SKYNET Part 2
First robot to walk like a human:
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/biped-robot-walks-with-human-grace
Robots that figure out how to lie:
http://gizmodo.com/346029/scientists-invent-robots-that-lie-real-bender-closer-than-ever
Scientists extract visual images DIRECTLY from the brain:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/
60% of Roomba owners have given their robots NAMES:
http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2006/01/25/new-years-2016-i-robot-investor.aspx
IBM simulates a rat brain:
http://seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php
An interesting quote from this last one: “After years of hard work, they were finally able to watch their make-believe brain develop, synapse by synapse. The microchips were turning themselves into a mind.”
Eben, this is an interesting article titled “Why the future doesn’t need us.” It was written by Bill Joy and published on Wired in April 2000.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
How long down the track before Markram gets the same notoriety as Milgram, having been the first to be ‘cruel’ to a known form of consciousness by creating the computer equivalent of Helen Keller?
…and when Blue Brain takes the stand, how will they make sure it’s not lying…
Everybody talks about the lying robot, butwhat about the hero robot in that same article? I am more interested in why a robot would be so selfless as to actually put himself in harm’s way.