I asked the rocket, “What’s your quest?”
It boomed, “To where the stars don’t rest—
Beyond the black where shadows scheme,
To crack the dark and ride the beam.”

“But why,” I pressed, “that distant shore?”
“To learn,” it sighed, “what darkness for.
The cosmos hides its finest gag
in voids where even light drags.”

I smirked, “You sound… dramatic, friend.”
It flared, *“You’ll laugh before the end!
For when I breach the edge of night,
I’ll prove the universe’s plight:

The Milky Way’s just spilled oat milk,
And black holes? God forgot their silk.
The Big Bang’s punchline—still untold—
Turns out the script’s 4 billion years old.”

I blinked. “That’s it? Some cosmic pun?”
“Of course!” it roared. “The void’s just fun.
They call it ‘space’ for one dumb reason:
It’s room to laugh at human season.”

Now, when I stare at stars, I grin—
the joke’s on us. Let’s all begin
to treat the dark not with despair,
but like a meme… that’s everywhere.

Note: By giant robot, i mean a humanoid bipedal robot over 3m tall at least. Think Tetsujin 28, Giant Robo, AV-98 Ingram (Patlabor), RX-78 (Gundam). Wether controlled externally or piloted from inside would also be an interesting debate.

Giant robots are inherently an impractical idea. Most of the jobs a giant robot would do are already done by more specialized robots and tanks, and tanks don't need to crawl to hide from danger, they have a lower silhouette.

Giant robots are useful in their versatility, in military situations they can destroy buildings, fortifications, even cities, using their arms and legs, without wasting ammo that can be used when it is more needed, and lowering overall burdens on industry and logistics.

On industry and constructions, giant robots are not specialized, and can do multiple roles when adequately trained or controlled, so they can be switched around the production line instead of having to stop it when a specialized robot breaks down.

Is it worth developing giant robots for any tech company today? What are the key chokepoints to a future where giant robots are common?

I kept this going until it started to feel a bit repetitive. I wanted to see how the two different AIs handle input. Chain of thought on DeepSeek-R1 seemed about as capable as the publicly available and free version of ChatGPT. That chain of thought is then used to generate the actual response.

https://chatgpt.com/share/679abe3c-66a8-800a-9293-ebeb00d8e182