Celebrities React to Boston Dynamics' Dancing Robots

[sadteenager]

Reza Zadeh, founder & CEO of "Computer Vision" (whatever that is lmao) company Matroid, shared a video of dancing robots via twitter today. The video features different robots from Boston Dynamics dancing to the 60s hit "Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance?)" by The Contours.

It's pretty awesome how dancing makes robots less intimidating. Looking

Comments

[sadteenager]

can we not feel the wonder AND horror at the damage this type of technology could cause in the wrong hands? also robots are not human so distrusting them isn't being robbed of our humanity, nor is distrusting the corrupt billionaires funding this work.

[nandexdame]

lol i agree with you. these doom twitter responses are exhausting

[sandstorm]

I know this isn't Google related, but a lot of the big players in AI and robotics are racist, and bring that into the office when they create these things. Also, with services like Amazon's Ring vvideos being sold to police, I understand the distrust. The tech is fine. The people who make it are not. It's why there's such an ethics problem in tech - a bunch of mostly white losers who work to make tech for the highest bidder, not the greater good.

[ahkna]

children in the 60s came up with some truly terrifying technological horror so i wouldn't say that at all.

[ahkna]

i don't understand this comment, but in general, distrust over robotics has always been common as long as human beings have been conceiving of them.

[ishi_chan]

I thought they meant fiction (ETA: and art). Ie people in the 60s could very well imagine quite terrible downsides to new technologies and worried about them.

[adam_pally]

Sci-fi in the 50's & 60's was filled with killer robots tho.

[adam_pally]

That doesn't really change what I said tho and I think you're looking back at those times with nostalgia glasses on.

The US had developed and used atomic bombs only 10-20 years prior and technology was starting to advance much faster than it had previously. People were beginning to realize technology could be used unethically and apocalyptically and it was a real fear back then.

[ponyboy]

almost as if technology like this is almost guaranteed to be used against ppl or something

[sweet_heloise]

It's because of our long and well-documented history of taking new technology and turning it into a weapon. Look at the amount of money that goes to the military industrial complex.

[sadteenager]

see this is a nuanced take I can support! that's the sad thing. we have enough technology and resources right now to make the world so much better but it's being commodified and corrupted by the wrong ppl :/