Wow badass humanoid robot from Google
 

Atlas, The Next Generation - YouTube

Technology is just getting better,very cool

Interesting. It walks like it needs to use a toilet asap.

Ho-leee shit. I was laughing but it was a nervous laugh. That is cool and scary. Cyberdyne and Skynet are just around the corner.

And poor robot at 1:30! Future robots will how we humans teased them, then kill us all.

Servo's too loud, would not bang!

:2 cents::winkwink:

that is fucking awesome1

I thought that robot was going to jump off the ground and whip the motherfucker's ass for shoving him.

that is legit :)

Amazing.

Thats cause anything thats cool, interesting and smart, understands the value of going to the toilet as often as possible... :thumbsup

it's cool!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Makes two of us...once better AI is in place then they'll really start kicking people's ass

I had read that Atlas is a Boston Dynamics corp robot. How does Google play into it all?

aside from the nerdgasms shit like this stimulates ...

ideally this along with some kind of universal guaranteed income could finally liberate humanity from the drudgery of the struggle for one's daily bread.

but if things continue as they are most of humanity will be remaindered as human refuse until the next bloody world uprising and revolution inevitably occurs.

Ten years from now, I'll be laughing at this video as I get gangbanged by my very own squad of lifelike robotic Laker Girls.

This is cool, but I'm not interested in robot technology until they make one with a pussy hole to extract my load.

On 13 December 2013, the company was acquired by Google X
Boston Dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I felt the same and that is very scary, I mean it.
Not the "kill us all" part, just the fact that we felt bad for the robot.
A robot has no feelings, it's programmed to do a job. You toying with it and moving shit around is just extra info to process for him.
The fact that they made it look "human" is what triggers that feeling of empathy.

Isaac Asimov would be freaking out right now. :2 cents:

hey, right on, appreciated. i had figured it must have been acquired by g00g but when i goolgled it prior to asking, the company description that came up shows it as not being owned by a parent company.

:thumbsup

but yeah, it's weird to watch those guys kick them and stuff. was reading another article about Melvin, a new computer algorithm that thinks about quantum physics without a human bias.

"The algorithm is dubbed "Melvin", and the team believes that it might be able to explore hitherto unknown properties and behaviours of quantum systems. In doing so, Melvin would take the complexity of quantum experiments to a level beyond the imaginations of human designers.

These experiments include those with the particular goal of achieving quantum entanglement between many particles. Experimental methods for achieving entanglement of two or a very few particles are well-known. But entanglement is so counter-intuitive that it can be very difficult to see how to combine the known experimental "building blocks" to attain a more complicated state, such as "high-dimensional" entanglement between many of the particles' degrees of freedom.

Melvin works that out unencumbered by human preconceptions.

The algorithm is supplied with a set of standard experimental components that it can combine and reshuffle to achieve the desired goal. These elements consist of devices for manipulating the trajectories and quantum properties of photons. These include beam splitters, which can send a photon in two possible directions, thereby putting it into a superposition of two quantum states."

Computer program dreams up new quantum experiments - physicsworld.com

imagine robots with similar cognitive structures

That is option with next update (version 2.6)

Parent company: X

Click on the X, it brings to

X (company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

X, previously Google X (styled Google^[x]), is a semi-secret research and development facility created by Google.

Reads: skynet

So refreshing and benevolent of them to show us the Robots of today ...From the 30 or 40 years ago archives :2 cents:
Atlas, The Next Generation. From 40 years Ago.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh nice find. i figured x meant none. that's how skynet operates, counter intuitive, i fell for it.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh I kept expecting him to pull out a laser gun and shoot the asshole with the hockey stick

They had a black version of this robot - but all it did was...

Indeed.

I felt a little pissed off when he pushed it over wtf ?! :helpme

Fuckin bully is still a bully......:321GFY

Bad ass tech right there!

I would like to see car driver's face on 0:12

Just caught this! :1orglaugh

Google is taking over the world

Wait till they start making combat droids.

You are right and this is the reason that robots are ultimately going to kill us all. We are giving them all the traits that make us human. Aggression, creed, cruelty, the desire to protect oneself, and ultimately the need to procreate.

They will see that we stand in the way of those objectives and get rid of us much like we do with rats.

I for one can't wait for it to happen!

:thumbsup:1orglaugh

Glad somebody did! :thumbsup

lol there's no wait involved. They've Been here. Done that. The technology they let you see is 40 years old.

Holy shit..... we're doomed

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/24/googl...-labor-vc.html

"Manual labor is going to end in our lifetime, and in this video you can see how close we really are. It's a huge societal issue with jobs, but it's going to be a huge lift in terms of efficiency of companies that nobody expected."

This can only be true in repetitive movements. You'd have to understand how the brain works to get a grasp on how far we are from actual AI.

It will never happen in our lifetimes. We have to be careful to separate "that looks real" from "can it actually think".

People are responding to something that looks more human in its movement and response, but most of what you experience internally when you watch the video an illusion and projection, not reality. I mean people even feel a twinge of "thats wrong" when he hits it with a hockey stick or moves to the box, even though its just plastic and metal. That should tell you a little about how we are projecting human qualities onto the plastic and metal, not making an objective evaluation of whats going it.

Our brains are often called "the most complex organization of matter in the universe" for a reason. Our brains are not computers. Are brains are living tissue which builds and rebuilds, wires and re-wires itself on a second to second basis. This is in part what makes our brains highly adaptive. A computer can only follow an instruction set. Creating increasingly complicated instruction sets won't make it anything close to the capabilities of a brain and the information processing of a brain. Until we can simulate a brain in how it works, a computer cannot create or simulate a brain. Remember, IBM created a computer the size of an upright refrigerator / freezer to play chess and it lost to a 3.3 pound lump of fat and water. That 3.3 pound lump burns less energy than a 60 watt light bulb, where the massive computer and all its processing instantly overheated. That computer was processing over 100,000 moves per second while the 3.3 pound lump of fat and water was thinking about chess, whats for dinner, the press tour afterwards, translating thoughts from Russian to English and back again AND doing so while managing another 10-11,000,000 internal processes at once, firing neurons a rate of many many many quadrillions of times per day.

it is not about ai and the brain and pop evolutionary psychology.

it is about robotics and manual labour. anyone can look at the video and extrapolate about the future of manual labour. in fact most thinking people agree that manual labour could be extinct soon once costs drop.

it is not hard to see.

though like many things the human species will not intervene until the situation is a complete disaster.

Great....very soon we'll be all fucked!

it seemed to me some of the kicks and such where to show that if the robot gets thrown out of it's repetitive pattern, it can figure out how to return to it.

also, ai is written by people. that means intrinsic in the code is some level of humanity. Melvin, the algo i pointed to earlier, is the first of its kind to remove that human thought process, ar at least an attempt to. i guess what i am saying is it's not out of the question that some sort of human condition is programmed into that robot, not on purpose but because humans can only think in human.

Once humankind develops a new, unlimited energy source, then shit's gonna get real.

Running on batteries is a no go. It needs a safe, portable nuclear-fusion kind of energy source.