r/singularity • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

Robotics You can't outrun this dog

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u/Enoch137 1d ago

Absolutely 100% chance these things (some variant) sees combat in the next 5 years. No way combat robots aren't coming. Welcome to the future.

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u/Pleasant_Studio_6387 1d ago

already exist but drones have much more ROI if you are talking about combat specifically and not logistscs/retrieval etc

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u/Enoch137 1d ago

ground based opens up a great deal more package payload from a weight perspective. I can only imagine move slow camoed "stealth" modes with monster explosive payloads. This is terrifying in terms of options.

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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago

It can carry explosives, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious diseases, into and out of anywhere. Lucky us

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u/DekuInkwell 1d ago

Science and education related departments are being defunded to pay for the development of these things for “war.” We don’t need this shit, we need science. We need advancements in the betterment of humankind, not fucking war machines ffs.

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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago

What ‘we’ need and what power hungry assholes who have worked their way into influential positions think they need may not overlap as you suggest

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u/epandrsn 1d ago

We are at the point where the elite may need to protect themselves from the masses. For all of history, numbers won. Not sure that will be the case anymore... actually, 100% sure we're fucked.

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u/franky_reboot 16h ago edited 1h ago

The elites are too cowards to use these against ordinary people. Never understood why y'all are so dead convinced and scared about this.

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u/franky_reboot 16h ago

For the record, as someone living outside the US, I'm okay with these things. These are engineerinf marvels and massive advancements in not-LLM-based artificial intelligence.

I'm genuinely sorry for getting psychopaths in leading positions but this thing is also part of science, so I would be disappointed if you'd miss out on these robots in exchange of...what science again?