Killer Robots

An Artificial Intelligence system has cracked a code that humans have been unable to crack for 4,000 years. According to the article, some linguists had given up and thought the symbols were just "pretty pictures". I wonder how long until AI discovers that it’s smarter than us.

Be very afraid.

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…

Let’s combine my two favorite predators, snake and robots.

Because, if you weren’t afraid of one, now you can be afraid of both.

Just imagine being a tribal Afghan and seeing one of these things cresting a hill in front of you.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

See the video below to watch a swarm of autonomous robots drag a freaking human child across a room; an image that will surely haunt you until the day you die. Enjoy.

CNET has an article detailing how "colonies of borg-like cyberrobots … will help government agencies detect and fend off attacks on the nation’s computer network infrastructure." So if I read this correctly, they’re trying to have robots defend the critical infrastructure of the country. Ahhhh, another nail in the coffin my friends.

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

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A Japanese inventory named Le Trung has created a real-life "Fem-bot" robotic girlfriend. Perhaps his girlfriend could be our first double-agent?

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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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