lumpenprol Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/google-acquires-boston-dynamics-a-leading-robotics-company/ Looks like we're one step closer to Black Mesa/Aperture Science becoming a reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 At least Googz didn't buy Kraftwerk[youtubehd]VXa9tXcMhXQ[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Google 2003: "Don't be evil." Google 2009: "It's hard to define what evil is, specifically." Google 2013: "We build military robots." Stolen from Twitter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hugh Mughnus Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I give google 5 years before they're using their technology/research background and immense equity/capital to penetrate the defense market. This is only the first step! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 haven't seen this SCHAFT thing before, looks menacing: I dare you watch him climb a ladder in realtime: lel via http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/6882/Googles-SCHAFT-robot-wins-DARPA-Robotics-Challenge-Trials-2013.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 i'm just disappointed it wasn't amazon. as cool as the drone delivery idea is, what i really want is for my prime orders to be delivered by a terrifying, headless, quadrupedal robot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 just been thinking that these may be good for replacing service personell in dada centers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Hah well it's 2014. One article I read about the acquisitions made the point that these are companies at the forefront of sensor technology. It only makes sense for Google to get more involved in that scene. We could also see this tech turn into things like exo skeletons for assisting people with physical disabilites, like the HAL 5 from Cyberdyne Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 we could mebbe also see it being used to kill us all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Npoess Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I for one welcome our new robot overlords (had to be done) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Google 2003: "Don't be evil." Google 2009: "It's hard to define what evil is, specifically." Google 2013: "We build military robots." Stolen from Twitter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I think the HL2:E2 Hunters are considered Synths, i.e. bio-mech hybrids, like the Combine Gunships and Striders. I for one welcome our new robot overlords (had to be done) Dammit, Ken Jennings. If dey reach full autonomy and establish their own mechanized hive enclave and wreak havoc on humankind, it's up to him to blow this muthafucka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 i'm not worried, my bulletproof sexbot will protect me I think the HL2:E2 Hunters are considered Synths, i.e. bio-mech hybrids, like the Combine Gunships and Striders. the life of the party, this one I'm sure that's true, but their behavior and structure is remarkably similar to the BD designs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Npoess Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/darpa-tried-to-build-skynet-in-the-1980s-1451000652 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Google isn't evil. Google now has Kurzweil as lead tech engineer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Read an interesting interview with Douglas Hofstadter recently on why he thinks current developments in AI aren't nearly as AI as AI is supposed to be - according to Hofstadter, that is. To a point I agree with him, but would it matter if a droid had his target aimed on you and autonomously decides to pull over the trigger? “It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence.” Douglas Hofstadter is in a grocery store in Bloomington, Indiana, picking out salad ingredients. “If somebody meant by artificial intelligence the attempt to understand the mind, or to create something human-like, they might say—maybe they wouldn’t go this far—but they might say this is some of the only good work that’s ever been done.” Hofstadter says this with an easy deliberateness, and he says it that way because for him, it is an uncontroversial conviction that the most-exciting projects in modern artificial intelligence, the stuff the public maybe sees as stepping stones on the way to science fiction—like Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, or Siri, Apple’s iPhone assistant—in fact have very little to do with intelligence. For the past 30 years, most of them spent in an old house just northwest of the Indiana University campus, he and his graduate students have been picking up the slack: trying to figure out how our thinking works, by writing computer programs that think. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Google isn't evil. Google now has Kurzweil as lead tech engineer. That was sarcasm, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Were Google always such shady fucks? Or did they legitimately start off as two college kids with a search engine, who were seduced down the path of becoming a media juggernaut with ties to political organizations & weapons manufacturers? Jokes aside, they really do feel like the company most likely to become some sort of dystopian sci-fi megacorp. They're always about two hostile takeovers & a free wifi package away from owning the internet, & the massive blunders with G+ & Youtube don't seem to be slowing them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 If I had a multi-billion company, I would spend a lot of that money to fund research in all kinds of sci-fi sounding tech. It's only a matter of time until Google buys a small country and establishes a city which is inhabited by scientists doing all kinds of cutting-edge research in fields from genetics, robotics, AI, nanotechnology and all kinds of other stuff. That's what I would do if I had a ridiculous amount of money and no sight of ever it stopping to come in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 and the scientists will be gay and hold hands and watch the artificial rainbows they're creating, then ride home on their robotic turtles while tripping on LSD, and then stroke their unicorns before falling asleep in the cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 That sounds amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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