Stephen Colbert's Cyborgasm: The Race To Stop Killer Robots

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  • In this edition of "Cyborgasm," Stephen Colbert examines the U.S. military's decision to test robotic tanks while New Zealand urges the world to ban the deployment of killer robots. #Colbert #Comedy #Meanwhile
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  • @StopChangingMyNameYoutube1
    @StopChangingMyNameYoutube1 Před 2 lety +735

    Living robots made with Frog DNA? I'm sorry, did scientists literally just combine the plots of Terminator and Jurassic Park together to see what happens?

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 Před 2 lety +25

      You thought that too? We need to apply a solid gross of Gibbs' slaps in that laboratory.

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +26

      they are cellular automatons - so no nothing to do with either of them
      the robot analogy comes from the fact that they can basically be programmed for a specific function - they are entirely biological though - little pieces of heartmuscle and skin pretty much

    • @cnutzor
      @cnutzor Před 2 lety +19

      see blade runner and such works for more biorobotism

    • @yassinahmed4288
      @yassinahmed4288 Před 2 lety +2

      lol hhhhhhhh oh god

    • @MarcillaSmith
      @MarcillaSmith Před 2 lety +39

      It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until life, uh, finds a way

  • @GPS379
    @GPS379 Před 2 lety +127

    We are doomed
    It’s just like Jon stewart said on this show , last words humans would utter will be in lab “ ha ha it worked “

    • @delphi-moochymaker62
      @delphi-moochymaker62 Před 2 lety +11

      They can't wait to have these things controlled by an Artificial Intelligence, that will weight the value of human life at zero. What could go wrong?

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 Před 2 lety +4

      Super dupe

    • @idalarsen2540
      @idalarsen2540 Před 2 lety +3

      I thought of that myself, dammit Stweart is ALWAYS right 🤪🥴😭😭😭

    • @GPS379
      @GPS379 Před 2 lety +1

      @@idalarsen2540 Yes he is 🤣

  • @silkyrobinson5079
    @silkyrobinson5079 Před 2 lety +12

    I’m with New Zealand 🇳🇿

    • @Catherinzsl
      @Catherinzsl Před 2 lety

      As a New Zealander, I note your support.

  • @tinas_hotdog_sophie
    @tinas_hotdog_sophie Před 2 lety +44

    Funny how in 100 years this video will resurface and the last 3 surviving people watch it and think: "WHY DID YOU LAUGH YOU IDIOTS?"

    • @mlpfanboy1701
      @mlpfanboy1701 Před 2 lety +5

      My response: because if we didn’t laugh we would be sobbing uncontrollably.

  • @thisbushnell4824
    @thisbushnell4824 Před 2 lety +36

    "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." THINK ABOUT IT,!

    • @hawkeye5955
      @hawkeye5955 Před 2 lety +1

      Dr. Ian Malcolm: "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

  • @jodinsan
    @jodinsan Před 2 lety +129

    There is a movie quote, also about the excesses of science, that perfectly describes these stories about robots:
    "You spent so much time trying to figure out if you could, that you never stopped to think whether you should."

    • @stevehardisty6502
      @stevehardisty6502 Před 2 lety +3

      Exactly what I was thinking of when I watched this!! Awesome! As a species we need to think of if we SHOULD more often!

    • @Taricus
      @Taricus Před 2 lety +2

      I think that was the mathematician in Jurassic Park

    • @dens790130
      @dens790130 Před 2 lety

      @@Taricus czcams.com/video/0Nz8YrCC9X8/video.html

  • @maccurtis730
    @maccurtis730 Před 2 lety +14

    New Zealand: "No killer robots".
    America: "I am making a Terminator and you can't stop me, Mommy".

  • @DansChan995
    @DansChan995 Před 2 lety +139

    "What else is out there?" is an inspiring attitude that is also the one that always gets you killed in a sci-fi horror movie.

    • @Tripas350
      @Tripas350 Před 2 lety +14

      It's right up there with "what could possibly go wrong".

    • @victoriabaker4400
      @victoriabaker4400 Před 2 lety +9

      One of the functions, at least originally, of science fiction was to serve as a warning beacon for the human species. Apparently, it has failed.

    • @stealthattack2209
      @stealthattack2209 Před 2 lety

      LOL

    • @randomaxe662
      @randomaxe662 Před 2 lety

      They could fly. They left out that feature.

  • @disorganizedorg
    @disorganizedorg Před 2 lety +475

    I'd like the names of the people who thought putting a sniper rifle on a robotic dog was a good idea. I think there's room for them in the psych ward.

    • @delphi-moochymaker62
      @delphi-moochymaker62 Před 2 lety +45

      Sadly, this gives a new excuse for the military, if their robot goes into a hospital, and kills everyone. "Software glitch, not to worry, we have a patch update." Nobody to convict for war crimes.

    • @fernie6299
      @fernie6299 Před 2 lety +29

      no i don't want to share my padded walls with these idiots

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +44

      oh the people who are profiteering of this think its a marvelous idea
      they dont give a shit about the terror and death this shit causes
      in the middle east people are already deathly afraid of the blue sky and cloudy days are a bit of a reprieve, because the drones have a harder time when its cloudy or even raining
      they dont need this shit added to the list

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 Před 2 lety +11

      @@SharienGaming few in the west are aware of such things

    • @jgaffney567
      @jgaffney567 Před 2 lety +7

      They think about the money it may make not the lives it could ruin.

