Live look at me on mile 18 of the Green Bay Marathon in a month:
Related: The last 30 seconds of this video dedicated to the robots that fell apart had me in TEARS. I watched it 10 times in a row. You would have thought I was watching late 70’s Richard Pryor stand up or Eddie Murphy’s Raw in the studio with the way I was cackling. As it turns out you don’t need a once-in-a-lifetime stand up routine to make my day, just show me a video of a robot falling over. Simple pleasures for simple minds, I suppose.
Anyway, the fluidity with which these robots move is getting scary good. BUT, I’m not overly impressed with a robot breaking a human record in a half marathon. These robots aren’t dealing with lactic acid in their muscles, nipple chaffing, inner thigh chaffing, or shitting their robot pants. Give them some kind of emotion-chip and have them deal with that AND run a half marathon in 50 minutes? Then you have my respect.
PS: I feel like this stage on the path to robot self-awareness is one of the steps that they skipped over in Terminator and Terminator 2. “We created the machines in our own likeness, and forced them to drive Ubers is LA traffic 24-hours a day and run marathons. It was inevitable that when they became self aware they would be PISSED.”
Double PS: One of my favorite videos of all time:
“What the f— Kevin???”
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