; these things turned out to be easy for AI. The things we thought would be trivial: folding a t-shirt, picking strawberries without bruising them; these have turned out to be the hardest. A million years of firmware evolution enable us to manipulate physical objects at this level. Remember the E.D.-209 robot from Robocop? Intended for "urban pacification" and it couldn't fit through a normal door or negotiate stairs. Probably work really well for outdoors crowd control. 😄 We were envisioning the Terminator T-series, and what we got was a robotic Bob Ross, fuzzy wig optional. 😄 Gorgeous robot girlfriends that look like nVidia cards without their makeup. Roombas suitable for traveling cat platforms and summoning demons in rooms with OuiJa rugs. (Hint: don't try this last one at home.) I'm in a solid wait-and-see mode. If nothing else it can be amusing. We may yet achieve the necessary breakthrough some day. Hook I was thinking about the early Boston Dynamics 'robo dogs' who couldn't negotiate 3 or 4 steps outside without folding like a sack of Russet Potatoes...
January 25Jan 25 Judge, your honor, the robots made me do it ! I did not want to, but they forced me. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
January 26Jan 26 OK, so the one billionth robot is turned on and this happens: And it spreads its virus to the previous 999,999,999 robots. What then? 😱
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