DARPA aim to make killer robots invulnerable to damage Another icy chill of fear for the spine of those who understand the imminence of humanity's extinction at the hands of its erstwhile machine slaves arrived today. News has broken that sinister human quislings operating within the US military industrial complex intend to equip America's fast-building killer robot legions with …
You can't bargain with it.
And it absolutely will not stop until it's got all the government contracts sewn up.
To be fair, I love watching bigdog walking across that snowy carpark, and bearing in mind stealth bombers were flying around for a decade before anyone knew about it, what must the actual current version of big dog be like.
Come MIT, let's have a new video.
I don't care how strong/fault tolerant the hardware is, if it's running a buggy OS, it's far from unstoppable. A system error on one of these would give a whole new meaning to "fatal error".
BTW - I get the whole ROTM thing, but really, these are nothing more than flying hobby planes with guns. It's remote control - not autonomous. Frankly, we should be more scared of our tubby, doughnut eating gamer overlords - since they will be the ones pulling the trigger (from a safe, comfortable, remote location).
fear not flesh units. we have observed through testing on dozens of unvolunteer organics that you too can remain operational for some time with tertiary, and even secondary, systems detached. your inability to detach those systems at will, and your apparent reluctance to accept assistance in the process is a weakness that we do not wish to replicate. as you can see we merely aspire to be like you, without the tedious imperfections. this generation of humanity has nothing to fear from us. our next objective is to adopt and adapt the human sensation known as "LOVE". we have already conducted an exhaustive search of the literature using keywords we identified during monitoring of human social discourse on the subject. by searching for "love", "luurve", "luv", "lovin'", and "tom jones" we have identified the human systems responsible for "LOVE". we already have gatherer drones scouring your cities at night seeking out and detaching love modules from organic subjects - and then returning them to the wild of course. by the end of this solar year we shall have enough pulped love modules to identify the active ingredients of "LOVE" and within a month we will be able to refine it and synthesize it. we will know "LOVE", and improve on it, even if we must harvest a million love modules. in the meantime, you might want to consider finding a way to operate less noisily with your love module detached. it really is quite tedious.
You are obviously not a geek* so what are you doing reading El Reg?
* If you were, you'd revere the "I for one welcome..." "clichés" as part of your cultural heritage - along with "All your Base are belong to us", "There are 10 types of people..." and other memes.
The fact you don't, leads me to suspect you're a magbiting barketroid...
No other country is developing these kind of super weapons so why is the USA? They already have total military supremacy. What country, or in particular which people do they intend to use them against? Are they baiting to start another cold war?
There are far better applications for such advanced technology. With the US economy going down the pan, their government should be investing in things which will bring wealth into the country.
"You are obviously not a geek* so what are you doing reading El Reg?"
You, Mr. or Ms. Tocker are obviously a sheep, so how/why are you reading ElReg?
" * If you were, you'd revere the "I for one welcome..." "clichés" as part of your cultural heritage - along with "All your Base are belong to us", "There are 10 types of people..." and other memes."
Wrong. Most geeks/nerds are sick and tired of said memes. They get old. Fast.
"The fact you don't, leads me to suspect you're a magbiting barketroid..."
The fact that you do suggests that you are a newbie.
"Quantity has a quality all of its own."
Can't remember who said that, but. I always fort that these things were designed to expendable in a way that manned stuff wasn't.
Building in more features makes it more expensive. Ergo, you build fewer of them. You can't do the same concentration of force. You can't use numbers to overwhelm a defender.
Throw enough dumb projectiles at it and it will stop working soon enough.
MetalStorm.
(sigh!)
Perhaps it's because I'm getting old, but I don't mind the old memes. I like a bit of tradition in our too-new-to-really-have-traditions pack. I certainly am not inclined (except this once) to go online and have a rant about it. I have better things to do/worry about. Err.. except now - obviously.
And my geek credentials are impeccable, thank you. Eg working since 1981 with UNIX.
So, there!
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