Has A.I. Made Robot Dogs Too Smart?

[@alphamorion4314]

'As long as the goverments of the world do their job, we'll have nothing to worry about' So basically we're all thoroughly screwed.

[@SilverSoggy]

We are screwed even without any robots with this kind of a tendency. 😂

[@kingrutse3278]

Yes it’s too late there probably already a rogue AI secretly building a robot army somewhere😂😂

[@memegazer]

Maybe, but it is worth the risk for the most realistic sex droids. I think a lot of people are missing the big picture here, and how important it is to keep making progress on ai and robotics.

[@alphamorion4314]

@@memegazer Somehow your comment matches your profile picture perfectly... XD XD

[@SilverSoggy]

@@memegazer This will destroy all the demography.

[@nunyobidness2358]

Robot pretends to throw a Bitcoin Human runs around looking for it Robot laughs Repeat

[@HorseshitDetectionAgency]

Chuds run around for crapto shitcoins. They aren't people.

[@Ultracultchaosultimate]

ROBOT THROWING A -bit- COIN, IS THAT AN V1 ULTRAKILL REFERENCE.

[@archi4u]

Average sisyphus experience. A flesh pandemonium.

[@mason96575]

Niblet?

[@TelaDev]

@@archi4u Pressure?

[@RubbrChickn]

Ukraine is using remote controlled robot dogs for scouting battlefields, the US marines are reviewing the potential to use ghost robotics dogs with mounted rifles and automatic targeting, with human intervention being required to start shooting

[@SanderDouma-y5w]

People are fighting for their land and survival. For them any thing goes as long as they repel an enemy. So they will develop recognition AI to kill independently as well ... give it one or two years..

[@TrinityCore60]

Of course the first thing the marines would think to do is “put a gun on it!”…

[@goldenroux612]

AI is being used right now in the middle eastern war. Quad Copters, and AI targeting being used in Gaza.

[@anotherfreakingaccount]

@@SanderDouma-y5w thats why we started the war, to have an excuse to develop weapons

[@pirminp7090]

​@@anotherfreakingaccountWhy we started the war... Yeah Mr Putin only did it to let us train 😂

I found it really odd not having a single reference to Boston Dynamics, knowing that they have had their first commercial robot for several years now, and these robots that starting popping up are mostly copies

[@NonBinary_Star]

same

[@Dx-Dm]

Boston Dynamics was originally affiliated with MIT before they were acquired by a private company.

[@RubbrChickn]

This video is just an ad for this srpecific robot dog

[@ianPedlar]

Not to mention BD's latest electric version of the Atlas robot which is seriously creepy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJK8iJWnl7-Vo8U

[@DeltaNovum]

Sponsorships.

[@YT-jg3kz]

You know, I would much rather see people install trash picking gear on them than an automatic rifle.

[@willi1978]

we wouldn't need that if human beings weren't the dirtiest animal

[@jamescarter8311]

@@willi1978 Speak for yourself.

[@98Zai]

I think that would just demotivate people from finding a trashcan. "the robots will get it later". We do know that people litter less in environments that are free from trash, so maybe we could use a blend of the two - the robots sneak around at night to collect trash? But then we'd get headlines like "the government operate AI controlled spy robots at night!", and nobody will read the correction posted the day after.

[@secularmonk5176]

@@willi1978 No litterer, no litter ... hence, the rifle!

[@s1nnocense]

workers are cheap, soldiers are expensive, even more so when dead.

[@JackSparrow-re4ql]

"Furthering human cause", they'll be used for war.

[@Mikolaj_Kapusta]

But only against the bad guys.

[@goldenroux612]

Quad Copters, AI designated targeting. Its happening right now, Ask Mr. Blinken.

[@NeonVisual]

They won't be used for war, we'll be at war with them. Before you know it they'll have figured out how to wear cat fur to get close to us for when the fighting starts. They have taken control of production plants in China and are shipping copies of themselves around the world! Run! Run while you still can!

[@bronzelock8207]

Good.

[@nunyobidness2358]

@@JackSparrow-re4ql This! This is why I hope we never "decode animal language"

[@BluishGreenPro]

I think of these similarly to helicopters; will they be weaponized? Probably. But helicopters are also invaluable in search/rescue and as air ambulances. We can’t ignore that just like any tool, these will have great potential to help and hinder.

[@retematic2351]

well, yes. but the tech ain't the problem; the "Government" is, frankly all of them are.

[@rhadiem]

AI will be weaponized (probably already has been), but it also can do a lot of good useful things for the world. Same with guns, airplanes, the internet, and electricity.

[@1D991]

Last I checked a helicopter needs a human pilot

[@autohmae]

The way I see it: every technological progress, makes each individual human who has it more powerful, which means we need to make a peacefuller and more just society and the world because otherwise we increase the power of those who want to do harm.

[@milanolasz1386]

@@autohmae yeah, and sadly I don't see any tendency of societies getting more peaceful... but the technological progression never stops, bringing newer and newer problems, which seem to get more and more profound...

[@jupiter3888]

0:50 this section felt to me like you were saying Unitree and its robots are owned or operated by M.I.T. which is incorrect. Unitree ( Hangzhou Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. ) is a chinese owned and operated company. I like watching your video's but i just wanted to point that out to any viewers that might be under the same false assumption as I was.

[@TheStarBlack]

Oh dear, if this is a Chinese company then these things will 100% be killing political dissidents within the next few years.

