What could go wrong?

[1903 Perfection]

Meet SPOT: New robotic 'dog' joins St. Pete police to help fight crime

The St. Petersburg Police Department has a new tool to fight crime. It’s a dog – but this dog doesn’t have fur, doesn’t need food and doesn’t get tired.

www.wfla.com

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Eh. Not really much different than other "robots" they use. Except maybe opening doors.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

It isn't autonomous.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

It isn't autonomous.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.


Especially since they taught them to dance on our graves already.

 

[Twangbanger]

Oh great...electric dogs probably programmed by white supremacists with pre-loaded systemic animus against Black Lives. No doubt contracted out to the same people who make SAT tests and Diebold voting machines. I guess real Fidos couldn't do the job well enough, so now Ol' Blue can smash black bodies with the efficiency of a Tyson Chicken Farm, without the pangs of human conscience or unpleasantness of getting blood on their boots.

Why don't we just bring back slavery and get it over with for chrissakes...

I cannot take this, I'm going to go drink wine and watch cat videos.

 

[Tombs]

It isn't autonomous.

They will be. It isn't a matter of if but when.

Convivence always wins out.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

They will be. It isn't a matter of if but when.

Convivence always wins out.

I had to look up "convivence." I don't understand how it relates to robots becoming autonomous.

 

[1903 Perfection]

Let's program Fido to recognize faces, or to react to certain metallic objects concealed upon a body. If you aren't a lawbreaker, why would you worry?

 

[jake blue]

I had to look up "convivence." I don't understand how it relates to robots becoming autonomous.

It follows confefe

 

[Tombs]

I had to look up "convivence." I don't understand how it relates to robots becoming autonomous.

Auto correct gets me sometimes, I was typing convenience.

 

[Leadeye]

Interesting piece of hardware and it's nice to have benefactors that will buy new equipment for the local PD. How expensive are those things?

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Interesting piece of hardware and it's nice to have benefactors that will buy new equipment for the local PD. How expensive are those things?

From what I can find out about $74.5k to the public, of course that's the base model without options.

 

[Vodnik4]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.


Especially since they taught them to dance on our graves already.

This is super cool from tech perspective.

But... are they using live ammo for that demo? These guys are crazy to have a loaded firearm with live ammo pointed to their head , manipulated by AI — no matter how confident in your tech, there’s non-zero chance of it going wrong.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

This is super cool from tech perspective.

But... are they using live ammo for that demo? These guys are crazy to have a loaded firearm with live ammo pointed to their head , manipulated by AI — no matter how confident in your tech, there’s non-zero chance of it going wrong.

The first video is a spoof done with CGI, the second one with the dancing is real.