Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot

Re:Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot by onion2k on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:15AM (#9026295)

No less scary than a human with a flamethrower deciding which humans are bad.

At least with the robot there's the potential for the excuse that it's gone wrong rather than wanting to kill people for whatever reason.

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Re:Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot by Shivetya on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:41AM (#9026379)

which is more frightening.

Oh, the robot did it. Great, like that is going to make it all okay. Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices, now who are we going to blame? The programmer or the robot? I guess whomever ever has the least protection under the law, the robot certainly won't care

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Re:Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot by 1stop on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:09AM (#9026474)

We don't have any military autonomous drones... there is pilot pulling the trigger... so I don't understand your point.

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Re:Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot by askmike on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:05AM (#9026462)

> Fuck, drones have already allowed those in charge to excuse themselves from bad choices

This has been happening since thousands of years before drones came along. Humans are used since the beginning of time..

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