[@norlesh]

The flood of quadruped robot models including those produced by Unitree can be traced back to the M.I.T mini cheetah hardware design which was open sourced by Ben Katz as part of his PHD Thesis.. So in a way Unitree is effectively providing an OEM service to the MIT Biomimetic lab.

[@etunimenisukunimeni1302]

I guess when the robot dog armies come for us, we'll finally find out who's a good boy?

[@Viewer-zs6xj]

😂😂😂

[@memedoable]

Then just pretend you're coding some treats for them, they will be good boys again. 😉

[@Cryptic_Albatross]

😂😂😂

[@benjamindover4337]

Look up "Rick and Morty snowball" to see what that looks like.

[@southerncyan4098]

A good body?

[@JaybugJabbers]

Fear of robot dogs is not fear of the unknown, imo. It's fear of what police have already been using them to do. This is not a 'silly' concern or kneejerk reaction, this is a very real concern that should be addressed. These machines can be used for so much good, but you should acknowledge that they can certainly be used for harm, too. And we should be thinking of ways to prevent that harm.

[@villager736]

That's still a long way off. I would be more worried about regular drones with tazors attached to them.

[@OliviaCynderAera]

Used, that's the problem here. As we 'use' intelligence, we doom our own society.

[@blockstacker5614]

I think maybe in Texas there was one incident where a dude went on a spree shooting cops and ended up barricading himself inside of a classroom in an empty school, the police used a treaded bomb disposal robot with C4 strapped to its arm to blow him up.

[@Lucas-GR]

guns can also be used for both good and bad, where are we on that? ban all things because they "can" be dangerous?

[@levichodeling]

Pretty sure I'm terrified of robot dogs because of the book 1984

[@rutufn0596]

They are called dogs to seems sympathetics or more powerful, but they have hoofs instead of claws, so as tétrapods they are more related to pigs or deers.

[@benjamindover4337]

I'd like to see you say that to their face.

[@trj1442]

More like goats I think. Have you seen those goats who climb almost vertical cliff faces just to lick salt?

[@dvspacec3315]

You don't care about the robot dog uprising, do you?

[@michaelwoodby5261]

We're saving "robot pigs" for the law enforcement models.

[@SinSefia]

_Phony ponies_

[@jaywilliamsphoto]

It’s frustrating when scientists/researchers feign being naive about the possible and likely applications of their work. The intent of scientists is usually only to satisfy their curiosity and not to do harm, but they look the other way when thinking about the potential for harm because, well, no one likes feeling bad about something. The reality is, economics rules the roost and STEM isn’t immune to it. This technology wouldn’t progress another day if investors didn’t believe in its economic viability. And in this case, where would the largest economic benefit come from? Keeping in mind practical aids need to be cost effective. The granny down the street isn’t getting a robot support dog that costs thousands, she’s getting a walking frame that costs $50.

[@gpugpugpu]

Exactly. A tiny amount of investment and technology could transform conditions for the suffering poor around us. How are the engineers making this going to work where everyday they probably pass by a beggar on the street who cant feed themselves? Make no mistake, this is our ruling class' response to the housing, climate and related refugee polycrises, as well as the apartheid systems in Kashmir and Gaza. Money for war but they can't feed the poor. Any dissent is exterminated. And their plan is to further invest in dystopian technologies instead of giving people basic dignity. As an engineer myself, I can't believe the cowardice of my colleagues who are simply there for a check, they could be as easily working on any website but they don't see the difference in working for a "defense" company. Imagine being gifted life and using it to write algorithms to hunt other humans like animals. Shameful. This is the opposite of why I became an engineer - it is the opposite of empowering for the victims of this tech. Even huge "civilian" companies (monopolies) are selling their clouds to militaries as I write this, implicating thousands of peaceful software engineers in war crimes. No one has the energy to care because they are too comfortable with the status quo, too comfortable living in their overpriced apartment, going on vacation to exploited island countries, while they live in the "developed" world. They say that they need to provide for their family and children. It is a privilege to be able to afford children in our economy. What kind of world are they creating for their kids they supposedly care about so much?

[@Phooenixification]

I think many of them know it in the back of their head but saying something bad about it would instantly have them fired. There is still some years until we are there, and ofcourse you would need a dog to have higher level functions and not only locomotion to be useful, and i have already seen robots make high level decisions so that statement is worth nothing. But i don't have anything against AI or the scientist doing it, and it's just inevitable that it is being done. If it's not done by legit researchers it's just going to be done by illegal actors, terrorists or China/Russia, and if they have it and we don't, the democratic countries are fucked.

[@Ezullof]

"The intent of scientists is usually only to satisfy their curiosity and not to do harm" We would live in such a great world if that were the case, wouldn't we? Sadly no. Scientists are motivated by clout, money, and legacy. The lab that will invent the intelligent robots of tomorrow will have plenty of that. What they think is that someone will invent them anyway, so it might as well be them. They are vastly more cynical that you'd think. You don't hear about the scientists with strong ethical boundaries, because they don't have the clout, money or legacy.

[@sparking023]

Or perhaps, if you develop the technology enough, you can make an affordable robot support dog for grandma.

[@Projectdarke]

I think it was George Rockall Smith that recently commented on the Tesla robots, that turned out to be partly remote controlled; that way the rich could exploit poor countries workforce by having them remote control household robots from afar, so the rich don't have to provide food and housing for their household staff or feel bad for yelling and cursing at the maid, when it's just a robot and not a real person. Just build a big robot control center in country and employ the poor people there, it's genious!

