“There’s no reason to be afraid of a ship like this,” Work told reporters at the ceremony.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

AI 'good for the world'... says ultra-lifelike robot

I admit, I posted that mostly for the title. Little really new in the article.

I'd be happy if more of my fellow Americans had intelligence of any kind.

Moving towards unmanned everything, after all - drones don't swear loyalty to a constitution.

China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens’ Faces

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security—its national police force—and other agencies called in 2015 for the creation of an “omnipresent, completely connected, always on and fully controllable” nationwide video-surveillance network as a public-safety imperative. In a policy statement, the agencies included “facial comparison” in a list of techniques to be used to improve surveillance networks.

Giant Ziplock Baggies Full of Lambs Are Going to Change Everything

In April, researchers announced they had managed to keep several extremely premature lambs alive and growing in artificial wombs. After spending up to four weeks in a clear plastic "extra-uterine device" at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, each sheep transformed from a decidedly undercooked fetal specimen to a much more robust critter with long limbs and a fluffy wool coat, the sort of animal you wouldn't be terribly alarmed to see plop to the ground in a field on a spring afternoon.

No gifv support?

http://i.imgur.com/mFz42uP.gifv

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AI bots create their own language to converse with each other, leaving humans behind:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networki … ge-1731309

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Forget the rest, this is how  the human race ends.

However, there appears to be little scope for flexibility in China’s Communist Party-controlled courts, where a near perfect conviction rate results in more than 99 percent of defendants being found guilty.

Kill it, kill it with fire...

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Goodbye China.  So long Mexico.  Far well Far East Little Tigers

George Orr wrote:

Phwoah.
I'd like to be able to leave an eloquent comment, but I'm frankly at a loss for words.  Phwoah.

America is obscenely well positioned to weather the robo-manufacturing revolution, the larger question is how well we will weather the resulting war.

So...we're putting a band together...

Automatica Preview from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.

Automatica - Drum Robots from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.

Have the Chinese ever really gotten the concept of "rental"?

No stab-you-in-the-dick bots please. Bonus slideshow of a creepy lovedoll makeout session half way down the page. (Is he *smelling* her?)

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In related news, I got my best sleep in a couple of months after reading this before bed:

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation



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Emmeran wrote:

Smudge wrote:

In related news, I got my best sleep in a couple of months after reading this before bed:

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation

https://s1.postimg.org/41uihie233/15540 … matrix.jpg

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Nope:

Using a manufactured planet's biological matrix as a computer designed to discover the ultimate question, is not the same as living in a computer simulation.

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Nope:
https://media.giphy.com/media/vS5J5d5i0NsHK/giphy.gif

Using a manufactured planet's biological matrix as a computer designed to discover the ultimate question, is not the same as living in a computer simulation.

That was the point of the entire story...      ...he wasn't real he was a figment of a computer simulation who happened to escape.

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Smudge wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

No stab-you-in-the-dick bots please. Bonus slideshow of a creepy lovedoll makeout session half way down the page. (Is he *smelling* her?)

Usage of the terms "hacking" and "penis" in the same sentence should be prohibited.

Don't worry, the street runs both ways.

Automation doesn't have to mean a loss of jobs.

Question: If a robot is a Saudi citizen, and dressed as a woman, must you still disrespect it?

I also want to know how I'm supposed to believe that there isn't some mechanical Turk with his hand up her ass? They admit that "some of" it was planned. So it's just a really good mechanical Abe Lincoln?

She may not be good at simulating a human, but she is at least as natural and smooth as a politician.

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

Ada Lovelace

(Lord Byron's daughter)

and the drum beats on

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Okay, now I'm getting scared.