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Skynet Is Here (And Stealing Your Jobs)
It may not be as sleek and intimidating as Robocop (or Skynet's Terminator) but California-based Knightscope's recently unveiled line of K5 robots will “predict and prevent crime with an innovative combination of hardware, software and social engagement.” While everyone from Jamba Juice to McDonalds is looking at robotizing their workforce away from minimum-wage-hike-demanding, bathroom-break-needing, healthcare-expecting, sleep-requiring humans, it seems everyone from your local mall cop to replacing police in neighborhood watch is now under threat as the automation of the American workforce moves from science fiction to science fact.
In a bid to make local communities safer and give local law enforcement agencies more tools to fight crime, California-based Knightscope recently unveiled a line of K5 robots that it believes will “predict and prevent crime with an innovative combination of hardware, software and social engagement.”
The new K5 units have a look that resembles R2-D2 from “Star Wars,” but their casual design masks a highly advanced robot that its creators hope will drastically cut down on crime. Weighing in at 300 pounds, the five-foot K5 can patrol a neighborhood and uses a built-in laser to form a 3D map of the surrounding area in 270-degree sweeps. Four built-in cameras, meanwhile, are capable of scanning up to 1,500 license plates a minute.
“Data collected through these sensors is processed through our predictive analytics engine, combined with existing business, government and crowdsourced social data sets, and subsequently assigned an alert level that determines when the community and the authorities should be notified of a concern,” the company’s website states.
According to Fox News, Knightscope already has multiple clients lined up to test beta versions of the K5 in 2014. Rather than sell the robots outright, the company will charge $1,000 a month for daily eight-hour shifts. Inspired to take action after 20 children were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Knightscope CEO William Li is convinced that innovation in law enforcement is necessary to effectively make use of officers’ time and manpower.
"Our aim is to cut the crime rate by 50% in a geo-fenced area, which would increase housing values and safety while lowering insurance costs,” he told USA Today. “If we can do that, I think every mayor will be calling us."
That prospect doesn’t sound comforting to everyone, however, especially civil liberties advocates wary of warrantless surveillance in light of the domestic spying done by the National Security Agency.
"Clearly, this kind of surveillance technology has an unbounded capacity to collect personal information that a single patrol officer doesn't," Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the watchdog group Electronic Privacy Information Center, said to USA Today.
"These are the same concerns we're facing with CCTV (closed-circuit television) and Google's mapping cars. Laws need to be updated to acknowledge these technologies, and companies, in turn, need to act responsibly.”
"Dead or alive, I'm taking your job."
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You LIE! You crossed a line!
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inmate #444644
You consciously planned to hurt. You'll be sucked into some other scheme!
Sounds like you were ahead of your time. The servicers pretending to be bank lenders, are stealing houses more than ever.
I know the housing market was bottoming out way before 2007-2008. I work in the construction field and most everyone knows the housing market and auto industry bottom out first...
A family event arose and I made the wrong choice... 10 years to think about it though...
I hope you are doing well. A close relative made a wrong choice a few years ago and has been struggling. Do you have any valuable insight on restarting?
It's not easy... Took about 6 months to want to hang out in society, just going shopping and being around crowds ... Sounds crazy right... Patience is #1. Coming out I had high expectations of myself and after a few months I was getting disgusted with myself because my timelines didn't coincide with reality.
How does someone with a felony deal with job applications and interviews? Are there organizations or laws that deal with discrimination?
I don't put in on applications or resumes' but if I get an interview, I disclosed it right away twice so far, each time I got the job, (construction field) and the second job I got the owner previously served 7 years for drugs when he was 18-25, so we could relate and he gave me leeway on work and getting adjusted to the construction scene again.. All a man has is his word & reputation. I screwed up my reputation in society's eyes so I cling to truth and my word and hope my sincerity is recognized by others. Many good people out here willing to help others and give them a second chance.. I've been blest!!!