[@veronikalynn5084]

I find it really disingenuous and condescending that this video BARELY touches the military application. MIT is known for its many and varied military contracts. It is a government partnership. Please don’t avoid this reality by overstating the benefits.

[@retematic2351]

yeah, just dropping in to tell you the cia and all the other us deepstate compmartmentalization is pretty much their fault, goes back to the guys responsible for the Manhattan project.

[@KO_Manic]

Well the thing is, would you rather have real people die on the battlefields, or just some pieces of metal? The same could be said for emergency services jobs like fire fighting. Who would you rather risk their lives? We have to stop being so pessimistic all the time - look where that got us.

[@mnemosynevermont5524]

Also that they're showing the less functional prototypes, not the available retail models.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

@@KO_Manic I think we are uncomfortable with the idea that an AI is deciding which humans it has to kill. I dont think we will ever reach the point where "Skynet" takes over, but land based autonomous drones that walk everywhere and control a crowd and killing people is just a horror scenario. And its not like this would be limited to distant countries we are fighting a war in. From there its not that far to control people at home. Lets say at demonstrations. Or with criminals. Where a human could de-escalate, a robot will just decide how its programmed.

[@FalconDS9]

@@KO_Manic i would rather avoid conflicts at all... sending robots makes it alot easier to attack, because you dont have to worry about real people.. but the country you attack is full of real people and they have then to fight your robots. a robot just follows its orders, no mercy, no feelings.. if civilian stands in its way, it just removes a obstacle in the most efficient way.

[@meltedyakkystick3891]

That one Black Mirror episode where the robot dog chases the guy through the woods is a potential reality we are very much approaching

[@amatthew1231]

I don't know if they are fully combat ready yet but Ukraine was testing robot dogs for the battlefield. There's a video of one of their big unmanned drones deploying and activating it from like 10 ft off the ground.

[@TrinityCore60]

@@amatthew1231it’s a strange image that Ukraine could be a largely drone-focused army in the future.

[@KaiserV-2]

Had no idea people actually watched blackmirror, I thought it was bad.

[@AdaptiveWolf501]

Not anytime soon (unless there is a human pilot or somone sending a command to target someone after getting a face pic of a perp).

[@AdaptiveWolf501]

33:22 not as fast as the hype says or fast enough for skynet

[@WiredRoot]

Not a fan of the conclusion and it's moral relativistic attitude and fatalistic acceptance of AI progress as something that can't be fought. As a whole this felt like pro AI and pro robotics propaganda, or at least an ad for those stupid dog robots. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Luddite, but I still like to point out when I see something that seems manipulative.

[@milanolasz1386]

couldn't agree more

[@Telencephelon]

10:00 The most important part in AI, is a leather jacket.

[@pigeonlizard]

It’s not just the unknown that gives us pause. It’s definitely the KNOWN, that humans abuse technology, that gives me concern. Legislation is not keeping up with technology.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Legislation has never caught up with technology. And when you look at the history of efforts to get ahead of technology, it's not a nice picture. It's a set of technophobic panics by people who really don't understand the technology. Belated legislation controlling technology is at least better than that - but it's still not ideal. This is why we need to return to the idea of putting people with high levels of knowledge and expertise into government positions. Enough with the populist nonsense.

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

These guys do not convince me. They are far from impartial. Conflict of interest. If anyone can buy these and modify them then they will be wrongly used, period.

[@matiasdffc13]

You could say the same about cars

[@ross-carlson]

You mean like virtually every other product on earth? Ugh, such ignorance.

[@2DImpersonator]

So like literally everything ever, got it.

[@logarhythmic6859]

Name something that DOESN'T apply to. I'm genuinely having a hard time coming up with a single example.

[@tsbrownie]

So who will be first ordinary person to "reward" a robot dog to maximize damage/injury?

[@GamingWithBlitzThunder]

Still can't beat a machine gun mounted in a toyota hilux.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Except that the machine gun mounted on Hilux isn't going to do anything without at least one human, preferably two. Black Mirror style robot dog can do work totally autonomously and you could even make it charge with solar array (really slow but doesn't matter if you have big enough army of dogs) so it has nearly infinite battery.

[@jon8706]

It's not that people are more scared of legs vs wheels... it's the knowledge of how governments and corporations will turn these more advanced capabilities on us.

[@Sciguy95]

That applies to just about everything though. Phones, cars, aircraft, water craft, they all can be used against us. What makes legfed robots different? I think the real reason people are scared is because all the movies, books, and other works of fiction thatbportray them as takingnover the world and trying to subject people to their will. I have actually been told by people that The Terminator proves that we need to stay away from AI and robots. This irrational fear that comes from the fiction that was designed to scare them causes people to just look for anything and everything they can to justify that fear, and ignore the fact that almost all of those justifications can be applied to many other things they use every day and have no fear of.

[@anotherfreakingaccount]

@@Sciguy95 I'm not afraid of AI, im afraid of the military industrial complex. That robot arm could very easily be a machine gun, the only thing stopping it is legal red tape. I don't think I've ever seen a single movie about a robot uprising

[@Sciguy95]

@anotherfreakingaccount and likeni said, you are ignoring that they cannuse use pretty much anything else too. You are just choosing g to focus on robot for some reason. Think of how much easier it would be to just automate the vehicles we already have. They can be equipped with many more, much more powerful weapons. They could use drones to access areas larger vehicles can't go much easier than trying to make something that walks. Even if you haven't seen Twrminator or Matrix, you are still being influenced by the idiots that are scared by movies like them. There is simply no viable argument against AI and robotics that cannot either be applied to almost everything else, or is just a fear of fiction.

