http://www.spike.com/blog/seven-technologies/101300
http://www.spike.com/blog/seven-technologies/101300?page=2
We're doomed.
(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/junah42/Snark/bender-doomed.jpg)
:lol:
Well, there's only one solution: Lazoons!
I know of at least one that will be able to make the robots lose their minds, at least according to the historical tapes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball_XL5).
http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html (http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html)
Just a quick FYI.
That's what the radio pixies in your teeth want you to think...
Also video wouldn't play, I blame robots
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2012, 11:35:05 AM
http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html (http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html)
Just a quick FYI.
Summary: Bunch of tools sit around fake-nerding about what kind of robot will lead the ro-pocalypse. And their answer is "the internet". Whoever wrote the script for this video needs to spend at least a day learning about how artificial intelligence really works. I mean, c'mon, if we follow that line of reasoning, it was our adoption of
writing things down on stone tablets that spelled humanity's end.
Pfft, robots can't take over anyway, computers took over in 1970.
(http://i.imgur.com/3jWZi.png)
Unless they are sexy robots, then we're screwed on many levels simultaneously...
Quote from: Thorin on May 07, 2012, 01:37:24 PM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2012, 11:35:05 AM
http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html (http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html)
Just a quick FYI.
Summary: Bunch of toolsCRACKED WRITERS sit around fakemeta-nerding about what kind of robot will lead the ro-pocalypse.
just another quick FYI/FYP.
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2012, 02:21:23 PM
Quote from: Thorin on May 07, 2012, 01:37:24 PM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2012, 11:35:05 AM
http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html (http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot-uprising-has-already-begun.html)
Just a quick FYI.
Summary: Bunch of toolsCRACKED WRITERS sit around fakemeta-nerding about what kind of robot will lead the ro-pocalypse.
just another quick FYI/FYP.
No, they were clearly faux-nerding it up.
IT Crowd is meta-nerding, Cracked is pandering to nerd wannabies who don't know what an XKCD is or why they'd visit a Penny Arcade:
(http://i.imgur.com/Vwrlw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/fUcgQ.jpg)
Hooray I am the Wwwyzzerdd!
If they could explain to me what is going on in this XKCD, I might believe they're nerds. Or at least, if they tried looking it up and spent a couple hours reading online OS docs:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/porn_folder.png)
source: http://xkcd.com/981/
But no, this was a clearly-scripted attempt at being clever about the "automated" life we now live. The basic premise was that we have stopped learning facts and have started letting the "internet" (and by that they're talking about pretty much anything automated, not just the transmission protocol, but really their premise should be based on the World Wide Web as they mostly talk about "all those facts online") store our knowledge. But that exact same premise can be used to explain how books have caused the Downfall Of Man. Which they haven't. We've just developed another tool that old people who were around when it was first introduced (like us) think is Amazing Technology.
Really, did your kids stop learning just because they were born after the World Wide Web came into existence? Mine didn't.
Nerds love loops, particularly if they only have one side
The correct xkcd to link to the origonal topic was
http://xkcd.com/1046/
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/skynet.png)
LOL
Quote from: Lazybones on May 07, 2012, 11:33:37 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 07, 2012, 11:26:20 PM
LOL
Yes there is an xkcd for almost everything.
Would that be rule 35? After all, there's already a rule 34 _and_ an xkcd for rule 34.
Oh wait, rule 35 is that if it doesn't exist on the internet it must be created.
Still, I'm pretty sure the Earth isn't going to explode on Dec 21, 2012, and I'm pretty sure robots aren't going to rule our lives. They might
infiltrate our lives, though. I suggest reading Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age for a possible future with nanobots.
apparently*** "robuts feel nothing* when they hold hands"
http://www.funnyordie.com/lists/2d2d4fb87b/robots-feel-nothing-when-they-hold-hands-foreword-by-seth-macfarlane
(http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1258734/89f8a52a07db0d95ab08dcf2745d77c9_width_640x.jpg)
*except possibly gushing excitement in anticipation of crushing the bones of a humun, if that is whose hands are being held. imo.
***sorry, the book cover/title is completely unrelated to the rest of its contents. But still, food for thought, right?
Somebody discovered FuunyOrDie.com today...
Also, most robots nowadays do have pressure sensors in their "hands" so they don't crush whatever they're picking up. But that's way less funny to say than the above book title.
and perhaps the robut rebellion will come from above:
450gram, 6-foot-wingspan robot that flies like a bird: (TED Talk, with live demo!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_JcKSHUtQ
to me, there's just something about this that is both beautiful and amazing (technology-wise) about this... but also, as a I said, robut-overlord-scary. No glowing red eyes required.
You're really on this they're-going-to-take-over kick, hey? Tin foil hat a little tight? Seriously, we're not going to have robot overlords.
Nevertheless, the tech of a machine copying bird flight is pretty cool.
Can we have sexy robot babe overlords?
Funny I watched that TED talk on netflix the other night. They have a whole bunch of TED talks on there now grouped by topic.
Quote from: Thorin on May 18, 2012, 10:03:20 PM
You're really on this they're-going-to-take-over kick, hey? Tin foil hat a little tight? Seriously, we're not going to have robot overlords
I know, I know... obviously not eactly living in fear or anything (the Robellion is easily centuries away! That's for my great-grandchildren to worry about!)
but hey, Mr. Analog's phrase = funny Google results:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sexy+robot+babe+overlords
"Our Robot Overlords Will Have Baby Brains"
http://gizmodo.com/5892980/our-robot-overlords-will-have-baby-brains
"Our robot overlords have no respect for fruit"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NU6ZxixepqYJ:men.metacafe.com/loop/sci-fi-loop/details/our-robot-overlords-have-no-respect-for-fruit/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk (source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/10/born-to-be-viral-watch-a-surgical-robot-peel-a-grape.html )
"I for one welcome our new robotic demon baby overlords"
http://nightmarefuel.blogspot.ca/2011/06/top-10-most-nightmare-enducing-music.html
and somehow*:
http://men.metacafe.com/loop/horror-loop/details/teddy-ruxpin-has-become-death-destroyer-of-worlds/
*which has an irresistable link to the http://men.metacafe.com/horror-loop/ which rewards you with "Reanimation! Underwater Zombie Frog Ballet! (http://vimeo.com/31923751)" aka the weird part of the internet again...
That is so bizarre haha
Real Life "Terminators" -- coming sooner than we think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02d0dgSvDA
^ 45 minute History Channel "That's Impossible" episode (narrated by Cmdr. William T. Riker!)
If each group of brilliant scientists and specialists were to gather together (robotics, allterrain walking/climbing, AI learning/reasoning -- including "social intelligence"!) and bring all their work into one project... eep?
Gecko-inspired "stickybot" @ 22minutes = coolest thing I've seen in a while (robotics-wise) [moar: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gecko+stickybot ]
stickybot is cool (and scary when you think of its possible surveillance-bot applications) but at least you can OUTRUN it (I presume)...
Welcome our new robotic cheetah overlords? http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/03/06/darpas-robot-cheetah-can-outrace-humans-be-glad-its-on-our-side
"AI software is learning to make AI software"
https://twitter.com/HumanVsMachine http://archive.fo/j5lmv
Robots aren't in the future.
They exist. Now. This Twitter account has hundrexs of different examples.
Even for PING-PONG.
"sigh." - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1124116362924658688