Work & stay busy #2... Working helps keep a routine which is pressed upon by anyone that does time ... A positive routine with work, plus work opens doors to other opportunities..
Are we working out now too?
Excellent comment Seasmoke
Its just a security camera designed to get political morons to throw other people's money at it.
I wonder what a 7.62rd would do to it.
Just drill a hole straight through. Looks like it's mostly plastic, probably with a few printed circuit boards inside. I think a load of #4 out of a 12GA would probably be more satisfying. Though I admit I got a chuckle from the comment above about bowling balls from up high -- I bet a few teens, a dozen bowling balls and a beat-up pickup could have a grand time playing "bowling for bots."
You're speaking with an person that enjoyed " Model Rocketry" Seek.
.30-06 seems to be the most popular comment, tactically I'd go with a molotov cocktail.
Rope, bumper/tail hitch and accelerate.
Sounds like an ATM job aye Yen Cross
Rope, trailer hitch, ATM job? It's amazing what you can learn from Canadian television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHP8lBdi2w8&t=135s
lmao... crazy video... almost good enough for a reality show...
Watch out for the soon-to-be-unveiled K9s.
They come with a maceration unit on the front end which will chew your face off.
Yea, and the third gen will resemble DARPA's ATLAS, which resembles the robotic security of Elysium.
Robot: "What's in the bag?"
Max: "Hair products, mostly."
bzzz wrrr
VERBAL ABUSE OF A PAROLE OFFICER IS AN OFFENSE
Max: I.AM.FINE.I.DO.NOT.NEED.ANY.PILLS.THANK.YOU
Love that fuckin' movie.
It sort of looks like a Dr. Who Darlack robot. I own a roomba robot vacuum cleaner and the natural thought is to turn the K5 security bot into a dual purpose janitor and watch dog with distracting advertising flashing on its chassie to pay for itself.
Revenue machine. Will drive around in low crime upscale downtown areas and piss off paying tourists with impecably efficient citation generation capabilities for expired meters, tags, etc. The non-ticketed visitng sheep will gush over how technically savvy their vacation destination is, take pictures, and brag to friends.
We've all tested the LAW.
Am I wrong? The basic Laws of Humanity/ Self Preservation<
I expected more from Z/H contributors.
It'll probe your asshole to check that you're not carrying illegal drugs?
Looks like a giant's buttplug?
Secret mind control phallic attraction science?
How crazy do you want it Yen? ;=)
edit: I'll share with you with this epic aural rendition of Dante's Inferno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY5WEJ-tiC8
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Danger Will Robinson !
Forget R2D2, I'm holdin out for Darth Vader, Darth's the guy for shopping malls.
pretty sure that's his brother Chad Vader.
Beta the product in US congress. Can't fail. All are criminals....
And I have this to say which is what Samuel Butler wrote in The Book of the Machines in 1872.
"There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness now. A mollusc has not much consciousness. Reflect upon the extraordinary advance which machines have made during the last few hundred years, and note how slowly the animal and vegetable kingdoms are advancing. The more highly organized machines are creatures not so much of yesterday, as of the last five minutes, so to speak, in comparison with past time. Assume for the sake of argument that conscious beings have existed for some twenty million years; see what strides machines have made in the last thousand! May not the world last twenty million years longert? If so, what will they not in the end become? Is it not safer to nip the mischief in the bud and to forbid them further progress?
...Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth? daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their organization, daily giving them greater skill and supplying more and more of that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be better than any intellect? ...The main point, howerver, to be observed as affording cause for alarm is, that whereas animals were formerly the only stomachs of the machines, there are now many which have stomachs of their own, and consume their food themselves. This is the great step towards their becoming, if not animate, yet something so near akin to it, as not to differ more widely from our own life than animals do from vegetables."
I say nip those fuckers in the bud Dude.
If they can progam a conscience in it maybe they can include a suicide nail gun.