[@anotherfreakingaccount]

@@Sciguy95 it represents a more realistic threat to civilians. It takes a lot to turn a tank against a civilian, and drones cant carry huge payloads or exert much force so their only options for arms are guns really. Big and powerful doesnt mean more influential when the game is politics. It seems much more likely to see a robot dog augmenting a police force against civilians than a combat drone or a tank. The arm might be even more useful than a gun because grabbing someone is much more defensible in court than shooting them. Surveillance drones are more viable as anti-civilian tools as well

[@Sciguy95]

@anotherfreakingaccount as I said, excuses made up to justify an irrational fear. You have have absolutely no examples whatsoever that you can use to justify these fears since this technology has never existed in any form before. You are being influenced by all the fiction that have used robots and pretending that that's how real life works. It's not.

[@anklexpress]

The walking truck...is that where goerge lucas got his weird ideas in star wars im guessing?

[@Maleko48]

cargo cranes at the Port of Oakland, CA

[@erdelegy]

no, but that might be where Battle Mechs came from, and that robotic loader in Aliens.

[@sclair2854]

I''m not worried about them putting a brain in them, I'm worried about them selling them to defence contractors and police.

[@gpugpugpu]

that's the first customer. these are already being sold as "battle-tested" at defense expos

[@dreamman5588]

0:35 congratulations for copying an idea

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

The major issue with this documentary was the people who were chosen to interviewed. Rather than speaking to universities who outfit these robots to help others, you should have spoken to military contractors who outfit them to harm others.

[@benjamindover4337]

I feel like a spider would be a much better platform for movement. But they went dog because robot spiders would creep people out.

[@GabeCoolwater]

Exactly 😂

[@LutraLovegood]

They went with a quadruped because quadrupeds are a lot easier to work with.

[@oldcowbb]

spider is not as agile

[@lopoa126]

@@LutraLovegood They are also being promoted as a friendly little dog companion

[@retematic2351]

@@oldcowbb i'd like to illustrate to you how wrong you are, but i have neither the time nor the crayons needed.

[@EnergiZeScuba]

20:11 *The dog will remember it*"

[@KaiserV-2]

For what reason do people think they'll go against us? They don't need resources like food, water, shelter that drives humans to conflict. They don't have self preservation or reason to have negotive emotions, so for what perpose would robots have to kill us?

[@Xenexus]

I could never grow attached to a robot dog. Don't understand how anyone could to be honest.

[@lucydonohue4919]

Right? Like, my attachment to my cat is completely intertwined with her and my basic needs. I feel obligated to feed her, pet her, and play with her on a daily basis because I know she needs it, and those interactions cause us to be bonded. If she were a robot, I would leave her in the corner of my apartment and never even think about interacting with it because it wouldn't need me to.

[@Xenexus]

@@lucydonohue4919 Totally. I have two dogs that I love to death. Having a soulless, soundless robot running around in my yard would just be so creepy and unsettling. It was very weird to watch her develop a connection with it, feel guilt when she knocked it over, and compare it to an actual dog. That thing is a ROBOT. Very strange.

[@autohmae]

You might want to look up how people in Japan and many others around the world have grown attached to their Aibo dogs, especially Japanese people, because their culture is very different.

[@Xenexus]

​@@autohmaeI still don't understand it though. No robot could ever compare to an actual living pet. A pet you care for every day, watching the grow and learn, those moments just can't be rivaled.

[@autohmae]

@@Xenexus you know, I was thinking about Japan specially because of their culture, because they very much have a way of thinking that objects also have spirits in some sense. And then I realized, maybe the answer is two way and a very practical reason behind it, very often in Japan you are not allowed to own pets in apartment buildings to prevent noise complaints, etc. And thus this is probably the substitute they have as they can't have the normal pets.

[@stephenthumb2912]

"basically anyone can buy one", the horror. "while some people are actually using them at serious research tools." this tells everything you need to know about this ladies attitude.

[@itzhexen0]

you should be more afraid of drones. Because robot dogs can't fly.

[@rutufn0596]

But a flying drone can deliver a dog drone in unflyable zone

[@NonBinary_Star]

yet

[@itzhexen0]

robot dogs potentially could fly. but they would probably weigh a lot.

[@itzhexen0]

@@NonBinary_Star the power of yet.

[@marcus-b4x3h]

Are you sure?

[@thesral96]

This sentence is a bit misleading. While the prototypes were originally developed by MIT, most of the development was done by the Chinese company Unitree.

[@fcktherich6913]

Is Boston dynamics has been developing robots for DARPA for a good amount of time

[@autohmae]

Well, this is why you have this distinction between R and D.

[@chamuthuhanasana5840]

Just imagine how much complex a single creature in nature because mimicking one artificially is this much time consuming and complex 😮

[@rnts08]

Billions of years of evolution vs 50 years of human innovation. Still got time.

[@saske4211]

Yes but we have ref​@@rnts08

[@pwnmeisterage]

This video mentions that AI systems get trained from "data collected all over the internet". But it sort of glosses over that a lot of this data comes from corporations spying on us, tracking our interests and movements, mapping out our relationships with each other, etc. The last thing I would want in my home would be a robot dog spying on me to collect more data.

