• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    If the robot is tough enough for production they should have no fear of stripping the clothes off with a box knife. The whole scene was still pretty impressive, especially compared to last week’s Russia bot! 🤦🏻‍♂️

    But still, were I heading this project, I’d insist on toughness at this point in development. (Talking out my ass, looking to the end game, no idea where they’re at ATM.)

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    In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.

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    What clickbait. Apparently any vaguely capable humanoid robot is a “straight-up Terminator”?

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        So far. Since Terminators are capable humanoid robots and the goal is to make capable humanoid robots each improvement is going to look more like a Terminator. And also like every other capable humanoid robot from other sci-fi as well, good bad or neutral.

        The only reason to leap to “OMG it’s a Terminator!” Is to bait the clicks.

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          It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.

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    I’m not saying this because she’s a billionaire, and this is really nothing against her, her looks, or her music, but I never found Taylor Swift to be, like, sexy. She’s quite beautiful and very talented but she’s just not who comes to mind when I think of slinky sexiness.

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      I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. My wife is like that. She won’t win any beauty pageants, but she is as attractive as it’s possible to be for her. It’s fucking hard work and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.

      Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”

      But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.

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    “We’ve now constructed the doomsday machine from the popular novel ‘Don’t build the doomsday machine’”

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      Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.

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      Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.

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        to be fair to the addition of bazongas, those characters are more ‘humans in cockroach costumes’ than ‘sentient cockroaches.’

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      I’d say “found the bot”, but even bots are familiar with why boobs appeal to human sensibilities.

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    The result is nice and cool. It is the level of modern journalism that is disturbing.

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      Seriously. How many ways are there to make an humanoid robot out of stainless steel and aluminium?

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      I worry about it. Every year I see more articles with sloppy mistakes that could be caught by any half-drunk editor phoning his job in. Sites springing up publishing 90% slop clearly so someone can keep writing. Not to mention the risks to journalism in a country where the president threatens any group whose speech he doesn’t like.

      As (i think) Parenti said, now is the time of monsters. Cool robot though. That, genuinely, is crazy impressive.

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        I mean in this instance, if you look at the thumbnail of the author and then follow his link, he looks not a day over 16.

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          Im middle-aged, anyone under 30 looks like a baby to me 😅 babies can be journalists as long as they’ve got ethics and a good editor

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    “We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift.”

    What?

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    What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?

    The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?

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      To do what?

      Chores and other stuff we don’t want to/can’t do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many old encyclopedias with “future tech” chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.

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        Yes, Daleks are not robots, they’re squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.