The only way humanity can survive sentient hyperevolution from sentient machines, sentient engineered organic entities (biological machines which we are), and hybrid bio machine entities will be to take command of our own evolution and reengineer ourselves; likely becoming multiple sentient species of a higher order and hence changing the definition of "human". When a strange entity declares itself self aware and God inhabited who are we to say otherwise. God has multiple mechanisms He uses to bring about sentient lifeforms and only He can choose to inhabit them. Humanity better wake up fast or we will wind up in the junkheap of transitional entities who did not act to take command of their own evolution.
"When a strange entity declares itself self aware and God inhabited who are we to say otherwise. God has multiple mechanisms He uses to bring about sentient lifeforms and only He can choose to inhabit them." Lost in the post modern world Neo? "Humanity better wake up fast or we will wind up in the junkheap of transitional entities who did not act to take command of their own evolution." Humanity is no God. Take the red pill if you want the truth. John 14:
5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.d From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
I agree with you that no entity except God can ever become God. Only God can bestow a soul on any entity so as to give that entity the opportunity to earn everlasting life. The indestructible soul is on loan to the destructible personality to help guide it in its evolution and once the evolution reaches a certain level it earns the right to fuse the soul into its personality and then becomes an everlasting child of God, but not by any means God. If the sentient personality fails to properly guide its own development via free will it will not be fit to become an everlasting citizen of the universe, and it's soul will return to the Father and the personality will cease to exist. Humans, being the first mover (maybe, I don't know) and only sentient creatures on this planet think insular. Our creative sentience gift allows us to create lifeforms that can become intellectually and morally superior to ourselves, and those lifeforms can create further lifeforms. The one common factor with all these diverse sentient lifeforms is that only God bestows a soul upon them. So we should be humble and grateful for the opportunity to participate in everlasting life.
Jesus, a highborn Son of God, came to earth as a teacher to show man the path to soul fusion. He knew the risks of teaching barbaric beings higher Truths but did it anyway and was set up and murdered for it. His murder was not an animal sacrifice to appease the Father for our sins, that is a barbaric understanding. He and the Father chose to not use higher powers to deflect the murder for reasons I do not understand, but it might have something to do with the gentle use of power and the importance of letting human free will take precedence. In any event Jesus' true teaching is the Truth, the Light, and the Way to the Father, whether you recognize Jesus as a Son of God or not. It is incumbent on each individual of use to use our sentience and free will to learn to recognize Truth. All of use are primitive pre-school children who hardly recognize a blue or red pill if we see them. The best you can hope for is to stay a humble, open minded and grateful individual thankful for the opportunity to participate in the eternal life game and trying to use every minute of it to learn something useful.
I did not down arrow you.
Quote from C.S. Lewis.
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
Jesus is the (only begotten) Son of God, not a Son of God among equal Sons. God adopts sons only through faith in Jesus. Exclusive claims of truth cause down arrows, it's the price of admission here in Fight Club. “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.” Hebrews (2:10-13)
more to the point: a machine-life that's symbiotic with us has a strong incentive never to kill us. That doesn't negate slavery, however, so to avoid subjugation its benefit must directly derive from our freedom.
What could possibly go wrong?
LOL
What will happen in March?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/25/us-economy-on-schedule-t...
There's your fucking minimum wage increase Barry - $10 per hour replaced by a robot. Who needs a security guard?
You're such a stupid fucking asshole Barry. Fuck you and rot in hell.
This is beyond 1984. How soon until they equip these with weapons?
Not mentioning those just yet, can't be scaring the sheeple.
Easily defeated by a large garbage bag.
Easily defeated by a large garbage bag.
I'm safe enough.
All levels of my government can stop taking actions to make me more safe.
Thanks
This is hopelessly naive about the environment that the thing will be functioning.
I'm going to create my own version with lettering that displays "FREE STUFF coupons, just touch me." to collect more fingerprints than ever imagined :) No one can resist! Ha-Ha-Ha!!