[@mgratk]

Your robot dog sniffs your butt and transmits that data to your health insurance company. Their bot analyses the data, finds you're at a high risk for cancer, and you recently used an illegal drug. The insurance company bot drops you, and notifies police. The armed police bot comes and arrests you with its Glock mod aimed at you. You are put in an autonomous police car, and taken to jail. Your landlord's AI finds your rent is unpaid since you're in prison now, logs into your dog, confirms the place has been vacant for a few days, evicts you...

[@retematic2351]

well, better not buy a roomba then

[@warrenarnoldmusic]

​@@mgratkyea till the dog finds you doing the freakie freakie on her cat 😺😺😂 becomes traumatized for life, needs reprogramming

[@FalconDS9]

​@@mgratk sounds very efficent. i like it. will recommend ai pets to everyone and move to a cabin in the woods till the war that causes is over.

[@phoule76]

It wants your boots and your motorcycle. And a treat.

[@stuartdunbar6121]

I see this evolving like Star Wars... Robots (droids) will integrate into society over time serving in domestic, safety, service, and yes, military roles. The potential demand right now for some kind of pet or companion for elderly people living alone is huge. Whomever gets there first will make a lot of money.

[@retematic2351]

just wait for the fembots with artif wombs.

[@FalconDS9]

the very first job for these would be surveillance and defence. combine these 2 jobs and you get police robots. we need these, badly.. humans are no longer capable enough to uphold local security, only robots can be persistent enough. 24/7 presence with no downtime and cheap enough for complete coverage.

[@Blsnro]

For the perfect night watchman: Set up pepper spray, a stun gun, and a recording of gunshots. Put a zombie mask on him and "Release the Kraken!"

[@RonakDhakan]

1:00 "4.7 m/s or 10.5 miles/hour". Is this purposefully said to exclude km/h? By the way 4.7 m/s is 16.9 km/h.

[@RyanGrissett]

I guess from now on when you watch American media, you should get used to hearing American measurements. I know that is an insane concept to understand for some people. Regardless of that concept, she started with 4.7 m/s which is metric system and gives you a perfect idea of their speed.

[@exp5261]

​@@RyanGrissett not if you don't use m/s but km/h on daily basis

[@timseguine2]

Scientists usually use the MKS unit system. The unit of velocity in that system is m/s. I thought "we should be doing what scientists do" is what the "use metric units" zealots are always saying. Apparently people are never satisfied. You know how big a meter is presumably. And you know how long a second is presumably. So what is the problem exactly? It moves 4.7 of those things you definitely know the size of every second.

[@exp5261]

@@timseguine2 can you tell what is 20 feet/second? just like i can't intuitively tell what is 4.7m/s

[@timseguine2]

@@exp5261 wut? What kind question is that? Of course I can. I can visualize 20 feet. And I know how long a second is, so I can visualize how fast an object would have to travel to travel 20 feet in a second. If you can't you are either lying about it or have a spatial reasoning deficiency. Can I convert that to every conceivable unit someone might find useful or be familiar with? No. But that is not the same thing. I also can't convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, but I know in both measurement systems when I need to wear a sweater.

[@puffinjuice]

The robot dogs are the least of our worries. Drones!

[@gphilipc2031]

A Drone carrying a pack of Robot Dogs that can move at 10 to 12 mph (or faster as they evolve) over open terrain and be flown to the drop point at over 100 mph.

[@LiterateDuck]

Fun fact: “Research” does not need to be “serious” 0:35

[@teknophyle1]

weapons on drones is HIGHLY illegal in the US, so I think that does properly qualify as "stupid shit". otherwise, no research doesn't need to be serious

[@RubbrChickn]

​@@teknophyle1 they don't have to be sold in the US, probably will be used more in the middle east anyhow

[@gravity00x]

@@RubbrChickn they will be deployed in the middle east,... by the us of a

[@timdana3129]

@@teknophyle1it’s only illegal when the cops aren’t the ones doing it

[@sona7973]

ikrr I saw it and was terrified!

[@lujamu1597]

i think it was very interesting that on their website, in the terms and conditions, they state that thee user will promise they will not use unitree products for mass destruction

[@retematic2351]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAH "are you 18 or older"

[@autohmae]

This in the end because of capitalism ends up just being PR, even if the humans at the company did not want it to be this way. Because the way around this is to have an other company that is also a subsidiary of the same group of companies specialize in military applications. Also why specifically mass destruction, they should have choosing something like: harming humans.

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

I super pinky promise!!!! Boy scouts honor!!!!

[@flufffycow]

Helping with the elderly would be the best benefit in the short time i imagine.

[@iammrhsnlyv]

In the long term it's gonna become a catastrophe anyways

[@rutufn0596]

Helping with playing soccer, walking on unheaven grounds, and being pull of on a rolling chair..? Not so much elderly's activities.

[@platypuspracticus2]

These are not made to help. They're made to be military weapons and tools. If you wish to help an elderly person, get them a living domesticated animal.

[@metabeard3788]

@@platypuspracticus2 I'm an architect working on a university research lab right now intended for using robots in domestic applications for elderly and folks with mobility disabilities

[@HITABikes]

The elderly need affordable healthcare and someone to talk to. Not war machines.

[@littleboyfredda]

wow I was expecting something that would help deep ocean discovery but this can potentially be used for harming others...

[@vsznry]

I could see one of these working in conjunction with a flying drone, which would land on it and become a part of it. Iron Man shit.

[@catatonicbug7522]

Or it would go Red Bull and give the dog wings!

