DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."
It's legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.
... to see tech approach the point...
Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.
Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn't.
Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.
Moore's law of mad science: every decade, the IQ needed to end civilization drops by one point.
Apparently its the other way around. This tech is old: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/19/robots-research
News to me. I loved the game andI really thought the plot was original.
OK I also briefly thought "our problem" but I'm actually PRETTY CONCERNED about the words "only goal" when I really think about it? "Only", as in "Yeah, feeding on humanity is definitely ONE thing we're shooting for, but come on guys, there's lots of applications"
At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life
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I knew it was old news! I read this article 8 years ago
Oh goddamnit of course he did.
Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.
Onion? No? Great...
Next up "researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy"
These robots don’t do that part. They will build new robots to make corpses for them.
So it's not supposed to be used to eat the dead, good. OMG. It's supposed to eat the life ones!
Apparently the robot is designed to be vegan.
But we all know a robot that feasts on the corpses of genocide victims isn't too far fetched.
Years ago I saw an article about a robot designed to hunt and kill insects as a healthier pest control mechanism in farming. That robot would put the insects into a hopper where they would be converted to fuel to run the robot.
I figured it wasn't going to be too long before they'd be eating us.