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6 Ways You Know the Robots Are Revolting

Posted April 16, 2013 7:35 AM

From Discovery News:

Every few weeks, it seems, a new story hits the headlines about the latest breakthrough in the field of robotics. Innovations are happening all the time, of course. The term "robotics" encompasses a global system of technology, industry and research. But certain kinds of robot stories break through into popular culture with alarming regularity. Taken together, these stories can provoke a certain unease. Read enough of them in a row, and the question presents itself: Are we watching the robot revolution take place before our very eyes? Will our future robot overlords look back, 100 years from now, and regard these moments with digital fondness as they populate their own history books? (Or databases or holo-archives or whatever they have in store?)

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04/16/2013 9:34 AM

People have been killed by people controlling machines for over 100 years, every year they get more sophisticated, the last steps will be to autonomous control by the machines....Then it will be about who controls the software... and finally a machine that can't be hacked, a machine that perceives everything as a threat...

"The Defense Department is working on autonomous, self-governing armed robots designed to find and destroy targets completely on their own -- and the plan is to have them deployed by 2020."

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04/16/2013 9:42 AM

Hopefully this new generation of automatons will have better decision making abilities than the LynDoor™ Defense Technologies Autonomous Assault Device.

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Kinda small compared to the kris/del model ,,,,jus sayin.....

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04/16/2013 2:22 PM

"Kinda small compared to the kris/del model..."

Harumph! Every man knows size doesn't matter...

No, I'd better not say it.

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04/16/2013 2:46 PM

Well, some of them might be revolting, but not this one:

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04/16/2013 3:14 PM

It's a good thing this movie wasn't made a decade earlier or they would be sticking a bunch of floppy disks in her head!

Now where did I put disk 16?

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04/17/2013 2:37 AM

7. By how they smell.

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04/17/2013 3:34 PM

A rose hose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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