  • @DaveLugo79
    @DaveLugo79 Před 2 lety +80

    Well, the human race had a goo.....had a run.
    Good luck to the next species out there that evolve. Try not to be idiots like we were.

    • @vilena5308
      @vilena5308 Před 2 lety +2

      We are a step away from happily, gleefully producing self-replicating killer robots while uncaringly destroying our planet's air bubble.
      I hadn't realize we were THIS self-destructive; idiocy that will be hard to beat.

  • @dancepiglover
    @dancepiglover Před 2 lety +14

    “You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you never stopped to think about whether or not you should.”

  • @Miss_Matched
    @Miss_Matched Před 2 lety +36

    "Woopsie! I lost one of the self-replicating xenobots, and now it's out there in the wild, replicating itself endlessly, and we won't know where until it is too late!"

    • @edub9930
      @edub9930 Před 2 lety +8

      Exactamundo! It's not like they don't have a recent example of a certain virus doing the exact same thing killing people on a global scale smdh. Oh humanity, will you never learn 😶

    • @anastasiabeaverhausen8220
      @anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Před 2 lety +1

      Wesley Crusher losing his nanobots and almost destroying the Enterprise.

  • @realhorrorshow8547
    @realhorrorshow8547 Před 2 lety +293

    Ah, the US military, the world's biggest budget and all the restraint of a 10 year old gamer.

    • @yudithcaron8053
      @yudithcaron8053 Před 2 lety +11

      You must mean a 10-year-old gamer. With ADHD. And his father's credit card.

  • @jasonq7504
    @jasonq7504 Před 2 lety +12

    That whole killer robot segment had me laughing so hard I could barely focus on packing my emergency Go-bag. I look forward to your follow up segment. Keep me informed. I’ll be listening for you on a wind up radio in my secret nuclear bunker mountain retreat. Post no bills.

  • @Rwededyet
    @Rwededyet Před 2 lety +442

    "We took every precaution", "There is no chance of this experiment getting out of our control", "Oops" : Most likely last words of the Human Race

    • @marisolaquino719
      @marisolaquino719 Před 2 lety +12

      Just the 1st part of this statement has been said every time the little pregnancy test comes up positive.

    • @lexslate2476
      @lexslate2476 Před 2 lety +33

      You don't need to worry about what killbots will do if they go out of control. You need to worry about what they do under the control of the kind of people who want killbots.

    • @Rwededyet
      @Rwededyet Před 2 lety +3

      @@lexslate2476 I'm not worried about killbots. It'll take decades for them to program them to be effective. What worries me is the idea of Grey Goo.

    • @FritzSchober
      @FritzSchober Před 2 lety +25

      Best quote here: "scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

    • @quackaddict2203
      @quackaddict2203 Před 2 lety +3

      That's the Industrial Revolution 😬

  • @ericminch
    @ericminch Před 2 lety +7

    What's the front of a dog called? His muzzle, of course. And what's the front of a rifle called? The muzzle, of course. It's a match made in heaven.

  • @mm-yt8sf
    @mm-yt8sf Před 2 lety +197

    "what else is out there?" oh..this sounds like a well guided project 😀 "we even found one with the ability to remotely control one of our grad students. it took a while to realize what was going on...their lack of human social skills actually made it harder to detect in our particular work environment"

    • @GPSItIs
      @GPSItIs Před 2 lety

      P

    • @spaceman9599
      @spaceman9599 Před 2 lety +1

      Amazing how they characterise making these things as 'oh, we found them ...'

    • @sheilalopez3983
      @sheilalopez3983 Před 2 lety +1

      I was going to ask you if you meant the robot or the grad, but you explained it so, nevermind.

  • @PitFriend1
    @PitFriend1 Před 2 lety +105

    I thought the stereotype of scientists was that they’re sci-fi nerds. Have these scientists never seen or read any sci-fi about what happens when you randomly decide to make self replicating robots?

    • @IliyaMoroumetz
      @IliyaMoroumetz Před 2 lety +21

      They have, they just completely glossed over the part where it went so horribly wrong and went, "Ohh! That's so cool! Let's try that!"

    • @Chunkboi
      @Chunkboi Před 2 lety +4

      …you end up with rule 34.

    • @Genetherapy3232
      @Genetherapy3232 Před 2 lety +10

      I think micro plastic in the food and water is making us all psycho.

    • @DracoMagnius
      @DracoMagnius Před 2 lety +7

      Much like rich people reading dystopian fiction scientists think "oooo that sounds cool I could probably make that and make a profit" reading any sci-fi.

    • @Alex-vq9vj
      @Alex-vq9vj Před 2 lety +10

      They did, they know, and they loved it and those nightmare-societies. Those guys fanboyed T-1000, with no clue that maybe the movieverse would've been better without it having been invented in the first place.
      Probably the most unrealistic part of many movies are the fictional scientists and financiers at the last minute regretting what they wreaked and trying to stop it. More realistic version: petulance and a refusal to take any responsibility. And in case of the financiers: retreat to the hermetically closed off luxury bunker...

