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Test19s OP t1_iy0xhrd wrote

> The robots can assist in the construction of buildings, vehicles, and even grow into larger robots.

Transformers shit IRL is a huge theme of the '20s imo.

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ghostwhat t1_iy0xz5j wrote

Constructobots. Assemble!

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Heres_your_sign t1_iy0zrye wrote

Yes, the carbon-based life forms will eventually be subjugated to supply the robots with their raw materials...

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Pawn1990 t1_iy0zuns wrote

We are Borg. You will be assimilated

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jloflin t1_iy106t7 wrote

Have they not seen Terminator?

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takingastep t1_iy10bta wrote

> all the AI research going on these days too

Do y'all want the Matrix? 'Cause this is how you get the Matrix.

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Odysseyan t1_iy10lfu wrote

Didn't know that Horizon Zero Dawn was intended to be a documentary

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Difficult-Speech-270 t1_iy11xt0 wrote

Ya, this doesn’t sound like a good idea. This is up there with programming and training robots to shoot guns. I’m getting some disturbing Judgement Day vibes right now and the machines becoming self aware.

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grumpkot t1_iy12cqk wrote

Replicators are coming

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Laseron63 t1_iy12ef2 wrote

They’re poking the bear. Don’t poke the bear.

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Mijam7 t1_iy13qs1 wrote

What could possibly go wrong?

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srone t1_iy1519b wrote

I thought MIT had smart people... this don't sound so smart to me.

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DelapidatedSagebrush t1_iy15jr7 wrote

Let’s goooooo! Welcome to the end ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a wild ride!

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fredfow3 t1_iy15pe0 wrote

I, for one, will welcome our new robot overlords!

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VirtualTools_ t1_iy16t4l wrote

Hey Gordon, real good job making the self replicating robots to cause a grey goo apocalypse. I can see your MIT education really pays for itself

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kaazir t1_iy19mvh wrote

Hey look it's "Horizon Zero Dawn"

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ElDuderino4ever t1_iy1cqit wrote

No. NOOOOO!!!! This will not end well. Do you want Skynet? This is how you get Skynet.

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KHaskins77 t1_iy1cyru wrote

Ted Faro has entered the chat

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whydoihaveto12 t1_iy1dls1 wrote

Can... Can we please not? Every engineering course needs to include one book of sci-fi about how what you're learning went wrong and ruined society.

I say this as an engineer.

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RainbowBier t1_iy1f0xk wrote

Oh man made horror again. Great

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Zeduca t1_iy1h6bl wrote

Oops. My worse nightmare just started. Self building robot. Next, they will design new ones, and who knows what evil ideas they’ll have, and realize. An army of these to destroy us ?

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LuvLifts t1_iy1i3sw wrote

And so it begins!! Let’s Do This!

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ISAMU13 t1_iy1klyh wrote

The first order of business is to get them to make paperclips. /s

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1fifty1 t1_iy1m05i wrote

Can I send a dvd of terminator to these researchers ?

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Neracca t1_iy1nr90 wrote

Cool! I didn't have Replicators on my apocalypse bingo card.

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RaydnJames t1_iy1ot2e wrote

Replying to chadsimpkins (#717,955)

How do we not learn from our own media that this shit is a bad idea? Oh sure, it starts out in a lab or as a robots toy, but it ends up blowing up the planet or becoming a galactic scourge

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Lu_Duizhang t1_iy1p5kk wrote

We’re about to get Jurassic Parked, although instead of dinosaurs, it’ll be a grey goo

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EH_Operator t1_iy1uhyd wrote

Do you want everything to be paperclips? Cause that’s how you goooooooooooooooooo

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trustifarian t1_iy1xs3i wrote

“MIT engineers engineer the end of all mankind.”

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aceops23 t1_iy1yiwr wrote

I’ve seen this movie before… doesn’t end well for mankind…

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JLP_101 t1_iy1yolm wrote

Wasn't that the main plot of Horizon Zero Dawn.

