They have had their robot weapons running around NYC all summer that company is fucked up

Boston Dynamics is adding ChatGPT’s new voice generation functionality to its Spot robot, the result of which an automaton that can greet people on a company visit, able to generate accents, creating hitherto unknown empathy in the world of robotics, perhaps with the exception of those “abused robot videos” that made us all take their side and see the evil human who pushed the robot, hit it with a stick, or prevented it from doing its job.

Robots can talk like us, but it doesn’t make them human

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Enrique Dans

Rants About Tech and Life

Oct 31, 2023

They have had their robot weapons running around NYC all summer that company is fucked up

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