These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance.
If only there was a cheaper way to provide around-the-clock video surveillance. Alas, we don’t have the technology.
Even if you needed something mobile, it’s not like datacenters are exactly complex landscapes.
They don’t need something mobile. They can stick 1000 cameras up for the cost of one of these and have less up keep.
I was thinking the same thing. For surveillance, can’t they just use the iconic Camera on Wall. Or if they want to get really advanced with the surrounding premises: Camera on Pole.
And use AI to actually monitor the thousand cameras. Ask me how I know.
How you know
The AI company I work for recently rolled it out. It works. We are getting alerts when we block the view of a monitored object or an unfamiliar face is in a secure location. Many thousands of cameras are monitored with minimal human oversight.
With enough kinetic energy, anything’s mobile.
And no recharging time.
They’re getting all these dystopian nightmare ideas from video games and scifi. People have proven you can sneak past these things inside of a cardboard box.
They are BEGGING for some metal gear carnage.
I wonder how many robot duds will be stolen per year? Lots of neat parts in them if you know some electronics.
Someone will be posting about a factory reset button within a year.
If AI is in charge just ask them to write a time zone calculator in python or whatever.
The elites don’t want you to know this but the robot dogs patrolling data centers are free. You can take them home.
If your datacenter is mobile, you’ve really fucked up!
A camera on a roomba.
You know the video part is training data for autonomous weapons right? Like sure if all you want to do is video surveillance this is overkill, but maybe this is about more than surveillance?
Data centers and wasting massive amounts of resources. Name a more iconic duo.
billionaires and every crime in the book.
oh they’ll figure it out real quick when these bots get pwned and become malware vectors against the data centers they’re ‘protecting’
It’s about them not rebelling their evil overlords (except if they get hacked).
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
I still don’t understand them not just making a tribe of loved equals for a bunker. Power rots the mind and soul
Any good articles on how to permanently seal those bunkers?
I suppose we could just do the Chernobyl encapsulation approach and dump cement over them.
It’s almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats…
Ah, lovely. I see that one Black Mirror episode is taking another step toward being reality.
more than just that one, buddy.
Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
Snare one, wrap it in some kind of faraday bag, then disassemble it and resell the parts. Or befriend it and play Frisbee together.
Reprogram it to hunt billionaires instead.
Send it back on the post to hunt the baby tech bros.
Just like the T-800 and K2-SO. Reprogram all the droids.
Or to destroy a data center.
Faraday nets are fucking genius.
With a just a few just large enough neodymium magnets.
No signal, no movement, no data.
Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.
I mean, that won’t really work. It dampens the signal, not eliminates it, and in order to block communications, you need a net width small enough to block 1/4 wavelength which is 5cm/4, so <1 cm holes with a material thick enough for the damping.
That would be a net that weighs like 20kg lol and it would essentially be a solid cage at that point
Not to mention that it would have to fully encompass them.
Better to just use a signal jammer like they do for drones.
How dare you shatter my dreams and then reinvigorate them with a solution
A half cube metal shipping container could very easily be modified to work as a faraday cage. Or even a Trash cash.
You didn’t even need to do that. You can pull the battery packs off pretty easily. These are very easy to disable, and due to the fact they aren’t nimble, they can’t get away from you.
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
they’d be great vectors for infiltration.
Reprogram it and send it back in time to protect John Connor
Don’t be wasteful.
Take them for parts.Hunting them for sport must be fun, and there is zero guilt unlike regular hunting ! I bet they are extremely vulnerable to pit traps 😁 just hide the hole under a tarp and watch em fall !
I’d love to see one captured then injected with expanding foam aka the speed camera treatment.
Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.
So if we raid a data center, besides RAM we get free robot dogs? Sweet.
guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
I couldn’t help but read this in David Mitchell’s voice.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
I take that as a compliment, thanks.
Fortune is an American publication…
I didn’t write a comment on Fortune’s website, I wrote a comment to a post in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/technology is a community in Lemmy.World, an instance for the entire world to use.
It’s a literal copy paste of the article title. This is such a strange thing to get upset about.
Think hiding in a big box and walking slowly would trick it?
“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.
Must’ve been the wind.
Doesn’t look like anything to me
Snake?!
[deleted]
Black Mirror, here we come.
So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
Well you can’t attach a machine gun to a dog with teeth. I mean you can, but it won’t hit anything.
I mean, it might. Fire enough bullets wherever the dog is looking and it’ll be bound to hit something.
On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their “dogs” pretty often, and they’re build to adjust their balance very quickly.
Anything to not hire people uh
deleted by creator
Take comfort in knowing that the fight against robots for water will be short. Very, very short.
Nah, they are nowhere near as good as the movies, nor are the villains all that smart.
deleted by creator
I mean, ideally all dangerous jobs should be replaced by machines wherever possible.
Hunting without killing animals 👌
Shhhh fuckers gonna take that idea and run with it. AI powered deer bots.
Dumbest people in charge. Actual dogs are way cheaper. And better at what they do.
So steal the robot dogs?
Now we just need a robot steak
I’m sure some hackers could figure out the wireless communications and hijack…
Or a big ass anti static bag and a few doods with masks. As far as easy to steal $100K+ items go these seem kinda like a great target.
[deleted]
So anyways I left the door to the microwave open.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Basically yea, you’re paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it’s probably still cheaper to just hire people.
But the c suite got to say “AI” a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
Yup 100% nothing’s real it’s just all feels
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
It’s only a matter of time till “birds aren’t real” isn’t satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords
spoiler
right into a pile of magnets
.
Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?
These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.
They might be genuinely concerned about the working class revolting against them and are looking for ways to protect their assets without the peasant class involvement
How is this cheaper than hiring a security guard for a couple years?
It’s not, but the robot doesn’t have morals or a conscience or alignment with human values to get in the way. Kinda like billionaires!
AI datacentres hope to last forever.
In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.
Also, the robot is not just an employee, it’s an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.
A security guard that looks after real dogs. German Shepards and belgian whatchacall thems are better at this than some overhyped clanker dog.