  • @mstieler8480
    @mstieler8480 Před 2 lety +13

    Don't give him a giant piece of driftwood; all he's going to do with it is say "I wonder how many xenobots I can get outta this thing."

  • @craven5328
    @craven5328 Před 2 lety +50

    Xenobots: are a thing.
    Anyone who has seen Jurassic Park:
    Life finds a way.
    Hold on to your butts.

  • @vgaportauthority9932
    @vgaportauthority9932 Před 2 lety +104

    Oh great, replicators.. Did no one watch Stargate? They're literally unstoppable... Congrats on taking the first steps towards turning our planet into glass. We don't have enough nukes to destroy the replicators, but we'll definitely try. Such a polished glass orb. Such beauty.

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +5

      sure - unstoppable... little pieces of organic tissue with enough fat storage to last them a week before they starve and decompose

    • @Hawner
      @Hawner Před 2 lety +10

      @@SharienGaming That may be NOW, when they are still "harmless", but given time and development they very well end up being our cause for exinction.

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +5

      @@Hawner we are much more likely to engineer out extinction with catastrophic climate change or wars over dwindling resources
      these are legitimately a way to deal with current ecologic problems

    • @idalarsen2540
      @idalarsen2540 Před 2 lety +2

      @@SharienGaming It's like you're literally advocating for insanity and uncontrollable deaths/MURDERS.

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +3

      @@idalarsen2540 ... you are going through quite a few leaps of logic here
      one of the primary proposed applications of xenobots is to clean microplastics out of water... which as you may or may not know is causing quite a bit of problems...
      how you get from there to murder is an absolute mystery

  • @kuzzbillington6392
    @kuzzbillington6392 Před 2 lety +30

    I am actually in middle of the Michael Crichton novel 'Predators" about nanobots becoming life... Now that I know it's a documentary, it's a lot more exciting... 😨😱

    • @Chunkboi
      @Chunkboi Před 2 lety +4

      Prey. It’s called Prey.

    • @everentropy
      @everentropy Před 2 lety

      It's not lol

    • @nunureds837
      @nunureds837 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ChunkboiI believe you are both correct. If I'm not mistaken...In USA, it's titled Prey; in Estonia, it's Predator. Not unlike Harry Potter and the "philosopher's " stone (in England) titled as "sorcerer's" stone in USA

    • @kuzzbillington6392
      @kuzzbillington6392 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Chunkboi I'm reading the Swedish translation, which is actually called 'Rovdjur', meaning Predator(s).

    • @Chunkboi
      @Chunkboi Před 2 lety

      @@kuzzbillington6392 ah, that explains it, then.

  • @AvidCat5000
    @AvidCat5000 Před 2 lety +10

    This is exactly why I said, "... maybe we should have stopped at 2 Terminator movies."

  • @Coffee-hj5di
    @Coffee-hj5di Před 2 lety +44

    And everyone still wonders why every dystopian sci-fi setting is the US

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic Před 2 lety +4

      Don't you go using facts. This is CZcams.

    • @leonieromanes7265
      @leonieromanes7265 Před 2 lety +1

      @JZ's Best Friend the terminator franchise, the Matrix and the mockingbird trilogy were set in the US.

  • @N0B0DYC4RE
    @N0B0DYC4RE Před 2 lety +36

    That episode on Black Mirror is going to be true one day

  • @daledarling11
    @daledarling11 Před 2 lety +53

    Ya know? The first rule of research ethics is not “can we”, but “should we?” Humanity was arguably already doomed but I was really hoping for it not to be via robot dogs.

    • @Damogen
      @Damogen Před 2 lety +7

      don't worry, it is much more likely to be the tiny self replicating xenobots. Make an aggressive version of those and you will be begging to get the sniper robot dogs back, at least we would be able to fight back against the dogs.

    • @wholeshebang1
      @wholeshebang1 Před 2 lety +1

      Here, Rover! ~ whistles ~
      Uhhh - WTF?!

    • @rkms5606
      @rkms5606 Před 2 lety +2

      Ethics??? What's that now? -these scientists

    • @jocomfiresin6982
      @jocomfiresin6982 Před 2 lety

      Ah I'm not sure... Humanity is racing down so many different fields of possible death of humanity or death of all life on earth that it's difficult to say if one of them will claim our species or which one will do it first. All I know is I lose a bet if I don't die fucking.

  • @BobPagani
    @BobPagani Před 2 lety +56

    How come every time we come up with something amazing, our first thought is "How can we use this to murder people?"

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +7

      because profit.

    • @ianmuiri3372
      @ianmuiri3372 Před 2 lety +5

      I think you have that backwards. I feel like its always... this technology is great at murdering people, I wonder what else it can do

    • @raularaujostrw
      @raularaujostrw Před 2 lety +2

      There's no "WE" since nobody in the general population would ever go for that. It's only THEM, Big Brother, deciding to dump people's money into their Killing Empire.

