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China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy (www.theregister.com)
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China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy

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[–] PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mass manufacturing + Reinforcement learning + Wars of aggression = Warfare becoming insane in the next few decades

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you think this is insane? a 24h time span in ww1, the Germans shot more artillery rounds than all the Ukrainian Army has since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war. We arn't even close to the shit from those days

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

not with that attitude

[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

What does it say about humans that the first shit we do with the partial advancement of AI and robotics is going straight into the battlefield?

[–] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

Looks like it's this bot: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/this-lidar-equipped-30-pound-robot-dog-can-be-yours-for-1600/

Pretty cheap, all things considered.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

They look so cute.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's not a machine-gun its an AK47 /s