Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for May 26, 2024

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    Ratkin Premium Member 7 months ago

    Even robots prefer bipedalism

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    MeanBob Premium Member 7 months ago

    It does seem to be the way we’re headed.

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    Superfrog  6 months ago

    Perhaps we’ll be remembered in some archive as an early beta version of android.

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    Zykoic  6 months ago

    Replicating AI robots are probably the next evolutional step. The critical term is “replication”. Robots are much more robust than humans. Passing MIL-STD-810 exceeds any human stress levels.

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    wi3leong Premium Member 6 months ago

    I like the idea but the steps in between the smart phone and the front of the line don’t work for me.

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    Prawnclaw  6 months ago

    What is the thingy after the ‘human’?

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    HarryLime  6 months ago

    Should this line have started with the fish … and ended with the robot? Or is Coverly suggesting that we are retreating, not advancing?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  6 months ago

    That’s not evolution.

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    NRHAWK Premium Member 6 months ago

    Spring, Summer and Fall my Saturday morning routine consists of sitting at a cafe downtown reading a chapter, drinking my coffee and then watching the lesser of our species on their devices walking into each other, walking into lamp posts, walking into corners of buildings or into doors and sometimes walking into rolling traffic. I would have watched that guy walk in front of a moving car if that little girl hadn’t jerked him back to the curb in time. This is actually pretty entertaining. I mean seriously how often do we get a chance to actually watch Darwin’s theories in process? I do have to wonder though if Elon Musk’s brain chip thingy is going to somehow speed up the process.

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    currysteph Premium Member 6 months ago

    doesnt work that way

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    uniquename  6 months ago

    Elon is working on that sixth step.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member 6 months ago

    All that fuss about climate change was wasted, evolution includes air conditioning in those robots.

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    Frank Burns Eats Worms  6 months ago

    AI caramba!

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    LeeGP  6 months ago

    It looks like the human got himself uploaded and bopped around in some virtual reality setting for a while, got bored and downloaded into a robot so he could interact with the physical world.

    Look up Diaspora by Greg Egan >

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    DD IN AZ Premium Member 6 months ago

    Probably the only way “we” will ever be able to get to any other star…

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    sdjamieson Premium Member 6 months ago

    Prophetic.

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    lemonbaskt  6 months ago

    robot need to wear helmet like they do in heathcliff !!!!

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    one-non_blonde  6 months ago

    John Connor is shaking his head at all this. Sarah Connor asks “Have I taught you nothing!!”

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    christelisbetty  6 months ago

    This is either a repeat, or someone else had one very similar.

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    otforever  6 months ago

    Looks like a silly-Con argument to me.

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    Dan Collins creator 6 months ago

    We have achieved nerdvana.

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