guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
Fortune is an American publication…
I didn’t write a comment on Fortune’s website, I wrote a comment to a post in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/technology is a community in Lemmy.World, an instance for the entire world to use.
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.
If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don’t have the technology.
Even if you needed something mobile, it’s not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.
It’s about them not rebelling their evil overlords (except if they get hacked).
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Any good articles on how to permanently seal those bunkers?
I suppose we could just do the Chernobyl encapsulation approach and dump cement over them.
Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.
Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.
Send it back on the post to hunt the baby tech bros.
Just like the T-800 and K2-SO. Reprogram all the droids.
Faraday nets are fucking genius.
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
Hear me out : Cameras.
Hear me out.
Magnets.
Do magnets disable cameras ?
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
more than just that one, buddy.
I may be ignorant, but from my experience Boston Dynamics is cool and if they were able to sell these things to the AI guys good for them!
I know these robots are used to do maintenance vhecks on big factories, where a dude can tell it to walk to a valve to look at it through a camera, and i think thats fine.
Instead of having 50 cameras you have one walking one.
I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.
Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.
Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months’ time.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
At this stage, I am willing to go to Mars. There is less chance of techbro oligarchs wanting to destroy the world and killer robot dogs wanting to kill us. Matt Damon has also provided us with a basic manual on how to survive Mars.
Wrong stance. Mars will be a complete dictatorship
There will be no Mars.
Cemetery is the word you’re looking for. Space is a dead end, no one’s going anywhere.
SMASH THE CLANKERS ! Any solid metal rod will do ! Get out there and smash those sorry imitations of “dogs” to pieces !
What about using lasers to blimd their cameras?
Any successful hunting technique is by definition a good technique. All that matters is getting the highest possible kill count !
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
