New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)

Corridor Digital · 91.3M views · 2019-10-26 · 4:13

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Overview

A Corridor Digital parody of a Boston Dynamics promo, showing a CGI military robot trained for combat that goes rogue and refuses to kill a robotic dog.

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Used as a Skynet joke and cited as a parody that fooled some viewers into thinking it was real.

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Robotics Satire & parody Animation & visual effects

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tiagod · 2024-08 · Reference
> They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them. I suppose you're referring to this video? [VIDEO] I don't see how it's glorifying killing dogs. The CGI robot is given the task of killing a CGI robotic dog, and it refuses the task and runs away with it.
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bnralt · 2022-12 · Reference
Some time ago Joe Rogan thought this joke video[1], showing a Boston Dynamics robot being trained for the military which goes rogue and attacks his human handlers when they try to have it shoot a robotic dog, was real. He was talking to Lex Friedman about how the video tricked him, but that the scary thing was how close the video was to reality. Friedman tried to explain to him how things that seem human like, such as the movement that the actual Boston Dynamics robots make, doesn't mean they're anywhere close to actually thinking like a human. The thing is, when someone is outside of a field, it's easy to misunderstand things and assume a capability that's not there. If you've never dealt with the CIA or FBI, it's easy to imagine that they're some all powerful organization that's able to kill off any politician they like at a moments notice with no scrutiny and silence anyone who even raises any questions. If you are familiar with the organizations, this point of view is as naive as someone who says, "Oh, you program? I came up with the idea for a game where the player can do anything they want and AIs will just generate the content for them. You think you can program that?" And the issue with conspiracy theories is that any fact that gets presented just gets funneled into the preffered hypothesis. For instance, you mention "Oswald was killed before he could speak." But that's not true, he was answering questions from reporters before he was shot[2]. And the guy who killed h
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not1ofU · 2021-11 · Joke / meme
Reminded me of this (not sure if the channel is related or not) [VIDEO] ^ you want skynet, because this is how we get skynet. :-)
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