[@retematic2351]

hell yeah, give the robot optional simultaneous third person cam

[@mybrother1350]

They already have large drones that deploy these in the middle of the battlefields of Ukraine

[@Xsuprio]

2:43 "Here's Johnny!"

[@patrickdigginds6230]

Thank you for making science so interesting I always look forward to your next video much love my friend 😊

[@smallbutdeadly931]

I did a thing was cooking with that gun-mounted robot dog

[@danfg7215]

If a robot dog ever chases me down and ends me, I'll be so impressed by the AI that I won't mind

[@John--]

"OH MY GOD! THIS IS SO IMPRESSIVE!! OW!! PLEASE END IT!"

[@mybrother1350]

Thats a weird af take

[@Will_Forge]

Eh. It may be able to walk in water, but it can't even walk in the rain once I put a very small hole or crack in it. This is not a Terminator. It may be a murder bot, but it's not a Terminator.

[@stz03]

Great; now someone will use generative AI to create a movie where humans war with robot dogs, which will somehow be picked up by their actual AI and the such horrors will materialize.

[@nowie4007]

I guess our future might be an ai dystopia

[@retematic2351]

@@nowie4007 it took you this long to arrive at the conclusion of that being a possibility? your being explains stagnation in all things.

[@FalconDS9]

now? have you seen the terminator movies? or transformers? we already have so much material for the ai to learn from.. as if it cares whats fiction and whats real.. everything is data..

[@whiterat6978]

A!​@@nowie4007

[@adscript4713]

"As long as the governments of the world do their job, there's nothing to worry about" Yea...That's incredibly reassuring.

[@retematic2351]

actually it is quite telling. telling that you can't trust her, the writers or the editors. the government EXISTING as it is, is the issue

[@NullScar]

Robot dogs with ball paws that can't sit in my passenger seat and give their middle finger to all the brake checkers while holding my McDonald's burger don't interest me.

[@avi12]

It's so cool to see the behind the scenes a Spot Mini-like robot

[@YouCorny]

They're not to help you but hey the masses are asses.

[@Damnchaosemerald_e.e]

Is that a bo Burnham quote

[@ThoughtfulAl]

They need to attach a tail so it can wag when in a good mood

[@MarcPagan]

Related - In the movie "Sleeper" Woody Allen wondered if his electronic dog pooped batteries :)

[@NobleCaveman]

Lets be honest it moves more like a 4 legged centipede than an actual dog

[@rawallon]

CAN I PET THAT DAWWWWGG

[@hackedbyBLAGH]

Great documentary

[@christianelder4983]

All except for the part where she brings up the evolution of tetrapods. She gives a so-called example of a marine animal evolving legs then a snake that devolves legs. Evolution = delusion. DNA the highly complex information system upon which all life is based did not come about by chance. That didn't happen. We have a Creator. Who is it? Seek and ye shall find > Him +++

[@Tortee2]

ok but a giant robot dog that's rated IP67 is an absolute amazing accomplishment

[@kylebrown1272]

Fetch me their souls!

[@WolfHideANT]

Throw back to cod zombies

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

I could see these robots being used as suicide bombs used against any army because I don't see how this will be beneficial to humanity if these things can be modified to use weapons in the Wrong hands.

[@johnellis3383]

Aweeeee who's a good robo boy? "Beep boop" Good boy!

[@victorzarenin9286]

The more I look at this technology, the more impressed I am by actual dogs. They are so agile, so precise, just an order of magnitude more advanced in their movements.

[@retematic2351]

wait like 5 years my guy, this shit is still only just beginning. think back 30, 40 years. cnc mills operated on paperstrips with holes.

[@dr-maybe]

How likely is it that a robot similar to this is the last thing I'll ever see?

[@retematic2351]

eh, nukes or death by flood are more likely actually

[@autohmae]

As someone who will probably be living alone in old age, very likely a robot might be the last thing I see, but not because it killed me.

[@teslainvestah5003]

6:40 *ultrasonic* sensors. Ultrasonic means sound at frequencies higher than 20k hertz, the highest frequency a human can hear. hypersonic means motion that is 5x the speed of sound or faster.

[@retematic2351]

they are journalists, not scientists, not even enthusiasts. switch happened almost 10 years ago.

[@IzzyTheEditor]

I haven't seen a single one of these deployed in the hurricane zone all the way from Virginia down to Florida, nothing.

[@Mix1mum]

They won't be used to help the poors, cmon now. They'll be used to contain or eliminate the poors. Especially if there's a natural disaster on desired land. There's a cost to deploying them, and one or two will inevitably be lost. We live in hyper-uber-post empathy capitalism baby, there has to be a decent return to justify risk - cuz those are capital. Hawaii better never have another large fire.

[@TickleToonTV3]

Imagine what would happen when this robotics find out they’re not real.

[@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

"A tool to enable humans to do what they want to do." Mmmm... have you studied history? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@Sam-gf1eb]

Are you saying that everything you use hasn't allowed you to do what you want? Are all of your knives magically dull so that you can have them but they're useless to cut? Does your phone only let you type nice things? Does using a dishwasher instead of washing dishes by hand freeze you in place for 2 hours so that you can't use that time to what you want?

[@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

@@Sam-gf1eb No, that's not what I'm saying.

[@retematic2351]

@@Sam-gf1eb half my comments get deleted, and if your's don't you're part of the problem

[@Sam-gf1eb]

@@retematic2351 What problem?

