Nov 25 2008Robot Soldiers Will Kill Your Ass Dead
Soon, robot soldiers will kill you. But, if it makes you feel any better, some people think they'll be acting more ethically than humans.
"My research hypothesis is that intelligent robots can behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans currently can," said Ronald C. Arkin, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, who is designing software for battlefield robots under contract with the Army. "That's the case I make."
He and others say that the technology to make lethal autonomous robots is inexpensive and proliferating, and that the advent of these robots on the battlefield is only a matter of time. That means, they say, it is time for people to start talking about whether this technology is something they want to embrace. "The important thing is not to be blind to it," Dr. Arkin said. Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield in Britain, wrote last year in the journal Innovative Technology for Computer Professionals that "this is not a 'Terminator'-style science fiction but grim reality."
Not 'Terminator'-style science fiction my ass! We're all freaking dead man. And the last thing I need is captain crazy pants there in the picture programming killer robots. I mean, Jesus, look at that wood paneling.
Hit the link below for a nice long article that made me pee my pants a little. Okay, a lot.
A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center [nytimes]
Thanks to Downey and Daniel, both of whom can kill robots in their sleep.
Reader Comments
1. tom - November 25, 2008 7:11 PM
First motherf***er!
2. manalive - November 25, 2008 7:15 PM
2nd!
robots kick ass
3. Daniel - November 25, 2008 7:16 PM
The Geekologie writer reminds me of Bill Paxton (Cpl. Hudson) from Aliens.
"that's it man! game over!"
"I don't know if you've been keeping up with current events but we just got our asses kicked pal!"
4. manalive - November 25, 2008 7:17 PM
.....also wondering if they'll turn gay on each other and have robot sex with each other......like real men.
5. GRAMMARNAZI - November 25, 2008 7:23 PM
Real men can't have robot sex with each other,... because they are "real".
6. QUASIMODEM - November 25, 2008 7:23 PM
I wish I could marry myself. I am such hot shit.
7. blp - November 25, 2008 7:40 PM
@5. But real military men have man sex all the time. If they'll let the government whip them for oil then they have the right psychological profile to let other men whip them for ass. And they do.. whip each other with towels that is before bending over for the sodomy.
8. GRAMMARNAZI - November 25, 2008 7:43 PM
@7
Sounds like you have first-hand knowledge of this.
9. Daisy - November 25, 2008 7:49 PM
TOTAL FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This reminds me of the movie Never Back Down, where Max dresses like Ralph Macchio from The Karate Kid - which was as a shower curtain although he used a cardboard box instead. In the same scene, Baja was dressed like a killer robot from the future that ran on bacon flavored ice cream - a costume that she won on wheel of fortune along with some shamwows and free coupons for Del Taco.
10. Nash - November 25, 2008 7:59 PM
Tenth!?
Didn't anyone watch TERMINATOR?
11. Blopit - November 25, 2008 8:15 PM
aw..... i wanted to see the pic of the robot..... all i got to see was an old stoned guy, wood paneling, and a long white vibrating rod....
did anyone else notice the red box says iRobot? holy crap!! Apple is trying to enslave mankind!!! only if it was microsoft, than we would have some hope...
12. El Basto - November 25, 2008 8:16 PM
Did you notice the "sick" sign in front of that "robot".
Imagine what a sick terminator could you a human, besides helping him ending his life in a horrible, orifice violating cannibalistic death...
13. Daisy - November 25, 2008 8:29 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. YOu can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
That reminds me of Max's science project from the movie NEver Back Down.
14. blp - November 25, 2008 8:29 PM
@8 Kind of, I have CCTV pointed at them at all times to check where the people's taxes are going. It seems there's a black budget just for KY!
15. Dread Pirate Robert - November 25, 2008 8:36 PM
I think if it has gotten to the point where people need robots to fight their battles for them, they seriously need to rethink the concept of war.
16. Thumperchica - November 25, 2008 8:45 PM
We are going to render ourselves completely useless...
17. Foobar - November 25, 2008 8:47 PM
@10 - Terminator was ok, but you should try Never Back Down. The other movie I recommend is Super Troopers.
18. GRAMMARNAZI - November 25, 2008 9:09 PM
"Never Back Down"....."Never Back Down"....that movie sounds familiar. Where have I heard that title before?