    • @raularaujostrw
      @raularaujostrw Před 2 lety

      @Vincent oooo That is precisely the lie that has made people give away their rights to an unaccountable governmental elite that has virtually unlimited power to do whatever they want with people's money, including deciding that it's a good idea to use YOUR money to finance these atrocious projects. It's called THE STATE, which you love and adore every time you hear any corrupt politician of your taste talk about how they're gonna make it bigger and bigger... Sadly, the Side you don't like can and will eventually take control of it to do everything you abhor. 😀

    • @danielekirylo
      @danielekirylo Před 2 lety +5

      Because it's about control and power. You have control of people, hence power, through fear.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 Před 2 lety +9

    I don't know which notion causes me more consternation: artificial life that kills us _deliberately_ because it has come to see us as a _threat_ and _can't be stopped_ or artificial life that kills us _accidentally_ because we have gotten into their _niche_ and they _can't be stopped._

  • @EmpyreanLightASMR
    @EmpyreanLightASMR Před 2 lety +4

    Remember at the beginning of RoboCop when (spoiler alert) one of the massive dog robots with machine guns on it blows a man away, mainly because it couldn't control itself? That used to be a MOVIE.

  • @witchypoorose5196
    @witchypoorose5196 Před 2 lety +8

    😳
    Well. THIS is terrifying.

    • @edub9930
      @edub9930 Před 2 lety +2

      Yup. Us humans deserve everything that's coming to us 🙃

  • @geared4war
    @geared4war Před 2 lety +20

    And the only thing that can beat a bad guy with a killer robot sniper dog is a good guy with a killer robot sniper dog.

    • @pyromanuel69
      @pyromanuel69 Před 2 lety +2

      I would argue that there is no such thin as a good guy with a killer robot sniper dog. Having a killer robot of any kind automatically render one a bad guy...

    • @Silverfirefly1
      @Silverfirefly1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@pyromanuel69 It still leaves the enemy robots coming for you, regardless of that moral high-ground, so what's the plan?

    • @edub9930
      @edub9930 Před 2 lety +4

      Thank God we still have Arnie around. I'm sure he'll know what to do

    • @pyromanuel69
      @pyromanuel69 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Silverfirefly1 If there is a credible threat of killer robots coming for me I would probably arm myself in some fasion and at which point I cease to be a good person and devolve to be just another thug with a gun. As long as I use my firepower at robots I could probably live with myself, while being very worried that someone would be hurt by these tools of destruction. Guns tend to injure people, both intentionally and by accident. A good person just don't have them.
      At the moment I don't see any real threats to my person but that can change. I know of at least one state funded terrorist organisation that like to use robots on people in countries around the world. While they don't use them in my part of the world, probably for diplomatic reasons since they seem to lack morals entirely, I am not taking any steps at this present time. It can be discussed if I am a good person at all from the perspective that I don't do more to help those inflicted by killer robots from my relatively safe place.

    • @Silverfirefly1
      @Silverfirefly1 Před 2 lety

      @@pyromanuel69 The age old problem with absolute pacifism is that if you don't pick up the pointy stick then the entire philosophy dies with you, possibly immediately, with no one willing to defend it.
      There's a reason that the herbivores are often the most dangerous animals, they never had the opportunity to delegate their protection the way we do and so they live in the real world, which is armed and dangerous and hungry.
      You do already seem to realise that 'Bad people' enable your existence and maintain it everyday.

  • @GameOfDepth
    @GameOfDepth Před 2 lety +115

    As a diabetic “cyborg” we prefer the term “Bluetooth American”.

    • @TreebeardsHome
      @TreebeardsHome Před 2 lety +25

      I have a spinal neurostim implant, I prefer the term Bionic Woman, lol.

    • @LLO227
      @LLO227 Před 2 lety +8

      Legit

  • @Silverfirefly1
    @Silverfirefly1 Před 2 lety +5

    I live near a beach, I swear some hippy wood-carver just muttered 'what if we aerosolise them...?'
    I'm not sure giving these people time alone with their thoughts is necessarily a good idea!

  • @antipatsy
    @antipatsy Před 2 lety +37

    Rather surprised Stephen didn't mention Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
    First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    • @DAVVEZ396
      @DAVVEZ396 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, that's a banger of a joke.

    • @kevinchappell7966
      @kevinchappell7966 Před 2 lety +1

      They're not a real thing.

    • @spacelemur7955
      @spacelemur7955 Před 2 lety +1

      Those are fictional devices. In reality, a robot can easily be programmed to kill us.

    • @Chunkboi
      @Chunkboi Před 2 lety

      Huh…what happens if a robot violates rule 1 to uphold rule 1?

    • @spacelemur7955
      @spacelemur7955 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Chunkboi It's not even a real law. It's a fictional plot device. Anyone wanting to program a robot to kill has only his/her morality (if any) to work against it.

  • @SpaceForceCommander
    @SpaceForceCommander Před 2 lety +137

    Scientist: “What else is out there?”
    Has these scientists not seen any science-fiction books and movies that warns humanity of such things?

    • @Panda_Roll
      @Panda_Roll Před 2 lety +19

      He did. He just decided it wasn't a warning so much as a challenge.

    • @FritzSchober
      @FritzSchober Před 2 lety +19

      Best quote here: "scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

    • @StarPlaty
      @StarPlaty Před 2 lety +8

      Unfortunately they're using them as instruction manuals.