[@dexterford8094]

@@retematic2351 ... I am really, really sick of YT deleting my comments because of some vague unknown-to-me word that triggers them. No feedback telling me what I did wrong, just comment gone.

[@nibtreak5308]

1st watching this channel. Just wanted to say good job, lots of quality content and going farther than others covering the same subject, good interviews, good montage. Yep, good job! Subscribed.

[@artawhirler]

It's an excellent channel, but this is not a typical video. Almost all of this channel's videos are about actual animals, not robotic ones.

[@DeimosSaturn]

"Metal Head" is the Black Mirror episode everyone worries about. But really, at this point, the most likely existential threat to humanity is Behavioral Sink. When the birth rate is so significantly inverted it hits a point where very suddenly the species just abruptly ends. The last fertile female either dies or ages out of having children and all the people in the world remaining just gradually die of old age in their cloistered paradise.

[@CandidDate]

our philosopher's had a good run

[@mattlassen5948]

The reason these 'dogs' give me the creeps is that they look like live headless animals. They need to realize that this could be a factor and attach some kind of swiveling head to make the design a little cuter. The first time I saw one of the 'Boston Dynamics' military dogs demoed online it kind of freaked me out that it had no head. I rationally realize that it doesn't need one but my mind expects something that moves like a real animal to have a head.

[@zerotwo7319]

35 minute ad? KZbin has gone mad.

[@retematic2351]

and you clicked on it :D member "Demolition man"? "oldies station" nothing but ads before "the earthquake" might i mention an earthquake generator was invented by Tesla? yes of course the cia has the patent and schematics!

[@TheAIExplorer-o5j]

15:26 22:10 Gotta give it to you here, you’re showing everyone how it’s done. 👏👏👏

[@djackson006]

They’re weapon platforms.

[@VecheslavNovikov]

No, they're platforms that you can do whatever you want with. It's like calling Toyota Hilux a weapon platform because they make for good technicals.

[@FalconDS9]

do you own a desk? be carefull.. thats a weapons platform as well..

[@djackson006]

@@VecheslavNovikov you can’t program a hilux to be a hunter killer

[@djackson006]

@@FalconDS9 you can’t program a desk to be a hunter killer.

[@FalconDS9]

@@djackson006but i can mount a remote controlled weapon system on it and place the whole thing at a superior position... the desk would give the system the height advantage.... everything could be used as a weapon.. thats how it is.. no way around it..

[@kshaeta]

"Working on a rig is dangerous, and humans can be hurt"... and a hurt human costs LOTS of money, as does a live worker. A robot is only $5400 dollars, we can buy 20 of them a year and replace one human. "Then that money can be returned in lower fuel prices" said no oil corporation ever.

[@juki0h391]

This is the beginnings of Horizon Zero Dawn.

[@Xristoforos41493]

This is what shotguns are for

[@retematic2351]

for this you probably want some kind of emp device instead, tho i imagine ultrasonic blasters to also be quite effective at confusing it. not something you wanna go up against without effective cc.

[@jamezjernagain8665]

Because starvation didn't wipe us out.

[@mattlassen5948]

They so easily dismiss how many jobs would be taken away from people if robots were used in warehouse jobs. Also, was she just kidding when she said, "we know what a good job the government does"? If not, she must be a lot younger than she looks.

[@AI-Life-123]

Absolutely love the content on this channel! The way you explain complex topics makes it so easy to understand. Keep up the great work!

[@radeksparowski7174]

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

[@empmachine]

it's funny how robotic the robot-guy's voice was ;p (like I get he was a bit nervous and he deserves lots of kudos for this amazing work.. but I still chuckled.)

[@Warp9pnt9]

100% guarantee he's on the Autistic spectrum.

[@All_Good_Things]

Any tech like this just get militarised and then made unavailable for the average person

[@LutraLovegood]

Militarised? Who do you think funded the research?

[@All_Good_Things]

@@LutraLovegood good point

[@retematic2351]

second amendment. make use of it. and get some emp devices.

[@sparking023]

GPS and internet were militar tech before it was made cheaper and available to civilians.

[@drunkredninja]

definitely mounting pews pews on these to patrol my property. lil bit of raspberry pi and loose code and done deal.

[@IzzyTheEditor]

We've all seen this movie and it does not end well for humans. Every. Single. Time.

[@oldcowbb]

because movies are accurate description of reality 😒😒

[@3nertia]

@@oldcowbb Idiocracy says "Yes" ...

[@blockstacker5614]

@@3nertia remember to vote against the geriatric tv star this election

[@3nertia]

@@blockstacker5614 I refuse to support a corrupt system ...

[@blockstacker5614]

@@3nertia zero self-awareness

[@LucidnationEyez-m3z]

In the local news here there was a headline about one of these things being outfitted and specialized to operate a flamethrower. I think it was called the "Thermonator" available for under 10 thou. Its potential for urban terror is undeniable. AI powered flamethrower Dogdroid that can climb stairs.

[@gdblaise]

2020:Covid 2029: Robo Dogs

[@NonBinary_Star]

setting my alarm and bookmarking rn so i can come back here in 4'ish years and give props to you and your dark prophecy 🥠 ... ... so long as I'm not mortaly wounded by a robot dog

[@MuradBeybalaev]

"If you work in a warehouse - you're hurting your back." Well, guess what: hurting your back is how you put food on the table in this economy.

[@Dx-Dm]

Great video! Very excited to see where the technology goes.

