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The director of 2004 sci-fi film I, Robot has accused billionaire Elon Musk of copying his designs for humanoid machines and self-driving vehicles.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 hours ago

Looks more like the mitchells vs the machines to me.

Robot pic

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 43 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They look like humans, I don’t Think Irobot invented humans.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I did actually, and I'm suing them.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

checkmate atheists

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 hours ago

gulag for everybody who thinks this is news. The guy is literally a fascist and we are supposed to be angry about how his humanoid robots look kinda human? who tf cares

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Do the eyes glow red if it becomes self aware?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 90 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Much as I hate this guy, guessing he didn't design it and it wouldn't be hard for a humanoid robot to end up looking pretty similar to an I-robot.

Be nice to keep attention to this ass out of the news unless it's raising awareness to the real harm he is doing.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I compared the Cybercab to the I robot car.

They don't share the same design. All lines are different. Maybe the side windows are similar.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 63 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I don't see the connection. The Elonbot is about as generic a humanoid robot design can be and the I, Robot one looks cool, has a face, and isn't controlled by a human as part of some sort of investment con.

The self driving cars has no connection either. The Elonmobile looks like a smooth car and has a degree of autonomous driving and the I, Robot cars look cool, can drive up vertical surfaces, and hardly ever kills their occupants.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago

It's because he called the event 'We, Robot'. So it's fairly obvious that he wants to draw parallels between Tesla's humanoids and the robots within the movie.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, they look nothing alike side by side.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Reminds me of “Detroit: Become Human”.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Lmao...now if Honda or whichever Japanese manufacturer is still regularly pushing these out came out and sued, I'd be more inclined to think they have some weight behind the accusation because I'm sure I've seen something similar before. Then again as others pointed out, they all look similar, even more so once you try to hide the wiring, hydraulics etc

[–] FitzTheBastard@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Humanoid robots look like other humanoid robots? This is a nothing burger.

[–] GrumpyBike1020@monero.town 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sure but did u click thru? The car designs are much more questionable

They're really not. Dude didn't invent wing doors.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Can we get a break from Elon posts in here or is that too much to ask? Guess I’ll just have to turn back on my filter. it’s ridiculous

[–] sepi@piefed.social 13 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

elon doesn't have an original thought

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There are so many reasons to dunk on Elon, but this isn't one of them. Generic looking humanoid robots isn't "ripping off" I, Robot. It's literally the most common depiction of futuristic robots around.

You wanna dunk on Musk? Talk about how his robots were remote controlled with humans talking through them. Talk about how most of his family has disowned him and refuses to have anything to do with him. Talk about how he has Trump's dick firmly in his mouth because he might be in hot water over supplying equipment to Russia and might face prosecution if Trump isn't elected.

But this just screams of low-hanging Musk-bait, where journalists will write anything negative about him knowing that those who have hate-boners for the guy will eat up whatever crap they shit out, even if it doesn't make sense. It's like going "Elon Musk ate cereal for breakfast! What a fucking loser!"

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 7 points 12 hours ago

Using a 2 seater with limited storage space to taxi people around is pretty original. Not good, but original.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world -2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.

Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

from a shitty movie extremely loosely based on good sci-fi

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

Probably grok, another reference to classic scifi he doesn't understand

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

God is suing both

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago

more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

They were humans via remote body anyway. Who cares. Next time they have one of these bullshit demos, ask it a complicated math question like 129473626 * 6363. See how fast they answer then.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

To be fair, if they're driven by an LLM I would still expect it to be wrong.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Amazon mechanical Turk service.

In the future your robot waiter will be a Asian working for 6 cents an hour.