Killer Robots

Training robots to anticipate our needs.
Training robots to anticipate our actions.
Training robots to figure out where we’re hiding and exterminate us, says I.

The multidisciplinary team of the EU-funded Joint Action Science and Technology (JAST) project first analyzed human-human collaborations, seeing what kind of behavior and brain function are at play when we work (or don’t work) well together, and then applied the research into building proactive robots.

The eventual aim is to build robots that can ask questions, discuss and explore possibilities, assess their companion’s ideas, and anticipate what their partners might do next.

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?

According to Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann, "military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers" and at a conference this Month, Brookings scholar Peter Singer said "Science fiction is moving to the battlefield. The future is upon us."

Sometimes I wonder if I’m the last sane person on Earth.