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There are some legitimate arguments that robotic technology and the military are, uh, absolutely horrifying. Some students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University feel uneasy about the new Army AI research base on campus and Google employees protested working on an AI project for the U.S. Pentagon.
Then again, who doesn’t love a good killer robot flick?
Terminator: Dark Fate is out in theaters this weekend, but this video might be even scarier due to some unnerving realism. Corridor Digital, an L.A. production studio that specializes in visual effects, has filmed a wet-your-pants level parody video that depicts a future full of robotic soldiers, eliminating the need for human intervention.
This robot is fast! It can shoot targets with perfect precision (while having huge objects thrown at it)! It can get pushed over by other soldiers and then run up after them and point a gun at their chest! It can even withstand gunshots in a standoff!
The parody is a clear nod to Boston Dynamics, the robotics company in Massachusetts that constantly produces funny-yet-creepy videos of the progress its robots are making. There’s Spot, a dog-like robot that companies can now lease, and a humanoid robot called Atlas that’s pretty spooky himself, as he tramps through the woods like a metallic Slenderman and performs Parkour.
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