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Real life Terminators!

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  • 20-11-2012 3:25pm
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    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭


    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/warning-over-armies-developing--terminator--style-killer-robots-19112012.html
    Human Rights Watch has issued a warning that ‘Terminator’-style killer robots could be developed in decades - and that several governments are working on the technology.

    The U.S government in particular has admitted to working towards robotic weapons systems with ‘total autonomy’.

    The Human Rights Watch calls on policy-makers to outlaw ‘fully autonomous weapons’ - robots that can decide to kill.

    It says such weapons could be feasible “in decades”.

    Cool! :cool:

    Maybe robocops to follow! :D


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    #2
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    They will want your Boots your Clothes your Motorcycle and your Sunglasses :cool:

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    Casillas
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Casillas


    I'd hope they're not easy to hack ;)


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    #4
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    So now 'Terminator' robots take precedence over hoverboards, hang your craniums in shame scientists!


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    joydivision
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    this is just merica trying to scARE russia into leaving isreal do what it wants


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    #6
    Porkchop McGee
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Porkchop McGee


    The future used to be cool, now it's just going to be nothing but hassle from The Man and his robot. I wish I died in the 50s, back when robots knew their place.


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    Gurgle
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    It says such weapons could be feasible “in decades”.
    I'd have to argue on purely technical grounds: Such weapons would be feasible in months!


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    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I'm overjoyed to live in a time when I could potentially be riding a souped-up Cadillac with a shotgun fighting the Machine Rebellion. I'm even happier it didn't take place in the f*cking 90s. I can't be having with all that "hasta la vista baby" bollocks at all.


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    #9
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,846 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Deadly!


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    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Gurgle wrote: »
    I'd have to argue on purely technical grounds: Such weapons would be feasible in months!

    you're probably right...
    One in three U.S. war places is now a drone, and the U.S. has said that it aims for its forces to be 30% robotic by 2020.
    Automatic death: Samsung's machine gun sentry robot, which is already in use in South Korea, can spot unusual activity, challenge intruders and, when authorised by a human controller, open fire

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2235680/Rise-Machines-Autonomous-killer-robots-developed-20-years.html#ixzz2CmCvipyV


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    gobnaitolunacy
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    One in three U.S. war planes is now a drone, and the U.S. has said that it aims for its forces to be 30% robotic by 2020.

    A whole battalion of robots, unable to hit a barn door, judging by their drone attacks.


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    #12
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    "Do you want to play a game?".


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    #13
    franktheplank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    Bet the Irish ones get a special 'robot allowance' in their salaries.


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    franktheplank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    The Irish Robocops will have to be programmed especially to say 'Veh - hee - kal'.


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    #15
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    They are among us already, Data is now the grandfather.


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    Cungi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭Cungi


    As long as they still require human operators to re-arm and re-fuel them, we're fine

    If that can be done by machines, then humans are bollixed.


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    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Well on the plus side you can't be done for war crimes if you massacre the ones you capture.

    A "junkyard" doesn't have the same sinister connotations as a "mass grave"


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    GeorgeClooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭GeorgeClooney


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    They will want your Boots your Clothes your Motorcycle and your Sunglasses :cool:

    They obviously took away all of your common nouns because you appear to be only left with proper nouns.


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    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    asherbassad wrote: »
    Well on the plus side you can't be done for war crimes if you massacre the ones you capture.

    A "junkyard" doesn't have the same sinister connotations as a "mass grave"

    You might get sued if you interfere with one. Corporations won't like anyone trying to modify or duplicate the iKiller or the Andronator or whatever the hell.


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    #20
    opinion guy
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    Battlestar Galactica here we come.

    Frack.


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    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Battlestar Galactica here we come.

    Frack.

    Riiiiight..... frack...

    http://img.portwallpaper.com/imgcel/Tricia_Helfer/Tricia-Helfer-2.JPG


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    shedweller
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    Shryke wrote: »

    You might get sued if you interfere with one. Corporations won't like anyone trying to modify or duplicate the iKiller or the Andronator or whatever the hell.
    Dibs on the iKiller patent!


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    shedweller
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    Cungi wrote: »
    As long as they still require human operators to re-arm and re-fuel them, we're fine

    If that can be done by machines, then humans are bollixed.
    All easily done with current tech. Its just laws that are stopping it.


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    Pottler
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    Considering not one complex machine currently made can be ignored for more than a few hours without going wrong in some way without human input/repair, I'd say we're safe enough. I'd reckon more advanced drones with some nerd at a control station will be more close to reality. I may be wrong in which case I will buy an old station wagon and flee westwards - no way are those robots getting through the maze that is Mayo.


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    #25
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    davet82 wrote: »
    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/warning-over-armies-developing--terminator--style-killer-robots-19112012.html
    Human Rights Watch has issued a warning that ‘Terminator’-style killer robots could be developed in decades
    http://xkcd.com/652/


    We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.


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    #26
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    Now we're going to have to send them back in time to prevent themselves being invented!

    Fucking military forcing us to act out paradoxes!


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    #27
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Pottler wrote: »
    Considering not one complex machine currently made can be ignored for more than a few hours without going wrong in some way without human input/repair, I'd say we're safe enough.

    Tell that to the Connor family :D


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    #28
    Capt'n Midnight
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    If anyone is interested in building one you can download the code to program it with here http://nengo.ca/


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    #29
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Killer Robots......much debate ensues.....conclusion: Man is the real monster.


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