This woman walking her dog in the woods stumbled across an Atlas humanoid robot being taken for a walk and it be honest it’s kind of creepy but not so much that it begs any real thought about the robot apocalypse. At this point in history the focus on robotics seems to be making them as efficient as we see them in the movies, though it seems to be going very, very slow. Maybe that’s a good thing though. Hopefully by the time that robots are up and moving around on their own and making their own decisions the lot of our generation will be gone and our kids will have figured out just how to deal with them if any problems arise. I kind of doubt that but still, the idea of entirely autonomous robots is still hard to wrap my head around.
The mere fact that human beings seem to want to stretch their brains towards new limits when it comes to creation at times makes me just a bit nervous to think of how far some people are willing to go. The leaps and bounds in technology that have been made throughout the years have done wonders, but the hubris involved isn’t always a good thing. The books, comics, and movies aren’t exactly a good indicator of what will happen, but the imagination of humanity is a little too terrifying to simply dismiss outright. Let’s face it, there are always those looking to upgrade and somehow ‘better’ the technology that is coming out so that it can be used in ways that it was never intended for.
Robots are in some ways very creepy. Even if they’re essentially useless when not powered up or being given commands, there’s no way to tell, unless you’re the controller, just what’s going on in the maze of circuits they call a brain. It’s believed at this point that programmers and engineers control their every move and that’s reassuring at least. It’ll stay that way hopefully, but the idea of making robots in our image or any other image just because it can be done still seems like a borderline bad idea at times. For some reason humanity wants to create something that looks similar, acts similar, and in many ways is similar but still superior to themselves due to their drive and imagination taking over for good old common sense. If we create something in our image and teach it everything we know then what’s to stop that creation from learning how to take over?
I know, I know, that’s paranoid talk and all, but somehow humans made their way from living in caves and out in the wilds, so why would it be such a stretch to think that a robot could finally learn how to become better than its creators and eventually how to become entirely autonomous? It’s a scary proposition that hasn’t come to light yet, and I hope that it never does. Until then robots are all well and good when they’re seen out and about for field tests, but they’re still kind of creepy.
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