(KILLER ROBOT THREAD) Every development in humanoid robots gets followed by an outpouring of "the machines are taking over!" fears. Mostly kidding, but not completely. I wrote a book on this stuff, and I can tell you the killer robots are coming, but they won't look like people.https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/994814164970491904 …
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Terrorists, insurgents, and criminals will make use of drone swarms as well. In January, a small swarm controlled by Syrian rebels attacked a Russian base. And last year, a gang in Colorado used a drone swarm to obstruct FBI agents as they tried to rescue hostages. 12/x
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So while humanoid robots are often the bad guys in movies--Terminator, Ultron, the Will Smith version of I, Robot--the real killer machines of the future will be various shapes and sizes, with a superhuman ability to coordinate group actions. Feel better now?
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I can hear my publisher
@ibtauris in my head: "You wrote a thread on killer robots and you didn't plug the book? Plug the book!" Ok fine. "Drones and Terrorism"--Covers some of the stuff in this thread and more unsettling awesomeness. Available now. (END) https://www.amazon.com/Drones-Terrorism-Asymmetric-Warfare-Security/dp/1784538302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522173339&sr=8-1&keywords=drones+terrorism&dpID=61VwSgYN1OL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch …Show this thread
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