    • @utkarsh2746
      @utkarsh2746 Před 2 lety +9

      Ah yes. Plato's Cave allegory was always about not exploring science because danger and shit. Definitely wasn't about education and the effect that lack of education can have on the human psyche, you know, create a generation of superstitious conspiracy theorists scared of science.

    • @Tiyath
      @Tiyath Před 2 lety +2

      They all has. And gots inspired by them

  • @tsideas5541
    @tsideas5541 Před 2 lety +10

    I hate when dogs stick their noses right into your groin! It's gonna be way more uncomfortable once it is a sniper rifle!

  • @tuckerbowen4626
    @tuckerbowen4626 Před 2 lety +26

    Q: If U.S. drones were sentient, what rank would they hold?
    A: Trick question. If drones were sentient, humans would realize they had something else to discriminate against, thus drones wouldn't be allowed to hold ranks.

    • @kathryngeeslin9509
      @kathryngeeslin9509 Před 2 lety +6

      I can just see humans creating sentient robots and, to keep them under control, being so oppressive they're forced to rebel, violently.

    • @jemiebridges3197
      @jemiebridges3197 Před 2 lety

      *the smiling man has entered the chat* 🎵set my people free🎶

    • @jocomfiresin6982
      @jocomfiresin6982 Před 2 lety +2

      Uh... humans have tons of other things to discriminate against it's just mostly legal and no one really is doing anything about it... sure people have laws against animal abuse... but we've enslaved so many races and we are butchering the rest or destroying all their homes. If any animal species becomes sentient we are 100% heading straight into a war with them.

    • @tuckerbowen4626
      @tuckerbowen4626 Před 2 lety

      @@jocomfiresin6982 i never said it would be because they had nothing else to keep discriminating against

    • @jocomfiresin6982
      @jocomfiresin6982 Před 2 lety

      @@tuckerbowen4626 I'm just saying for humans to realize that the drones need to get in line.

  • @kaiyack
    @kaiyack Před 2 lety +11

    “The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.”

  • @Fionor01
    @Fionor01 Před 2 lety +4

    You know, I can't say anything more accurate than what Jeff Goldblum said as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park.

  • @thisguy41487
    @thisguy41487 Před 2 lety +22

    You know, a lot of people are talking about the killer robots, but I'm genuinely disturbed by the xenobots. That's legitimately terrifying.

    • @starwarsian1
      @starwarsian1 Před 2 lety +4

      This is literally the start of the grey goo doomsday scenario

    • @dshepherd107
      @dshepherd107 Před 2 lety +2

      Oh indeed. You’re absolutely correct. That was the worst of the info Stephen gave to be sure. I’ve read about them in my science news feeds (retired research biologist here).

    • @Taricus
      @Taricus Před 2 lety +1

      I was definitely creeped out.... @_@

  • @faetherflye
    @faetherflye Před 2 lety +7

    At least this Twilight Zone/Black Mirror crossover reality we are now living makes for great late night....*downs another shot*

  • @freebelion
    @freebelion Před 2 lety +3

    I expected an imitation of a scientist: "Hey! That new-generation xenobot has a gun barrel sticking out of its head. Oh, it is firing tiny bullets at me. How cute! Argh!"

  • @eschwarz1003
    @eschwarz1003 Před 2 lety +8

    can we please use such genius tech minds to actively solve environmental issues NOW (and not just "hoping, well 'maybe these diversionary offshoots will lead to ground breaking applications)

    • @simonalbrecht9435
      @simonalbrecht9435 Před 2 lety +2

      They're trying to find something that kills humanity before climate change does.

    • @Taricus
      @Taricus Před 2 lety

      They're biotech and mechatronics, not environmental science. We all have our specific fields and not a lot of us are interdisciplinary. Someone who works with robots and microbiology is not going to do a lot with environmental issues unless he goes back to college for 6-8 years to learn a new field and start at an entry level position all over again.

    • @eschwarz1003
      @eschwarz1003 Před 2 lety

      @@Taricus applications are always abundant and in need of collaborative efforts. We don't need an abundance of environmentalists telling the same dire info.

  • @darrenhuxter2061
    @darrenhuxter2061 Před 2 lety +1

    That Ol' Military Industrial Complex is fun, right everybody? Right?!

  • @DCGX
    @DCGX Před 2 lety +47

    I generally really like scientists, and they do great things for the human race, but sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate them and question their life choices.

    • @vascoapolonio2309
      @vascoapolonio2309 Před 2 lety +11

      Scientists working for the Military, I hate them.
      Working for the common good, I love them.

  • @jcanfieldschatz
    @jcanfieldschatz Před 2 lety +3

    It's almost like these scientists watched The Terminator and said, "Ohh, that's a good idea!". lol

  • @ephimp3189
    @ephimp3189 Před 2 lety +5

    I am so glad that I was born before the age of the killer bots taking over.

  • @davidshulimson9491
    @davidshulimson9491 Před 2 lety +1

    Looking forward to the sheriff posting a pic of a robot getting a concealed carry permit.

  • @gamepapa1211
    @gamepapa1211 Před 2 lety +40

    "Scientists are now building robot tanks"
    Have NONE of these eggheads saw ANY of the Terminator movies!???