19. Lessssss - November 25, 2008 10:54 PM
Shit, man. I totally do not want to be killed dead.
20. GRAMMARNAZI - November 25, 2008 11:36 PM
Well, is there really any other way to be killed besides being "killed dead"?
21. Blopit - November 25, 2008 11:50 PM
@20
yes... heard of 'eaten alive'...noone dies dead well unless their already dead like a zombie or overkilled or uberkilled, than you have a point. Trust me i have experience. But wait if yur killed alive than you are at present dead....hmmm...WTF... well i deem this 'debatable' for now....
22. Davo - November 26, 2008 12:42 AM
I got uber-killed once. It totally sucked.
23. QUASIMODEM - November 26, 2008 3:53 AM
AHAHAHAHA
OH "GRAMMARNAZI", IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE WROTE THAT KNOWING FULL WELL THAT BEING KILLED RESULTS IN DEATH
F***ing aspie.
24. Ginormagantuan - November 26, 2008 9:19 AM
SKEET SKEET NEEUK@@@!!!!!!!!!
sheet knaahhmeen! this ont tyme lyk in da hood n' shit deez wun muhf***ah gotz his shit killeder dan ah muhf***ah. naa'm' saayeen! his seet be all liek "BWADAT!" an' all dem' nukkazz watchen wuz all like, "DAAAAAAAYYYYYUUUUUUUMMMMMM!!!!!!11one THAT NIIKKA GOT HIS SHEET KILLED YO!" knaameen' so what I'm sayin's be, knaah meen! motha f***az is crazy n' shit yo, B gettin they shit killed n' shit by-a-nuhf***a up in heeuh! I ain' lyyyyin' none neither, shit be for shizzle my drizzle!!!!! FAH SHO FA SHO!!!!! DA HEART DA HEART! yo' shit gon' ket killed! TWICE! CUZ THAT BE HOW WE's DOING THAT SHIT UP IN THA HOOD KNAMEEN, you gotta keep your shit gangsta mos def fo sho, ya betta belleee-dat!
WE GOTTA BLACK PRESIDENT WUT NIGGA WUT!
25. Eatshitanddie - November 26, 2008 9:43 AM
@24
Are the the ghost of Herbert Kornfield?
26. Guy - November 26, 2008 10:25 AM
What's up with crappy ads now GW?
27. Gizmoduck - November 26, 2008 10:30 AM
INPUT.
NEED INPUT!
NO DISASSEMBLE!
ahhh...i crack myself up
28. Thumperchica - November 26, 2008 10:42 AM
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
Tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
Tie me kangaroo down.
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide, when I'm dead.
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred,
Tan me hide when I'm dead.
ALL TOGETHER NOW!
29. Hannukah Montana - November 26, 2008 11:06 AM
@24 Word son!
Black President is gangsta as shit! Ya heard?
FOR ALL MY PEOPLE IN THE STRUGGLE! GOD HASN'T FORGOTTEN YOU!
WIPE YA TEARS FOR WE SHALL STAND AS ONE NATION UNDER BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, 44TH PRESIDENT OF AMERICA!
THE DREAM HAS BEEN REALIZED! THE FUTURE IS NOW!
WE WILL PREVAIL!
30. Gizmoduck - November 26, 2008 11:09 AM
i'm a pepper
31. Jazzman - November 26, 2008 3:23 PM
24. Ginormagantuan needs to write and be the new voice for Riley Freeman on Boondocks... that's all i heard when i was reading your post!!! knaameen??? knaameen??? You feel'n me son!!!!
32. Jazzman - November 26, 2008 3:23 PM
24. Ginormagantuan needs to write and be the new voice for Riley Freeman on Boondocks... that's all i heard when i was reading your post!!! knaameen??? knaameen??? You feel'n me son!!!!
33. Psychosync - December 17, 2008 9:39 AM
iRobot, now why does that sound familiar? I'm pretty sure it was an Asimov novel.. Oh Yeah! We're all going to f***ing die!!!!!
34. marrilliondillion - December 20, 2008 12:41 AM
he looks like a psychopath. a psychopath who enjoys constructing killer robots. even the evil computers that secretly rule the world are a little nervous of this guy.