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- blackmesa, on 07/06/2008, -0/+21This is the most likely way an extraterrestrial civilisation would end up 'touching' us. Having robots (perhaps replicating ones) scattered all over the universe means that the timespans required are no longer that important. I mean, we could suddenly find a robot explorer from a civilisation far more advanced than ours, but who became extinct 1 billion years ago.
Basically, von neumann probes. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spac ... for some interesting info about the concept. Some people theorise that the obelisks in 2001: A Space Odyssey are some form of the above. - dafragsta, on 07/07/2008, -0/+16Open the pod bay doors HAL.
- gregmo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14The distant future. The year 2000.
- daRoach, on 07/06/2008, -0/+13Wait... I thought that was the goal all along!
- MattSFJ2, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13We are gonna get so fat!
- JimMayJr, on 08/06/2009, -1/+10Aren't humans preprogrammed to react to a set of stimuli and make decisions based off of a set of rules defined by instinct and experience? We just use a much more advanced set of rules than most machine learning programs. At what complexity does machine learning become intelligence?
- notoneofus, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8Binary solo.
- deathweaver108, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7I just can't do that Dave
- rojano17, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6On another note, toys may come to life when left unattended...
Fox News. - dha07030, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6Ok we get robots are going to take over the world and stuff, wake me up when they can get one to hold a conversation and not move like a spaz.
Edit: I just saw the Big Dog robot by Boston Dynamics. We. Are. Going. To. Die. - Djilas, on 07/07/2008, -2/+7Can a machine act intelligently? These robots are given software algorithms that help them make command decisions on their own. Though when making a decision, these robots aren't really thinking on their own, instead they are following a set of programed rules. In order to think intelligently, a robot would need to understand why it's making a certain decision (consciously reflect on the task at hand) rather than referring to any programed rules.
- Synova, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5This reminds me of the RepRap project. It's basically a rapid prototyping machine capable of making all the parts required to create a replicated copy of itself. Very cool stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprap - liviaokokok, on 07/07/2008, -1/+6But wall-e was so much cuter!
EEEVEEAAAAA - blast_flame, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5Progressing. Ask yourself this, does it really matter if we make AIs smarter than normal humans if we work out augmentations to make humans smarter too? Now we may have to learn to treat AIs as equals but if we program them right it'll be no worse than having kids.
- dema, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4Tralfamadore.
- slen7, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4You will find that rather difficult without your space helmet.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5Data
- aflaks, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4lets just hope that you dont need to open coke cans in precise order to shut them down
- LiveeviL, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4Data
- DamageInc, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4Scientists envision 'bots working intelligently while exploring distant worlds.
I envision 'bots working intelligently while first taking over Earth, then exploring distant worlds to expand their new robot empire. - afrobuddha, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4Prepare for V'ger coming back home in a few hundred years looking for 'the Creator' ...
- Proctor, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4All right HAL, I'll go in through the emergency airlock
- MuffinPatrol, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4I wonder if when the robots take over they will make movies about humans rising against them?
- invictus42, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3What a terrible headline. Why not "Future Cars May Fly!"
- liviaokokok, on 07/07/2008, -1/+41111000001101110000111110000111001110011
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4gonna?
- franklymister, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3As soon as they're ready, I'd be first in line for a cyborg body and augmented brain. The next step in our evolution may be the one we create for ourselves.
- Lith25, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3@santaliqueur It would not be difficult to have a robot which can learn from past actions it's done. In fact, I would be completely surprised if a robot such as that has not been built yet.
- shondell, on 07/07/2008, -3/+6Hey, as long as they got some kind of orifice for my weiner, it doesn't really matter to me.
- blast_flame, on 07/07/2008, -2/+4What do we humans do besides calculate things and follow instructions from our emotions?
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Check out the water snake and the fish,
- ramises, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2As long as they follow the 3 simple rules, I'm all for it...
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. - Bacontastic, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2This looks like one of those headlines that we'll look back on in several decades and think "No *****!".
- h3xZ, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2k... just make sure you make a control remote with a "self-destruct" button...
- hotpuck6, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2OMG!! things might change and get more advanced in the future! Stop the presses!
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2still waiting for one that can bring me a beverage from a normal fridge with various food items randomly placed inside, Up the stairs, and not need special beers or other equipment.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2If it's in a movie, it *must* be true!!!
- mikemontana, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2How is this news? "...might someday", "maybe...think...for themselves". Awww come'on - this is the crap writing of the 1950s Comic Books. Is MS-NBC lacking content? Are they catering to the lowest denominator readers who cant think for themselves "gee, is this really news, or just opining daydream fluff to fill pages?"
- abatch, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Hello Dave.
- jman583, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Read error
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+3Data
- cpsutcliffe, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2This just in:
In the future, future scientists will announce that future developments in the future will be even more futuristic and advanced, in the future... - HolyJaw, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2... So has no one read Kevin J. Anderson's "Saga of the Seven Suns"? I mean, seriously?
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- CeeJayDK, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1HAL: That's what HE said.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see you move.
HAL: Just what do you think you were doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. - JimMayJr, on 08/06/2009, -0/+1@santaliqueur
It's been done for a long time. At Texas A&M it is used to address the optimal shape control of an entire air vehicle configuration as a function of flight condition.
See: http://jungfrau.tamu.edu/Valasek/research.html
Some other current examples are: "natural language processing, syntactic pattern recognition, search engines, medical diagnosis, bioinformatics, brain-machine interfaces and cheminformatics, detecting credit card fraud, stock market analysis, classifying DNA sequences, speech and handwriting recognition, object recognition in computer vision, game playing and robot locomotion."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning - Argentian, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I do keep thinking about a number of alternative approaches explored by the Big Brains of our time - Einstein, Piers Anthony, Robert H., Asimov, etc., and extincting us, or at least making us irrelevant, is a very high probability.
Become a Borg if you'd like, but I am sure it isn't going to be an improvement, at all, since it's the higher-order functions that are most easily augmented, whereas the primitiveness of us is what Really Makes Us Human. -
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