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The idea that doors were the insurmountable obstacle for atlas was comforting. Then they went and did this.

 

Just install some CAPTCHAs.

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Atlas's horizontal to vertical crouch explosive thrust could be very easily re purposed for shattering human sternums. Just saying.

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soooo.... AlphaGo won the first game against Lee Sedol. It's coming.

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soooo.... AlphaGo won the first game against Lee Sedol. It's coming.

Soon humans will never again win a board game.

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speaking of which...

 

here is the most horrifying thing to happen to a fruit ever

 

 

do not watch if you want to continue to find grapes appetizing

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speaking of which...

 

here is the most horrifying thing to happen to a fruit ever

 

 

do not watch if you want to continue to find grapes appetizing

 

 

Oh my god that's incredible. Wonderment is present in me.

 

Sorry all, I'm siding with the robots.

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soooo.... AlphaGo won the first game against Lee Sedol. It's coming.

I do find it delightful that AlphaGo developer DeepMind was co-founded by Demis Hassabis, who at 17 was the lead programmer on Theme Park.

(Presumably this AI is better than that in Theme Park, which seemed to cause all my lawn-mowing handymen to end up stuck in the bottom-right corner of the map.)

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I do find it delightful that AlphaGo developer DeepMind was co-founded by Demis Hassabis, who at 17 was the lead programmer on Theme Park.

Goddamit, that's where I know that name from! Amazing.

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All I'm gonna say is if a robot stitched my eye back together after whatever accident would make that necessary, that robot is gonna be my new best friend. We're gonna hang out and play video games and shit.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is-said-to-put-boston-dynamics-robotics-unit-up-for-sale

 

Google puts Boston Dynamics up for sale. Possible acquirers include the Toyota Research Institute, a division of Toyota Motor Corp., and Amazon.com Inc.

 

Basically the refusal (bee-fusal?) of the military to fund or buy product from Boston Dynamic was its undoing.

 

PetMan will remember this.

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God I hope it's Amazon.  I cannot wait to hear the sounds of my Amazon Prime packages buzzing down the street toward my house on the back of a Big Dog.

 

That article also reminded me that Google's parent company changed its name to Alphabet Inc

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