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Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices

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214 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jagger27 ◴[24 Jun 25 19:31 UTC] No.44370063[source]▶
These are going to be war machines, make absolutely no mistake about it. On-device autonomy is the perfect foil to escape centralized authority and accountability. There’s no human behind the drone to charge for war crimes. It’s what they’ve always dreamed of.

Who’s going to stop them? Who’s going to say no? The military contracts are too big to say no to, and they might not have a choice.

The elimination of toil will mean the elimination of humans all together. That’s where we’re headed. There will be no profitable life left for you, and you will be liquidated by “AI-Powered Automation for Every Decision”[0]. Every. Decision. It’s so transparent. The optimists in this thread are baffling.

0: https://www.palantir.com/

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JumpCrisscross ◴[24 Jun 25 20:05 UTC] No.44370468[source]▶
> These are going to be war machines, make absolutely no mistake about it

Of course they will. Practically everything useful has a military application. I'm not sure why this is considered a hot take.

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jagger27 ◴[24 Jun 25 20:51 UTC] No.44370898[source]▶
The difference between this machine and the ones that came before is that there won’t have to be a human in the loop to execute mass murder.
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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[24 Jun 25 23:07 UTC] No.44372025{3}[source]▶
> there won’t have to be a human in the loop to execute mass murder

This looks like an increasingly theoretical concern. (And probably always has been. Wars were far more brutal when folks fought face to face than they are today.)