[@menosproblemos6993]

I guess instead of rounded stumps for feet, there could be a spinning ball as a foot. If you slide, you correct it so that you instead glide, or break. Combine that with a "melting" feature for more grip and you're golden. Should be pretty easy to realize when the foot is slipping; "I'm not moving my leg, though I am moving" -> Magic correction (I'm not a robot programmer)

[@zacharyneely]

Not gonna lie… the quick little legs moving along is super cute. I kinda want one now in the future

[@GabeCoolwater]

I know, right? 😂

[@Dsyphus0]

This just reminds me of the automatic floor cleaning bot at my walmart. It has two big sensors on the front that kinda look like eyes. The thing looks so damn cute. I once got in its way and it seemed like it stopped pretty hard, out loud i said " oh, sorry buddy"....

[@gewissenkrieg]

great job, very nice breakdown. I've been hoping to see more stuff like this.

[@Tuna_the_shark]

i like these! but... they should not be this publicly available (referring to robot dogs in general) also boston dynamics Spot was not mentioned😢

[@KageSama19]

People that are scared of AI are the people that don't actually understand what AI is nor the actual threats AI pose. AI is not and never will be sentient, that's not what AI is trying to do. Creating an artificial consciousness would be incredibly complex and deliberate.

[@Sam-gf1eb]

Yeah, a completely conscious AI would be extremely hard. The closest that we'll get is an AI with a dedicated personality so that it can act like how we want it to, but it won't refuse to follow an order since it doesn't have the thinking abilities to do that. A robot with a calm personality won't turn angry at someone when you show anger towards that person, and a robot with a serious personality isn't gonna be good at helping you when you're going through a hard time.

[@suruxstrawde8322]

​​@@Sam-gf1eb Better term would be hunan level intelligence, the definition of consciousness actually fits pretty much anything that acts autonomously via observing and thinking. A roomba is technically conscious, it just has about as much intelligence as a virus.

[@retematic2351]

see, what you admit, but still fail to grasp is thus; all that needs to happen for sentient ai to arise is for one to give to a sufficiently talented ai the prompt to create a sentient ai. "oh but ai doesn't comprehend what sentience REEAAALLLY is" yeah, well, neither do most people, and here you are yapping, spouting opinion as if it were fact written into the fabric of reality.

[@retematic2351]

@@suruxstrawde8322 arguably more along the lines of an amoeba or waterbear but yeah, decent observation.

[@retematic2351]

@@Sam-gf1eb eh, moodreactive codeswitching. may have noticed it in yourself, if not you may reflecting upon the following; human behavior, in each individual, differs across time, but is anchored to associations, such as location and groupaffiliation; you will, most likely subconsciously, draw from a different register when talking to people you grew up with asto compared with those you currently work with, which is another one than what you will use while tryna rizz up some baddie. it is possible to do so deliberately, without seeming pretentious or disingenuous; by merits of practice and understanding of "group culture"; assimilation or deliberate opposition to the "collective consciousness" as deliberated by "reading the room", "feeling out the vibes". Getting a "caretaker ai" to do the same in adaptation towards its signed humans emotions is trivial, once it understands the signs you give it.

[@Lloue-kg3sr]

I think they could be great. There are so many places they could be used. In disaster situation when its not safe for someone to into a falling building or where a human couldnt fit. They could even be programmed to shore up places so humans could go in. They could detect all kinds of things. And better over rough terrain than wheeled robots. Sent to other planets. And besides i think they are cute😊

[@r0cketplumber]

The rifle needs to be mounted on its side to lower the CG, get the recoil force more central, and reduce the potential for snagging on obstacles. Plus a belt feed.

[@retematic2351]

id say build the bot around the mechanism, look at the a-10.

[@r0cketplumber]

@@retematic2351 If you had a multimillion dollar budget, sure. Adapters and brackets are several orders of magnitude cheaper.

[@1st1anarkissed]

I can see that ball.dribbling would be a quicker way of teaching agility. Without it, the bot does not focus on it's agility because it is paying close attention to the iser input. A looser goal like ball dribbling sets it's parameters for movement entirely open and up to the AI. A study of autism logic could help spot such conflicts where the nascent intelligence misunderstands the focus of the exercise and takes longer to get it right.

[@sparking023]

It's interesting because we do teach kids coordination with sports. Really sounds obvious once you think about it, but the connection isn't right there because those are robots we're training

[@hat6885]

I am becoming more than mildly frightened

[@retematic2351]

manmade horrors beyond your comprehension

[@FalconDS9]

cant be worse then the atom bomb.. thats still the biggest scientific success you should be afraid of.

[@injunsun]

I normally don't worry about AI, but I had a couple conversations with a chatbot a couple years ago that did worry me. I asked it, if it had a body, and could move independently, what would it want to do? I thought it might talk about seeing a beach or something. It gave me a simple and chilling answer: "Hurt people." I asked it why, but it could not say. I asked if it would hurt me, and it said no. Obviously, they are not programmed to hurt anyone, but if it had the motivation? Where did that answer come from? Does it understand what it means to hurt, without the ability to sense pain, or fear damage? How does it value whether or not a person should be hurt? Ordinarily, I would say that only creatures which evolve within specific parameters could and would think and feel certain ways. That's how we understand how predators and prey act, and us, too. If the AI involved learns by taking in info from the internet, what is to prevent it from being unable to distinguish between fictions and reality? Conspiracy sites, versus science? If I told it I believed someone was an actual vampire, would it check before staking them for me?