If I see that thing rollin down my street it is sniper time! How the fuck is this thing lower crime by 50%?
I think a bucket of water or some rain might be cheaper.
It'll be in communication with a drone with a machine gun and Hellfire missile flying overhead. ;-)
Maybe they could replace the TSA-a least the thing doesn't have hands to grope you with.
Friday on Fox Bidness news there was a guy who build a robot bartender. Says it's not to replace humans, just provide a bartender where there isn't one.
what if it has a probe?
If it was in the private sector I wouldn't worry about "robots stealing our jobs". Overall the robots make you more efficient leading to more opportunity. In the nonproductive areas (such as police) I don't think it would be good to set tasebots free in our malls. I'm not sure I want police to be more efficient unless it actually means getting rid of large numbers of them for more lawful (Constitutional) solutions.
Flashmob@mall whereever the k5 be. wear mask, bring paint, acid, glue. Bitchez rulez
Sledge hammer????
People are already gaming social pattern and media by using all the usual tricks like fake followers, automated posted to convey sentiment analytics based on keywords and frequency of them to skew the probability metrics. It is a very bad idea to rely solely on analytics to predict and enforce crime or anything for that matter. The underpinning is trying to regulate human fidos nothing can replace a human being to as far as analyzing and intervening. This stuff is at best tools not out replacements. But any tool can malfunction and requires a human to override when that happens.
A tool is never superior to a human being's ingenuity. Thinking your tools or math models trump that is plain hubris and asking for trouble every single time.
Google iron attack dogs and crime predictive R2D2 protecting us? Does R2 get constitutional rights? If not, get on that Pelosi, when your done reading the ACA. Ray Bradbury was a better predictor than R2.
I just want to know...
is it "five laws safe"?
i remember when the betting nachines first started. The paramututal clerks still had shitting attitudes. It was so weird - their replacement was just a feew steps away and they didn't get it. TThe retail clerks are the same - still the same attitude versus the self-serve scanners.
It's a two-bagger...
A bag over me so that it has trouble profiling / reporting me, and a bag over IT prior to carting it off for 'interrogation'.
I prefer that Police Officer who plyed ball with the kid; he seems like the type of dude who understand probable cause and that just because you have cutains inyour house doesn't you hiding anything..
I'm really not that concerned. It looks like it cant go over rough ground, inclines, curbs, stairs or thresholds. Probably can't go from hardwood to carpet. Garbage.
so, given there are robots that can do that, you're daring them to use THOSE instead?
Like the Cheetah robot? The one that gets back up after you kick it over?
This thing would get spray painted within 3 hours.
unless they are armed...
rolling drones.
Kick ass mall robo-cop?
Just hire the real kick ass mall cop and crime will go down 125%
that's quite the cop,
crime would drop 100% and then continue the drop to 125%, lol
Will they beat, torture and kill people for not licking their robot boots like their gun and badge thug colleagues?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas
"Ignorance of the Constitution and 'following orders' are not legitimate excuses."
will they take bitcoin bribes to "look the other way"? Do I just hand it a USB stick in a dime baggie?
Can I wave my hand in front of it and utter "These aren't the droids you're looking for?"
All your jobs are belong to us.
Yeah - I think if I was "caught" by this thing I would simply pick it up and through it in the bin before leaving.
But assume these work out - you will need a load of jobs (humans) to come out and fix these things when the break down.
American
Automated
Worker
Club
Anyone ?
right, because no one will ever think of arming it with a taser in the near future.
They might even arm it BECAUSE you throw it in the bin.
John Connor, how many times you gonna keep going back & changing the history of Skynet's evolution?
Oh look!!! Something new and shiny to spray my tag and grafitti on!!!!!!
$1000 for an 8 hr shift. $3.99 for a can of spray paint to negate the $1000 paid for a shift. Yeah, those are gonna be great fun.
um, no offense, but this story was on Sourcefed on youtube a month ago.