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[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 229 points 5 months ago (3 children)

DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Obligatory "fuck Ted Faro"

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... to see tech approach the point...

Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn't.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn't care.

Unless.

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My god, what a cunt.

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well they are still missing the self replicating part... But you know, give it some time.

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[–] Someonelemmy@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 5 months ago

Apparently its the other way around. This tech is old: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/19/robots-research

News to me. I loved the game andI really thought the plot was original.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 91 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love how the quote cuts off right before "only goal".

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I assumed it was "our problem"

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

OK I also briefly thought "our problem" but I'm actually PRETTY CONCERNED about the words "only goal" when I really think about it? "Only", as in "Yeah, feeding on humanity is definitely ONE thing we're shooting for, but come on guys, there's lots of applications"

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 70 points 5 months ago

Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.

[–] Gakomi@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Has no one played Horizon Zero Dawn?

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I guess we are in that timeline. Tbh, so many things make a lot of sense now.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago

Someone put bullets in Ted faro. Literally screwed humanity as a whole...twice.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish we were in the dino robots timeline

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 46 points 5 months ago
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Breaking: Company creates Torment Nexus

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago
[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Even older than that

[–] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Oh goddamnit of course he did.

Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Uhh I played this game. It's literally the plot of ::: spoiler Title Spoiled game :::

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Your spoiler tag isn't working.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I can't get any of them to work. Do you know what Lemmy uses?

[–] MelodiousFunk 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)
Preview Texthidden content

Preview Texthidden content

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The format is ::: spoiler and a title on the same line.

Content on new lines, then ::: to end it.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've tried every variation and it's not working. This is definitely the most complicated spoiler tag system I've seen.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They look like thisIt's an expandable full-width deal. The spoiler start tag has to be on its own line, and the same goes for the ending three commas.

MelodiousFunk has replied with a cleartext example.

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[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

This one works on my client, while normal ones don't

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

Your spoiler tag doesn't seem to be working on beehaw at least BTW

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….

[–] Gakomi@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 11 points 5 months ago

Or paperclips!

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Onion? No? Great...

Next up "researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy"

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I'm gonna be eaten by a robot I'd much rather be dead first.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

These robots don’t do that part. They will build new robots to make corpses for them.

[–] McWizard@feddit.de 14 points 5 months ago

So it's not supposed to be used to eat the dead, good. OMG. It's supposed to eat the life ones!

[–] Shayeta@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago

Finally! A productive solution to mass graves!

[–] trslim@pawb.social 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ghoscht@feddit.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Sweet... early stages of the Faro plague

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Years ago I saw an article about a robot designed to hunt and kill insects as a healthier pest control mechanism in farming. That robot would put the insects into a hopper where they would be converted to fuel to run the robot.

I figured it wasn't going to be too long before they'd be eating us.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

What have I told you? People are a renewable resource!

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