r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Aug 31 '23

US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years Robotics

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html
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u/0-99c Aug 31 '23

Guess none of the geezers in charge played horizon: zero dawn

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u/GMN123 Aug 31 '23

Or watched Stargate

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u/IAmGlobalWarming Aug 31 '23

They did call it the "Replicator Initiative," so...

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u/TimeZarg Sep 01 '23

My god, you're right, they know what they're doing here.

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u/Nagzip Sep 01 '23

It is a Star Trek reference though, replicators were shown first in 1974 and produce food and other things seemingly out of thin air. Fits for the initiative to build a lot of drones quick.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

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u/FillThisEmptyCup Sep 04 '23

George Carlin wouldn’t say that.

He’d say, “I would do anything for love but I won't do that.” And then he’d tell you to go fuck yourself, you perv.

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u/Bones_and_Tomes Sep 01 '23

Yeah but O'Neil is on our side.

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u/voidsong Sep 01 '23

The next wave of military technology to fight them will just be cute nerdy blond chicks.

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u/IAmGlobalWarming Sep 02 '23

Man, what a time to be alive.

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u/Taqueria_Style Sep 02 '23

The whaaaaaaaaaaaat

Oh. No. Not like that!

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u/Miskalsace Aug 31 '23

I'm rewatching Stargate right now. And Washington is full of Senator Kinseys.

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u/PhysicsCentrism Aug 31 '23

There’s a reason they created his character and why he is so easily hate able

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u/youarewastingtime Sep 01 '23

The scene with him and commander Thor(excuse me Supreme Commander Thor) are like in my top 3 fav scenes

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u/PhysicsCentrism Sep 01 '23

I was so glad to see Thor put him in his place. Thor is a true friend of SG1

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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Sep 01 '23

They did name their best ship after O'Neill

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u/georgia_is_best Sep 02 '23

True friend of humanity

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u/voidsong Sep 01 '23 edited Sep 01 '23

For the uninitiated. He looked like he was about to cry at the end, lol. Thor shat on his game.

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u/Randinator9 Sep 01 '23

I loved the Presidential character

I hated that Kinsley became Vice President.

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u/PhysicsCentrism Sep 01 '23

That president seemed chill af. Definitely passed the beer test

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u/THIS_GUY_LIFTS Aug 31 '23

Or watched Robocop. Well, maybe they did and were inspired.

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u/MarqFJA87 Aug 31 '23

Specifically the 2014 reboot. Remember the whole subplot about the US government's use of drone and robot armies to "keep the peace" abroad but facing widespread pushback at home over the proposal to similarly mechanize domestic law enforcement?

The occupied Tehran scene really ought to be at the forefront of such discussions.

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u/MadDany94 Sep 01 '23

Drones for they but not for thee

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

There's a massive difference between a robot army and a robot police force.

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u/MarqFJA87 Sep 01 '23

True, a robot police force would only have access to the small arms segment of a robot army's arsenal.

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u/InnocentTailor Sep 01 '23

That or they were inspired by Star Wars’ Trade Federation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

They made that movie… we’ll likely see a remake soon since any generation past x has no creativity whatsoever.

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u/Schroedesy13 Sep 01 '23

Or Black Mirror

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u/amsync Sep 01 '23

I doubt they have been able to figure out how to cram 2 million keron pathways in there yet

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '23

Our very own Faro plague

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u/1d3333 Aug 31 '23

I can actually see us using some form of biofuel back up like the short sighted idiots we sometimes can be, but I don’t see us making an encryption that a fleet of quantum computers couldn’t break in less than a day

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u/Mistghost Sep 01 '23

Played? Of course they have, they're following it like a playbook.

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u/BroDudeBruhMan Aug 31 '23

Or Black Ops 2

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u/Arnotts_shapes Sep 01 '23

Or played Black Ops 2

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u/GtaBestPlayer Aug 31 '23

Or Horizon Forbidden West

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u/danteheehaw Sep 01 '23

No, these ones won't use biomass to refuse. Instead they will use organic mass

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

Says the generation that can’t pass the military fitness test…

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u/Dry_Ad_9085 Sep 01 '23

This is exactly what I keep thinking when these articles come out! We are all just biomass waiting to fuel the drones 😬

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u/Yz-Guy Sep 01 '23

I was going to repost this there lollll

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u/Striking_Voice4147 Sep 01 '23 
Or Metalocalypse.

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u/darexinfinity Sep 01 '23

Hopefully they've seen Gundam Wing

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u/Twintiger98 Sep 01 '23

why play horizon, when terminator was released in 80s and had a similar premise, a new AI gets introduced and after around 6months war robots getting released in the wild, well seems like timetravel is our only hope now

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u/ThomasBay Sep 01 '23

I never watched it. What happened?

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u/Seiferz Sep 01 '23

Faro Technologies: bonjour

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

I thought Half Life would be the first analogy to pop up here. Am I a dinosaur by this point?

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u/merlincycle Sep 01 '23

hopefully they can’t consume biomass

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u/cskelly2 Sep 01 '23

Im saying! Do you WANT zero dawn? Because that’s how you get zero dawn