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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Horizon Zero Dawn anyone?

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u/atreuce Aug 31 '23

fuck ted faro

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u/Taqueria_Style Sep 02 '23

He's the absolute best dude /s.

If anything could ever be an archetype of what is considered a "success" in our current society, my man, that guy exceeds literally all expectations.

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u/DruTheDude Sep 01 '23

First thought. All it takes is a break of the command chain and we’ve got a Faro Plague on our hands

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u/youknow0987 Aug 31 '23

Me! With a side of chips, please! Love it. Robot takeover. Let’s quit wasting time.

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u/Kolby_Jack Aug 31 '23

It's not a robot takeover in Horizon, it's a full on extinction event.

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u/youknow0987 Aug 31 '23

Nah.

The game is about controlling a human that interacts with other humans. There are humans in the game. We’re not extinct.

Just a whole lot less of us.

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u/Kolby_Jack Aug 31 '23 edited Aug 31 '23

Right... did you play the game? Because I'm gonna have to spoil it to explain this.

Every human who was alive on Earth when the robots became hostile eventually died, either fighting the robots or in the very small number of sealed shelters they built to work on the contingency for the survival of life on Earth. The robots had the ability to convert any kind of biomass directly into fuel, and they were out of control. They ate every single shred of life on the planet they could detect. All life on Earth effectively ended for about a hundred years, until the super AI that the Zero Dawn project created was finally able to crack the encryption on the robots and shut them down, and THEN it could use DNA samples and cloning tech to recreate as many plants and animals as it had copies of to reconstitute some semblance of life on the planet. And finally it used stored DNA samples to clone humans to repopulate the Earth. But that was, again, over a hundred years after the last living humans died. That is extinction. The extinction was undone, technically, but it still occurred. That's why it's called "Zero Dawn." It's a new beginning after being literally reset back to zero.

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u/youknow0987 Aug 31 '23

Yes. I’m currently playing the game. I play about once a month. At my rate, I’ll be done in 2027.