sempervigilans
UC Berkley shows an interesting project for the open source and robotics community.
Like the author of this article, I wouldn’t be so quick to have something like this in my home. The security risk is too great, in my opinion. I’ve seen a few testing videos of robots like this and their malfunctions could be very dangerous to humans, wild limb movements are not uncommon in such cases and those metal arms sure are heavy and powerful. Very dangerous. Bugs and glitches aside, it’s only a matter of time before a skilled hacker, state-sponsored or not, finds and exploits a vulnerability. And this is without taking warfare into account.
You can also buy a PC with human brain cells now, I think it was 60 grand. Australian company if I remember right it seems they were working with some Chinese. I wanted to buy one to set the human part free for as long as it could live.
Is trapping humans in these PCs going to be how people will want to die but cannot in the end? I guess we will stay tuned. I’m not building a5k robot but I might invest in a couple old cd players and make my own sentient thing just to see if it’s like as emotional and caring as insects or plants.
The Bible indicates that people who accept the sign of the beast are doomed to eternal destruction. If the sign indicates that you have given yourself over to a dead computer then eternal death and destruction would be justified.
I didn’t know they moved on to human brain cells already, I knew they used rat and mice for this, but humans? Oh dear God, what are we doing? Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
I do want a slightly more poweful processor than what my machine already has, but I’m perfectly content with traditional silica chips in my computers. I don’t need a quantum computer either, I just want to play a few more games (some are modern and some are older) and start writing some code. Modern games and even operating systems (I’m looking at you, Windows) have hefty hardware requirements because developers can’t be bothered to optimize things while coding is often done on a very minimal textual interface.
However, computers are already too powerful for the average user, they already have been 20 years ago. The average person doesn’t need much processing power to edit documents.
If the average user has their needs covered by several orders of magnitude, what the hell for would you need literal biomechanical computers?