On 9/27/2012 2:06 AM, meekerdb wrote:
I'll bet it can eat people too. Just so it can't reproduce (except it
can).
Brent
Well we are one step closer, machines that can metabolize and feed
themselves:
http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR
Oh my!
"The 4D/RCS is a framework in which sensors, sensor processing, databases,
computer models, and machine controls may be linked and operated such
that the
system behaves as if it were intelligent. It can provide a system with
several types of
intelligence (where intelligence is the ability to make an appropriate
choice or
decision):
(1) Reactive intelligence based on an autonomic sense-act modality which
is the
ability of the system to make an appropriate choice in response to an
immediate
environmental stimulus (i.e., a threat or opportunity). Example: the
vehicle moves
toward a vegetation sensed by optical image processing.
(2) Deliberative intelligence, which includes prediction and learning,
which is based
on world models, memory, planning, and task decomposition, and includes
the ability to
make appropriate choices for events that have not yet occurred but which
are based on
prior events. Example: the vehicle moves downhill in a dry area to
search for wetter
terrain which would increase the probability of finding biomass for energy.
(3) Creative intelligence, which is based on learning and the ability to
cognitively
model and simulate and it is the ability to make appropriate choices
about events
which have not yet been experienced. Example: from a chance encounter
with a
dumpster, the vehicle learns that such entities are repositories of
paper, cardboard, and
other combustible materials, and develops tactics to exploit them as
energy-rich
sources of fuel."
Let it mate with one of these
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/sep/25/first-self-aware-robot-created/>
and we are doomed! Nah, we are doomed anyway...
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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