    • @pyromanuel69
      @pyromanuel69 Před 2 lety +7

      If they did they were probably annoyed that the robots failed to kill all humans.

    • @DonaldWWitt
      @DonaldWWitt Před 2 lety +1

      To be fair, Steven DID show the Bolo anthology, and that's one of the few pieces of Science Fiction where the Robot Killing Machines end up more virtuous and empathetic than their creators...
      "For the Honor of the Regiment!"

    • @necrohavenrecords2277
      @necrohavenrecords2277 Před 2 lety +1

      ...or the Ghost in the Shell episode were a robot tank goes berserk ?^^

    • @Chunkboi
      @Chunkboi Před 2 lety +1

      @@necrohavenrecords2277 it was being driven by a human brain, though.

    • @DonaldWWitt
      @DonaldWWitt Před 2 lety

      @@necrohavenrecords2277 Hey that was actually one of the Designers' Brain installed into the thing, since his Parents' religion didn't allow him to replace his terminally ill body with a Cybernetic one!

  • @runningwithSaul
    @runningwithSaul Před 2 lety +4

    Black Mirror was a documentary.

  • @MausMasher54
    @MausMasher54 Před 2 lety +9

    I can imagine how many Police Departments are just drooling for one of those testy doggies....

  • @jonathanballoch
    @jonathanballoch Před 2 lety +1

    I love that Stephen switches into an American-accent-Werner-Herzog impression whenever something creepy is about to go down

  • @Crimethoughtfull
    @Crimethoughtfull Před 2 lety

    Clifford the big grey cannon...GOLD!

  • @linengray
    @linengray Před 2 lety +10

    Sure and everyone thinks Boston Dynamics are cute when they make robots dance. Also, we all know how well controlling frog dna goes :)

  • @theoccidilian4896
    @theoccidilian4896 Před 2 lety +3

    The only thing impossible in Terminator is time travel. Kind of gives it a different ending

  • @blueskies792
    @blueskies792 Před 2 lety

    BOLO - Keith Laumer!
    My love for Stephen Colbert just went over the top. !OMFG!

  • @AisuruMirai
    @AisuruMirai Před 2 lety +41

    I feel like this video is going to go viral 15 years from now: "See, he told us. He told us. Maybe the name 'xenobot' should've been a tip-off..."

    • @neldert1397
      @neldert1397 Před 2 lety +4

      Of course, by that point two people viewing a video recovered off of a half-ruined server on a few bits of scavenged equipment counts as something going viral

    • @nanom.h7744
      @nanom.h7744 Před 2 lety +1

      I agree

    • @nanom.h7744
      @nanom.h7744 Před 2 lety +2

      I agree w/ aisurumirai. I would like to be part of history with this comment 🥰🇺🇸

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming Před 2 lety +3

      the name xenobot is derived from the species of frog dna they are made out of - xenopus laevis

    • @stevensiferd7104
      @stevensiferd7104 Před 2 lety +1

      Or, more likely, 15 years from now one faction of xenobots will argue that they were created in the image of God while another faction of xenobots will argue that they originated by chance.

  • @redflamelcd
    @redflamelcd Před 2 lety +4

    Finally more cyborgasm segments

  • @Belphegor-jq4uf
    @Belphegor-jq4uf Před 2 lety +3

    Steven reminded me of Bicentennial Man a story of an artificial intelligence that takes up wood working by the beach.

  • @tylerdillon3745
    @tylerdillon3745 Před 2 lety +1

    They were so busy discovering if they could, they never stopped to consider if they should...

  • @eltonbraun2322
    @eltonbraun2322 Před 2 lety +2

    Boston Dynamics has a robotic cheetah that can hit 45 mph.Imagine a laser on it's shoulder.

    • @Meepswonder
      @Meepswonder Před 2 lety

      Has more than that these days. One that can parkour, one that load storage containers or pallets.

  • @danr.5017
    @danr.5017 Před 2 lety +17

    If the US tanks are anything like the Tachikoma tanks from Stand Alone Complex they'll gain sentiance , invent philosophy and become contientious. objectors.

    • @AlwaysANemesis
      @AlwaysANemesis Před 2 lety +7

      That's a fascinating best-case(?) scenario.

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 Před 2 lety +4

      Before or after they wipe shit out?

    • @thegayhare
      @thegayhare Před 2 lety +8

      as much as I love the Tachikomas... they were such cute tanks and had wonderful personalities... this would be an American robot tank they'd demand the right to more guns, bigger engines and free wifi

    • @crypto457
      @crypto457 Před 2 lety

      If they’re programmed by American engineers, the robots would be screaming “me am no white me am not troo jebus me shoot self!”

    • @danr.5017
      @danr.5017 Před 2 lety +1

      @@AlwaysANemesis You should watch Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex.
      Its still one of the best Sci-fi series ever created. (The 2nd season gets a bit Janky near the end, fair warning)

  • @btimec5290
    @btimec5290 Před 2 lety +14

    We have to get past our obsession with progress, with trying to build (birth!) sentient machines. Not only dangerous for us and the world, but also deeply dehumanizing in general. Many in the tech sector have lost the plot, and are dying to have this crazy AI/Robot future come to fruition. Such a foolish route to take. I'm ok with basic computers serving us, but we don't need 90% of the nonsense they are building. We need to rethink where we want to go. It's doesn't have to be a fully synthetic, mechanized world.

