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Looks useful for killer robots.

Sure enough, DARPA funding.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/machine-common-sense

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I feel like this is a silly connection to make. Literally any technology is useful for killing people, it's just a matter of how much it's useful only for killing people. Common sense understanding has world changing applications.

$200000 ready, with a million more well on the way.

Somebody making the droid armies of the trade federation is probably a technical certainty.

Can't wait for the Droideka driven by Tesla's Autopilot technology to crash into the ambulance carrying me to the hospital on the way to put down an Amazon fulfillment center strike

You survive but the little girl in the car who also was in the crash was left behind. She had only a 49% chance of surviving while you had a 50% chance. You'll go on to fall in love with Dr. Calvin

Doctor Calvin Morrison, I presume?

Dr. Susan Calvin, from I Robot

I can't wait to be in an ambulance that doesn't cost me $3,000 per mile and crashes less than humans

You can have this now if you live anywhere else jn the world but the USA.

Of course the USA needs to solve self-driving cars to solve a basic social welfare problem. Then you’ll be paying $3500 a mile anyway.

The cost part is available now, but don't think anyone has self driving tech even in testing that can drive an ambulance on lights and sirens.

Killer robots are pretty cool

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