The Age of Thinking, Self-Developing Robots Has Finally Arrived


	The Age of Thinking, Self-Developing Robots Has Finally Arrived

Silkweaver

11-30-2008 3:04 PM

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robotics, genetic programming, adaptive sytems

Silkweaver says:

This is quite fascinating.

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11-30-2008 3:07 PM

Silkweaver

Take a look at this video demonstration.

12-1-2008 4:25 AM

paisleyraven

Am I really the only one who thinks *Terminator* when reading this?We don't want machines to out-think us! We are flawed! They'll kill us!
Honestly..look at humanity. We kill each other over the most inane idiotic things. No animal on earth treats family as badly as we do.
If you were a suddenly self-aware machine, what's the first thing you'd do with us?
......
*fear*

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