Killer Robots

Only yesterday did a robot make it’s first scientific discovery, and I was wondering how fast these things would learn. It looks like my questions have been answered since a computer has now discovered the laws of physics on its own. Looks like we’re in for quite a ride, humans.

For the first time in human history, a robot has discovered a scientific fact on its own that humans did not already know. From the article. “The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently ‘discovered new scientific knowledge’.”

I wonder how often these discoveries will be made now…

Honda Motor Co. has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person’s scalp as well as changes in cerebral blood flow when a person thinks about four simple movements — moving the right hand, moving the left hand, running and eating.

Honda succeeded in analyzing such thought patterns, and then relaying them as wireless commands for Asimo, its human-shaped robot.

So the plan is we’ll need to fight mind reading robots.
Tin foil hats for everyone.

The DoD is looking to develop chat-robots to talk to the kids of deployed parents… Let the brain-washing begin…

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Tan Le is co-founder of a company that is developing a direct brain interface they're calling a Mind Control Device. Basically a way to directly interface the brain to a computer… Both consciously, and the more-scary subconsciously. We can only hope this technology stays on our side…

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A research paper written by a robot has been accepted at one of the most prestigious computer security conferences. In fact, the robot under an assumed name of "Herbert Schlangemann" has even been selected as session chair. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.

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Yet another "thought-controlled" robotic arm… Let's hope that this technology never falls into the wrong hands.

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You just never know when they're watching… Be safe, fellow humans.

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UTS researchers are working on making prosthetic limbs to be controlled by human though. That's all well and good until they started talking about Artificial Intelligence. Man, talk about a bait-and-switch.

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Scientists in Florida have determined that cars do in fact have "personalities". So if that's true, how long until one develops a human-killing personality? Time to buy more magnets.

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