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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

Why we do need robots.Humans will be more lazy and of course ther can have sex

Lolll this is awesome.they are few steps ahead

All these old geezers mentioning skynet and not one mention of the MATRIX.

This robot torture is the first step towards the matrix becoming real.

robot have a little drunk gait :1orglaugh

...or that robot is standing in front of you with a gun. If they get robots to take the place of humans, the first place they will be used is on the battlefield and as police...

I think there are some things to define
"what is artificial intelligence"... we confuse human capabilities for programmable capabilities. As people, we can't even agree on what "intelligence" is.

"human-like"/"human condition" - what does that mean? What i would say was i was a little interested in my own twinge of "thats wrong" when he was toying with the robot. I was interested because I knew with 100% certainty that i was projecting human like traits onto a piece of metal and plastic. First and foremost, that is what we do. We make it "appear human" in simple ways and it becomes perceived as human-like.

Think about this for a moment. They are still playing with walking and gate and balance. In many animals, this information is so rudimentary (relative to total capability), its not even processed in the brain. For example, in cats, you can sever the spinal cord and it can still trot on a treadmill because all the brains instructions for gate are stored in the spinal cord itself.

However, when it comes to anything remotely resembling human capabilities (specifically that of the brain), we won't see that in our lifetime. I wouldn't begin to know how to describe how insanely complex we are and our brains our. Everything that you are as a person is changing from moment to moment. Every experience you have from moment to moment, is changing your brain. A single event, even one that lasts less than a second (someone blowing their head off in front of you for example) can radically change who you are and subsequently who you will become over time.

So a robot can walk, fall over, stand up. Since we've been fucking with this for decades - its pretty clear how complex this is to program.

what about the millions of things the robot can't do which our brains do effortlessly and seamlessly and most importantly, instantaneously?

Take two simple things that make us human.

1) Imagination.

Can it predict the future? Can it easily imagine countless different future outcomes? Can it plan forward, modify plans based on new information and then evaluate the success or failure of a plan and come up with a better plan?

Can it predict countless future outcomes, plan for the most likely, experience the outcome and "learn" from that error so that success can be replicated or failure avoided? If we have struggled for many decades to program walking and balance and righting itself, how many more decades to get to this point?

2) Meaning.

One of the many things which separates us from our closest relatives and many members of this forum is "meaning". Meaning is huge us. Does the color black have meaning? Does the color white have meaning? Does Arabic letters have meaning? Does a rectangle have meaning? What about when you combine them into an ISIS flag or headband,... does the meaning change? Think about what everything around you "means"... literally everything around you has meaning from the colors of leaves to a banks sign to a gang banger standing on the corner vs the guy just walking by him... and think about how you use all of that information around you, quite effortlessly to make very advanced decisions as you navigate the world. How is that programmable?

What about identifying intentionality and empathy?

The robot couldn't decide if the person was good or bad. He couldn't identify the many facial cues, body language, heart rate/breathing and so on to make a determination as to whether this person is either helpful or likely not. Imagine the complex programming that would represent. It couldn't learn that the person was moving the box and come up with an advanced plan to stop him or wait. It could only keep attempting to execute the program "pick up box". It couldn't identify the intentions of the user (something a newborn CAN do), it couldn't identify the person as helpful or harmful (something a newborn CAN do), it couldn't identify the hockey stick as a possible weapon or imagine it being used to push it over, in fact, it couldn't even understand it was being pushed over and correct itself or even break its fall as those instruction sets didn't exist... it could only wait until it hit the ground, recognize its been tipped over and then execute the program "attempt to right yourself"

Personally, i would say there is nothing "human" about the robot other than the illusion we see and flawed assumptions our brains make. I don't think there will be anything "intelligent" about robots in our lifetimes relative to what the human brain is capable of, even in an infant.

You already live in a "MATRIX" created by your own brain. Much of your daily experience and life in general is nothing more than a convincing illusion. Sounds aren't real. Smells aren't real. Colors aren't real. Much of your memories and sense of who you are, isn't real. The list goes on and one and on.

Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

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