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    The continued aggressive sheer will of the US government to take every cautionary tale ever written and make it reality.

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    I know it’s the correct way to word it, but this sounds like rifles on robotic arms mounted on real dogs

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      some style guides are really dumb and consider “a b-c d” to be “(a b)-(c d)”, as if a hyphen is less tightly binding than a space

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      Before they made the knife missile, I expected someone to mount the robotic sniper array on a Predator.

      But robot murder dogs are just another drone if they’re controlled by an operatons team.

      We cross the crazy sci-fi line when they’re able to autonomously select and attack targets based on an algo.

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      Israel is already assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists with autonomous/remote-controlled gun platforms. The last one I’ve heard of apparently was able to use facial recognition and shoot the scientist in his car sparing the other passengers.

      Next to that, putting the platform on a Spot seems almost trivial. Maybe one day they’ll be able to airdrop a bot, have it walk kilometers across a forest, and place itself in a position to snipe someone marked for death by one State or another.

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    Anyone still remembers when they said they would never use dog robots for weapon/war purposes? I do. Things always age like milk and it’s unsurprising.

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      Boston Dynamics said that, and they have stuck to that commitment. IIRC it’s even in the contract when you buy a robot from them that you will not equip it with a weapon.

      This article is about Ghost Robotics, which has never made such a commitment. They are known to supply gun-equipped robots to governments at all levels.

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    I recently visited the Boston Museum of Science where they have one of the Boston Dynamics robodogs on display, and they did a live demo with q&a. All I could think of the whole time was that one black mirror episode…

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    Only thing shocking about this is that it took this long. Any drone capable of carrying a weapon was going to get one. I mean, look at Ukraine right now. Consumer drones with soda bottle improvised explosives and cardboard drones. I can see a future where most warfare is drone vs drone, to see who can hit the other’s supply lines / storage first.

    The way Russia’s turtling with illegal mines, drones are basically one of the only ways to attack without taking massive losses while also moving slowly and being sitting ducks for artillery.

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      The future will never be about drone vs drone, as no one cares about the drones. They have to hit where it hurts, which is human life.

      Best case scenario, wars will be fought over drone command centres. Much more probably drones will be used to increase civilian suffering to end the wars.

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    So, how soon is it until they cram ChatGPT, Tensorflow, and a few others into this thing and actually make a Terminator?

    Also, let me know if anyone sees any naked dudes crawl out of some lightning balls.

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    We’re now a step closer to making dogs with BBs in their mouths and when they bark they shoot BBs at you.