#general atomics

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

My personal headcanon as to why assaultrons only show up in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 is that they were still very much a prototype robot that House was making and despite it's blaster head was nowhere near as advance as a mark 2 securitron

He used data from the assaultrons and sentry bots to make the mark 2 OS for the securitrons and views all other robots that he made as inferior in comparison to securitrons

He initially made the assaultrons to combat General Atomics' Mr. Gutsy but the reason why assaultrons were never widely used by The US Military is because House became to absorbed with Vegas to get assaultrons used nation wide

[typosandtea]

I haven’t finished falloutober day 10 yet sorry! so here is a bit of unfinished comic instead featuring Sweetwater from fallout 76.

[vault-tec-official]

We tried to have a Mr. Handy work the same job as one of our highly-trained managers, but it was mysteriously found in disrepair from a self-destruct sequence only 2 minutes after the start of its position. Guess some jobs are better for humans after all!

[twosides--samecoin]

Frankly it is a personal slight I have an assignment due at the same time I desperately want to sink my teeth into making screenshots so here's a General Atomics/Mister Handy headcanon nobody asked for:

Before the bombs, Nora had a Mister Client module installed for Codsworth. It was client management software developed for law firms and produced by General Atomics for the Mister Handy line.

This rendered paralegals and attorneys having to handle their own time docketing, billing and scheduling obsolete as a Mister Handy could perform these duties faster and with much more accuracy.

At the time of the bombs, General Atomics was working on software to support a Mister Handy working in court. Trial runs with a Mister Handy acting as state's attorney produced mixed results - while lightning-fast searches through law history, each court case and outcome plus precedent and citations were possible in real-time, an incident wherein a Mister Handy's jet propulsion system accidentally set a court house on fire occurred when the robotic attorney could not easily pass through the wooden bar and fell over.

[nocternalrandomness]

Stormy sunset at Creech AFB, Nevada

[nightingaelic]

Vaultoween 2022 No. 23: "Maid"

You should definitely buy one, I hear they last FOREVER!

[robcosposts]

Here’s more of our new station is general atomics using child labor from foreign nations to make its products!?! no!!!!

(Sponsored by General atomics)



[purkinje-effect]

"glaze recipe not found. replacing with similar word: gauze"

[defencestar]

The US Air Force Gears Up for Next-Gen Air Combat with GA-ASI and Anduril

The US Air Force Gears Up for Next-Gen Air Combat with GA-ASI and Anduril #India #defence #defense #USA #GeneralAtomics #GASI #AndurilIndustries #Anduril #CCA #airforce #defencenews

US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) project: The future of air combat took a significant step forward with the US Air Force‘s selection of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and Anduril to develop and manufacture Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes. This program aims to revolutionize aerial warfare by deploying fleets of low-cost, modular, and highly…

[defencecapital]

Interview: General Atomics ties up with Indian firms, plans more partnerships to boost business

Interview: General Atomics ties up with Indian firms, plans more partnerships to boost business

In an interview ahead of DefExpo-2022, General Atomics Global Corporation chief executive Dr Vivek Lall tells our editor N. C. Bipindra that the American firm is continuing its discussions with the Indian government on procurement programmes, both in the Aeronautical Systems and the Energy and Electromagnetic Systems divisions for potential business opportunities. Q. Kindly provide an overview…

[jetline-marvel-blog-blog]

India's $3 Billion MQ-9 Reaper Drones Deal With US In Advanced Stage

India’s $3 Billion MQ-9 Reaper Drones Deal With US In Advanced Stage

The UAV aircraft, which is one of the best strategic game changers, is the war’s next frontier. Currently, India is reportedly buying 30 MQ-9B Predator armed drones that were produced in the US. There are six various variants of the aircraft depending on their operational capabilities, however, only a small number of UAVs created in the USA are offered for export to other nations. The MQ-9B is…

[cryptvokeeper]

Also idk maybe it was too subtle but. when oppenheimers wife takes him by the shoulders and says, “stop trying to make people pity you for the sins you committed” like. I just kind of figured that was a pretty explicit indictment of his actions and makes me struggle to take the “Oppenheimer is just a movie about a sad white mans feelings” arguments in good faith.

[vault-tec-official]

do you guys make robots or does robco only do that

While that's not our company's primary specialty, we have done some dabbling strictly for enforcing security in our vaults. RobCo. and General Atomics are the main robotics experts, however. We appreciate all of the work they do!

[theminecraftbee]

incidentally, for anyone wondering about the current state of me playing vault hunters: I’ve been playing on a server with some friends for a few months and am level 89, have several absurdly expensive endgame items unlocked, and am going “I mean I technically don’t NEED a fission reactor, but I feel like there’s a point in every bee’s life where really, why not harness the unlimited power of nuclear energy?”

[nocternalrandomness]

MQ-9 Reaper UAV flies a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range

[maxwellatoms]

Do you think the new division of Cartoon Network Studios will end up exploiting and abusing AI to make new cartoons of their old properties?

I wouldn't put it past any studio to do this.

We're at the end of The Animation Industry As We Know It, so studios are going to do anything and everything they can to stay alive.

The way I see it is:

AI "art" isn't actually art. Art is created by humans to express ideas and emotions. Writing prompts allows a computer to interpret human ideas and emotions by taking other examples of those things and recombining them.

Just because something isn't art doesn't mean that humans can't understand it or find it beautiful. We passed a really fun prompt generation milestone about a year ago where everything looked like it was made by a Dadaist or someone on heavy psychedelics. Now we're at the Uncanny Valley stage. Soon, you won't be able to tell the difference.

It's not just drawings and paintings that are effected, but writing and film. It's every part of the entertainment industry. And the genie is out of the bottle. I've seen people saying that prompt-based image generators have "democratized" art. And I see where they're coming from. In ten years, I can easily see a future where anyone can sit down at their desk, have a short conversation with their computer, and have a ready-to-watch, custom movie with flawless special effects, passable story, and a solid three act structure. You want to replace Harrison Ford in Star Wars with your little brother and have Chewbacca make only fart sounds, and then they fly to Narnia and fistfight Batman? Done.

But, sadly, long before we reach that ten year mark, the bots will get hold of this stuff and absolutely lay waste to existing art industries. Sure, as a prompter I guess you can be proud of the hours or days you put into crafting your prompts, but you know what's better than a human at crafting prompts? Bots. Imagine bots cranking out hundreds of thousands of full-length feature films per minute. The noise level will squash almost any organic artist or AI prompter out of existence.

AI images trivialize real art. The whole point of a studio is to provide the money, labor, and space to create these big, complicated art projects. But if there are no big, complicated art projects, no creatives leading the charge, and no employees to pay... what the fuck do we need studios for? We won't, but their sheer wealth and power will leave them forcing themselves on us for the rest of our lives.

The near future will see studios clamp down on the tech in order to keep it in their own hands. Disney does tons of proprietary tech stuff, so I'm sure they're ahead of the game. Other studios will continue to seek mergers until they can merge with a content distribution platform. I've heard rumors of Comcast wanting to buy out either WB or Nick. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. The only winners of this game will be the two or three super-huge distribution platforms who can filter out enough of the spam (which they themselves are likely perpetuating) to provide a reasonable entertainment experience.

400,000 channels and nothing's on.

I do think that money will eventually make the "you can't copyright AI stuff" thing go away. There's also the attrition of "Oh, whoops! We accidentally put an AI actor in there and no one noticed for five years, so now it's cool."

One way or another, it's gonna be a wild ride. As the canary in the coal mine, I hope we can all get some UBI before I'm forced to move into the sewers and go full C.H.U.D.