Real life Terminators!

davet82

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!

MonkieSocks

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

Casillas

I'd hope they're not easy to hack

Duckworth_Luas

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

joydivision

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

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.

Gurgle

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!

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.

Rothko

Deadly!

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

gobnaitolunacy

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.

steddyeddy

"Do you want to play a game?".

franktheplank

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

franktheplank

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

3ndahalfof6

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

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.

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"

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.

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.

opinion guy

Battlestar Galactica here we come.

Frack.

Shryke

opinion guy wrote: »

Battlestar Galactica here we come.

Frack.

Riiiiight..... frack...

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

shedweller

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!

shedweller

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.

Pottler

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.

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.

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!

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

Capt'n Midnight

If anyone is interested in building one you can download the code to program it with here http://nengo.ca/

Mr Freeze

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