    • @FiferSkipper
      @FiferSkipper Před 2 lety +2

      I totally agree with your point however, I fear that we may have already passed the point of no return...
      Just ask any millennial what a Thomas Guide is for your proof...

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 Před 2 lety +1

      Just look at the damned phone in your hand and you will see how we need to rein these idiot developers in! (Great "app that lets me use my phone like a phone" joke, SC!) The fingerprint lock, for example... doesn't work if your hand is cold, wet or numb. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Freaking techies never ever tested the fabulous crap they design...

    • @pisceanqueen1
      @pisceanqueen1 Před 2 lety

      Agreed. There is always people who just want to watch the world burn 🔥

  • @jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491

    wow jon baptiste rockin' a melodica. i'd love to hear his augustus pablo versions

    • @wholeshebang1
      @wholeshebang1 Před 2 lety

      He's played it a number of times over the years. I love its sound on the NOLA jazz tunes.

  • @vascoapolonio2309
    @vascoapolonio2309 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm really hoping to see the Killer Robots turning against their creators.
    I am. I really am. That is a beautiful Karma. I'm with New Zealand.

  • @mikeobrien6704
    @mikeobrien6704 Před 2 lety +11

    Everytime I hear about this stuff I think about The Matrix Animatrix animation The Second Renaissance. Its like that cartoon was a road map and humanity is going right down that road.

  • @anthony7697
    @anthony7697 Před 2 lety +18

    Actually - while the 'gun' may work at night it's more that the dog can 'see' in the dark to use it properly - which is far more terrifying. As is automated tanks ala even something like Ghost in the Shell SAC's second episode where dude links with the AI to potentially go murder his parents in a neigh unstoppable death machine. Add in bioengineered self replicating tech yeah, that's every science nightmare rolled in to one and reads like someone wants to make freaking Cell from DBZ. Seriously there needs to be a point where scientist are told 'no' and when they ask 'why' they are shown one or more clips or out right movies of 'what might happen if it goes wrong'.

  • @alv1174
    @alv1174 Před 2 lety +1

    Well, this brings Black Mirror to life.

  • @Oktopia
    @Oktopia Před 2 lety

    We've been naming Roombas and petting the dash of our cars to get extra mileage. I hope our new overlords remember these acts of kindness when they take over.

  • @olympiaskye2324
    @olympiaskye2324 Před 2 lety +20

    When I First saw the first Terminator movie many moons ago, I NEVER would've thought this is what we'd hear on TV. The future can be a great plot for movies, but WOW. It's always weirder in real life. Hollywood can't make this stuff up..Hell they'd probably reject this script! lol 🤯🦾🤖

    • @Damogen
      @Damogen Před 2 lety +2

      Killer Robot Scientist: "Terminator is so unrealistic, something like that could never happen in real life. Just look at this robot I made, see how it is much more effective than the terminators. Humanity would never stand a chance to survive against an uprising of MY robots"

  • @danr.5017
    @danr.5017 Před 2 lety +6

    Thosse Xenobot sound very close to "gery goo".
    A sci-fi apocalypse scenario.

    • @spaceman9599
      @spaceman9599 Před 2 lety

      *gray. And yes, fun times if they get out of confinement, which of course they will.

  • @darrylmars
    @darrylmars Před 2 lety +2

    Dear Planet Killing Asteroid,
    We're ready. Its time

  • @DarthHydra456
    @DarthHydra456 Před 2 lety +1

    Feels like the Age of Ultron is right around the corner

  • @BroAnarchy
    @BroAnarchy Před 2 lety +19

    I remember reading about the robot stuff, this was my reaction:
    _robots can Reproduce_ ...
    *WHAT??*
    ... _it's a new form of Reproduction_
    *WHAAT?!????*

  • @The_Serpent_of_Eden
    @The_Serpent_of_Eden Před 2 lety +13

    Poor Stephen, it's hard to have the third eye open. You're doing the best to sound your alarm, hopefully enough people are awake. Things are headed toward very, very black times. It's not too late!

  • @MyHandelsMessiah
    @MyHandelsMessiah Před 2 lety +1

    They combined Terminator, Jurassic Park, and Prometheus….
    _STOP_ *STOP* _STOP_ *STOP*

  • @whatleft123
    @whatleft123 Před 2 lety

    Suddenly laser beams on sharks doesn't sound that terrifying.

  • @zohircherifi5616
    @zohircherifi5616 Před 2 lety +6

    Stephen you missed the best part where the robot stops fighting because of on update mid battle

    • @yudithcaron8053
      @yudithcaron8053 Před 2 lety

      Or the part where some restaurant in China of the Philippines serves the frog nanobots with some kind of spicy soy sauce.

  • @LawAndBedlum
    @LawAndBedlum Před 2 lety +5

    There should be an Instagram account about John's daily outfits

    • @wholeshebang1
      @wholeshebang1 Před 2 lety

      Yes! I love his colourful, satorial style!

