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Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 02:57 AM
Holy crap... What the F. We are doomed. Only a matter of time before the "hard and arm" become a body. LOL.:dft012:wink

Anyway, with paranoia set aside, this is REALLY REALLY AMAZING. Imagine, with a bit of refining, prosthetic arms could be as dextrous or even more dextrous than the hand it replaced.

Robots here we come.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk
psylichon
11-04-2009, 03:14 AM
I've seen this before and it's mind-blowing. The dribbling and cellphone flip are by far the most astounding, in my opinion.
Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 03:15 AM
Those and the "tweezer and the rice grain" test are amazing. Precision and dexterity. That test demonstrates that the robots processors "feel" that the tweezer (something no circuits are connected to) have picked up the rice grain with the correct amount of pressure applied to squeeze the tweezer and pick it up, but not crush it.

Amazing.
psylichon
11-04-2009, 03:19 AM
There's some very sick programming going on behind that very sick hardware.
Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 03:26 AM
Yep... until it decided to grab their throats and crush.
psylichon
11-04-2009, 03:41 AM
Other than making for a better scifi plot, why is the "evil machine" always assumed? Why, when we finally build something that is aware of itself (assuming such a man-made thing could exist), must it inherently want to destroy us? That desire seems remarkably human to me. Perhaps the machines might be better and maybe even teach us a thing or two about the fine art of consciousness...?

Either that or it will deliver a blindingly fast karate chop to the throat.
acosmichippo
11-04-2009, 03:47 AM
because (our) machines are inherently binary: 0 or 1; black or white; good or bad. So a primitive AI would either deduce that we're cool, and retain status-quo, or find that we suck, and begin to eradicate us from existence. And with all of the **** in the world today, how could you not bet on the latter?

I wouldn't worry about it though. Yoshimi is taking her vitamins.
Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 03:54 AM
Robots dont understand moral choice. Its Y/N with them lol.

I think the reason why most humans see great technology in the light of "its going to destroy us" is because of the underlying notion that we are fragile and the stronger notion that we expire.

Eventually the machine will be like us, just stronger, more capacitive, adept with one goal, no divide or difference, or emotional factors. Its everything we are trying to be, and its everything we are not.
psylichon
11-04-2009, 03:56 AM
because (our) machines are inherently binary: 0 or 1; black or white; good or bad. So a primitive AI would either deduce that we're cool, and retain status-quo, or find that we suck, and begin to eradicate us from existence.

That's quite a logistical leap. Obviously a computer that has become aware has already transcended the off/on paradigm to a considerable degree.

Our brains work the same way, basically, ya know. Neurons are on or off. It doesn't necessarily extrapolate to our behavior.
Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 04:05 AM
Anyway, moving on from the whole killer robotic demise thing.

Run your shipping business extra fast with this robot lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqHSlgpapY
acosmichippo
11-04-2009, 04:08 AM
That's quite a logistical leap. Obviously a computer that has become aware has already transcended the off/on paradigm to a considerable degree.

Our brains work the same way, basically, ya know. Neurons are on or off. It doesn't necessarily extrapolate to our behavior.

you're assuming the computer is aware... if that's the case, i agree.

The scenario i think that's far more likely is a set of algorithms complicated enough to seem aware, but not really.
psylichon
11-04-2009, 04:15 AM
The scenario i think that's far more likely is a set of algorithms complicated enough to seem aware, but not really.

Weird... there was a short blurb on Slashdot on Monday (that I just read today... which is now yesterday) on this very subject:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1427822&cid=29953630
Londonrockz568
11-04-2009, 04:41 AM
Weird... there was a short blurb on Slashdot on Monday (that I just read today... which is now yesterday) on this very subject:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1427822&cid=29953630

That persons article begs the question.

Who's really intelligent? Are Humans considered a (N.I.) Natural Intelligence then?