Killer Robots

The US DoD continues down the path of recreating the Terminator plot line, but in real life. Can someone get them a Netflix account?

Called the “Ember,” the robot runs on reversible treads and has two flippers on one end to get it over obstacles and right itself. It’s got a tiny camera mounted on one side, and an antenna mount. It’s even got its own Facebook photo album.

It’s small, it’s sturdy and someday every soldier may have one.

It’s been made under a Pentagon contract to develop “LANdroids,” small, automatically networking communications and surveillance robots.

Yeah! Networked robots!
Yeah! LANdroids!
Right, keep telling yourself that this won’t go horribly awry.
I’ll just go find Sarah and John and head for the hills.

Yes, we continue to train the robots to hunt us, and this time on the social networking sites.

Ibn Sina Robot is joining Facebook, seeks friends

Named for a medical doctor, the Ibn Sina Robot wants to shed his scholarly ways and you know, hang out, make friends, have a bit of fun. The prototype robot is based on a PeopleBot machine from ActivRobots. It features face recognition and language modules that allow it to carry on real-time conversations with its database of friends. The plan is to put the bot on Facebook where according to the BBC it will "foster meaningful realtionships with people.".

At least it kinda looks like UBL, so we won’t trust it right off the bat. But if they make it look like a 15-year old girl the gamer boys will be in trouble.

Scientists will be unveiling ground-breaking new software this month that will undoubtedly bring us one step closer to the annihilation of humans by robots. I will quote the article directly for the particularly scary parts. "The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet’s Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does." Yep, you heard that right. A computer system that is not only a "global store" of information, but that it behaves like a human. Way to go, dip-shits. Didn’t you see The Terminator?

AIGameDev has an article about the 18 most embarassing AI errors in games. This all seems fine until you realize that what we’re helping the robots defend themselves against human thought. Way to go AI developers!