…I didn’t actually expect that I would be typing those words when I woke up this morning. And yet, here we are.
I mean, ATLAS doesn’t look half bad. I’m just bemused, that’s all.
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Please do not beat the nice robot with a hockey stick, Hu-man.
Sure, all demos are fake, but: this Atlas one from Boston Dynamics is pretty good stuff.
And I understand why all the business with the sticks and the pushing. It’s actually bragging: Hey, look, our robot can handle a few trivial tasks that the rest of you have spent years trying to work out for yourselves. But in some weird sort of way it just identifies as not-quite-nice. I mean, I know: that robot is neither ‘alive’ or ‘aware’ in any meaningful sense of the term. But you see the four limbs and a body and a head in an upright position, and the mental reflexes kick in…