It’s weird to be riding on a cable car in San Francisco, a method of transport developed here in the 1870’s, and see a fully autonomous self-driving taxi pull up right next to you. #history#transportation#science#cars#robots
If FLOSS is built on the four freedoms, and FLOSS has created an environment that is brittle, then perhaps it’s time for FLOSS to similarly augment the four freedoms.
We have to address this in a fundamental way. The alternative may well be the (eventual) end of FLOSS as we know it.
Hey Mastodon! If you live a life of a #geek, have a #hobby to share, maybe something about #robots, #programming, #handmade things, #keyboard building, and please join the @geeky group. Let it be the place to discover and share.🙂
Anyone who fears that we may be wiped out by artificial intelligence should just buy a robot vacuum cleaner and watch the unshakable determination with which it returns, over and over again, to the one corner of the room where it gets stuck every time.
A realistic “Terminator" movie would consist of two hours of well-meaning humans patiently disentangling the T-800 from the rug or dragging it out from under the bookshelf while it beeps pathetically for assistance.
Damn, I was suddenly reminded that the Tech-Bro Hypes about how a new technology would revolutionize daily life and society didn't start with the dotcom bubble in the late 90s.
It goes back at leas to the early 80s.
Robot servants at home were the future, man!
And this whole current AI fad looks indistinguishable to me.
Last WIP impression of today. Detailing has started. No coloring done yet. I like the copper-like color he's got now. Maybe I'll keep that to a certain extent.
I think I'll name him Robo Mofo. 🤖
More will follow tomorrow. See other posts in this thread for more WIP impressions.