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bdboar1 t1_iy20347 wrote

It’s literally just them playing Minecraft

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Zaanix t1_iy22u8t wrote

...If it's robots that can combine smaller, modular robots to form larger ones, then that's fine. Looking at the photo however, I'm not inclined to believe that they can automatically form raw materials into new components and then assemble new units themselves.

Self replicating robots would likely come in one of two forms; micromachines made of simple materials-based mechanisms (toeing the line between machine and...well, a self organizing material, thus being a more advanced form of a chemical reaction), and large scale, fully automated refineries, steel mills, machine shops, circuitry production, and final assembly. Oh not to mention programming.

I'm sure there's work going towards those things, if not directly then by proxy components will be formed over time. Is this something people should be scared about? Probably not. Could it be heinously misused? Definitely. Will it? Someone probably will try, and my cynicism tells me it'd be for profit or oppression. What could we do to prevent problems from arising in the future? Focus on scientific literacy and a conscious presence in STEM by the general populace so misuse can be identified and dealt with before festering.

Also everyone's concerned about Terminator, the Matrix, and Horizon Zero Dawn but nobody is concerned about the Legion from 86. Just me?

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MythOfLight t1_iy24e0e wrote

oh no no no no no i’ve played this game before, we are not doing that

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4runninglife t1_iy283x9 wrote

This is awesome for building colonies on other planets.

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4runninglife t1_iy28kin wrote

Replying to WhizBangPissPiece (#723,452)

I think our self driving vehicles are fine for what they are, but trying to get them to understand complex social agreements with how we operate in traffic and urban areas will always be difficult. But to use them for baron land with really no restrictions other then navigating the terrain, is already achieved.

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RSCyka t1_iy29yo1 wrote

Hello, NS-5’s

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phoenix1984 t1_iy2fxtn wrote

Am I the only one who thought of nano bots from Big Hero 6?

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addamee t1_iy2pvvz wrote

Annnnd it begins

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djordi t1_iy2qaf8 wrote

"IT'S HAPPENING"

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lycheedorito t1_iy2ylb0 wrote

I've been wondering when I'd start seeing this become a reality

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tango_41 t1_iy33y16 wrote

For such smart dudes, these engineers sure are dumb as fuck. Do you want to engineer the end of the human race? Because I’m pretty sure this is how you engineer the end of the human race.

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Zwets t1_iy38zz0 wrote

Replying to derpderderpderp (#724,021)

First of all, that's a spoiler unless you get 70% through the first game.

And to be fair, the technology existed in Horizon for years before a billionaire techbro got involved in weaponizing it and the world ended.

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smurfalidocious t1_iy3gdpu wrote

It's fine, we've already set ourselves on the path to stopping the distribution of nanoscale assemblers; climate change will raise temperatures too high for them to function.

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StunningAd6745 t1_iy3wq48 wrote

Because WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG HERE?!?!?!

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dgm42 t1_iy47id5 wrote

Not a new idea. I once read an old (published before WWII) science fiction book where the enemy alien was a machine made up of thousands on small cubes that could join up to produce whatever was required for the moment.

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sixo8zex t1_iy4ecwc wrote

1 step closer to grey goo. Nice….

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TrollinFoDollas t1_iy4f6kj wrote

Do you want grey goo? Because that's how you get grey goo.

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tiagoln t1_iy4qp4h wrote

It reminds me of the builders from Blame!

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PerryNeeum t1_iy4zs0n wrote

Anybody started on the Zero Dawn protocols?

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x5736gh t1_iy519b5 wrote

Saban did this in the early 90s

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littleMAS t1_iy5igme wrote

Someone much wiser than I once said, "Machines will become a problem when they begin reproducing."

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Captain_N1 t1_iy6wmov wrote

Replying to littleday (#718,431)

Yep, The Replicators,they put a hurting on the Asgard. and the Asurans.. with their own city ships and ZPM manufacturing..... That is until they got trolled By FRAN.... But not before Todd stole some ZPMS....

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