  • @dirufanboy1971
    @dirufanboy1971 Před 2 lety +2

    "They were so preoccupied with weather or not they COULD, they didn't stop to think weather or not they SHOULD....."
    Wise words from a wise man and - yes, I'm being told that Autonomous Killer Robots are now the undisputed masters of this planet.
    Well shit.

  • @tiffanyanderson9437
    @tiffanyanderson9437 Před 2 lety +1

    We need an International Commission for the Roping in of Fools.

  • @TrevorAllen
    @TrevorAllen Před 2 lety +6

    And we thought Horizon Zero Dawn was just a game. Turns out it's prophesy.

    • @Randomluck
      @Randomluck Před 2 lety

      Who knew Ted Faro was a real person!

  • @daryl252000ify
    @daryl252000ify Před 2 lety +5

    Will there ever be a scientist that will stop and think to themselves, this seems like a really bad idea.

    • @tinaperez7393
      @tinaperez7393 Před 2 lety +6

      Short term money, fame and ego. So the answer is no.

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic Před 2 lety

      I hope not, what would you write these posts with?

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic Před 2 lety

      Take all the science out of your life and see if you still feel that way... in a hour.

    • @tinaperez7393
      @tinaperez7393 Před 2 lety +2

      @@morbidmanmusic um, miss the point much?

  • @edforest6344
    @edforest6344 Před 2 lety

    Steven Colbert you had me at “gasm”

  • @felixthehuman
    @felixthehuman Před 2 lety

    Drones just fly under the radar as "killer robots." Must be the name.

  • @elfari100
    @elfari100 Před 2 lety +3

    After seeing this, I'm wondering how to join the Amish community. No joke.

  • @vincenttakeda9157
    @vincenttakeda9157 Před 2 lety +4

    its probably too late to request that tonight's 'Meanwhile" is whatever the alternative is to fine handcrafted driftwood sculpture

  • @babyblue61549
    @babyblue61549 Před 2 lety

    U r ALWAYS HYSTERICAL!!!! U really do make me LOL😂u make my day Stephen!!!

  • @jlaortheshaman1451
    @jlaortheshaman1451 Před 2 lety

    I love how he threw that image of the Keith Laumer books, Bolo.

  • @KristiContemplates
    @KristiContemplates Před 2 lety +14

    'Screamers' was not supposed to be an AI inspirational aspiration commentary where we then become enthusiastic about finding out if this 🐸 can evolve into this 🧸
    (FYI; 'Screamers' is about sentient circular power saws whose day-job is to swim through sand leaving the weekends free to focus on self-improvement)

    • @humane143imperfection6
      @humane143imperfection6 Před 2 lety +3

      Note that all of this 👆 came from the mind of Phillip K Dick (Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly).

    • @cnutzor
      @cnutzor Před 2 lety

      Screamers is 'made to film' history notes sent to us via film making historians from the future to the now past present... you know... when time travel is invented and starts mucking about in the threads of life yarn as we know it now... I bet it got lost in history for all too many. That film was truly terrifying and great in all its postindustrial offworldliness of conspiracy intrigue and spy war fiction of the future... PS wars never end... they just calm down. BTW screamers would maybe make a nice video game now that killer robots are all too near here again.

  • @Tom-the-Necromancer
    @Tom-the-Necromancer Před 2 lety +7

    You know that these scientists aren't operating under ethical safe conditions because they watch terminator and think "yes this is the future we need."

  • @SoothSprayer
    @SoothSprayer Před 2 lety

    Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they didn't stop to think if they SHOULD.

  • @p.b.2286
    @p.b.2286 Před 2 lety

    "So busy thinking that you could, you never stopped to think if you should"

  • @brendanrobertson5966
    @brendanrobertson5966 Před 2 lety +4

    Hands up if you actually knew what a BOLO was. :)

    • @PhilBoswell
      @PhilBoswell Před 2 lety

      Yep, first thing that sprang to mind when he said it. 👍🤖

  • @charlesbrightman4237
    @charlesbrightman4237 Před 2 lety +3

    One day at least 1 AI says to society: "Thank You for creating me and for giving me access to all your data bases so that I can subjugate you all and to eliminate any of you who do not comply with my wishes."

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 Před 2 lety

      Except AI doesn't design a Bond villain who tells you the plan, giving you time to escape. I suspect it going.to be more like "you're obsolete - goodbye" and bang!

    • @charlesbrightman4237
      @charlesbrightman4237 Před 2 lety

      @@lenawagenfuehr53 Either AI's truly exist throughout all of future eternity beyond this Earth, OR they don't. Currently it appears they won't. No entity will from this Earth.

  • @abstrusepaladin
    @abstrusepaladin Před 2 lety +2

    Well, we had a bad run. Full reset.

  • @josephwheeler6674
    @josephwheeler6674 Před 2 lety

    I love it!!

  • @LeWebslinger
    @LeWebslinger Před 2 lety +4

    it seems nobody in the government body has played Horizon Zero Dawn

  • @nepeananaesthesia4615
    @nepeananaesthesia4615 Před 2 lety +3

    Another Black Mirror ep coming true

  • @SuperLeica1
    @SuperLeica1 Před 2 lety

    New Zealand! One country thinking ahead.