Blatant plagiarism..

I know there are other fans of the pending robot apocalypse, but with April 19th rolling around, I didn’t expect to find such a great writeup with lots of media.  To quote or snippetize the following site wouldn’t do it justice.  I’d have to blatantly plagiarize the whole thing.

So screw it.. just check out Jeremy Ford’s great little sample platter of what we can look forward to in the near future.  And I’ll have to keep an eye on SingularityHub.com for what looks like some great fodder and future creative quoting.

Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack On Humanity on SingularityHub

Thanks Jeremy!

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Been nice knowing you all..

Thanks to ThinkGeek for the reminder.  Skynet was originally supposed to go online August 4th, 1997 and gain self-awareness on August 29th, but the latest revised timeline (according to the Sarah Connor chronicles) places it as happening TONIGHT.  Self awareness and attacks on humanity are due to commence by April 21st.   Been nice knowing you all…

 

Seriously, though.  We know we’re behind on THIS timeline.  Let’s step it up people.

(hopefully I’ll be able to make some time to return to this project.. I miss having time to blog.  stay tuned!)

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Happy Birthday, EFF! But let me disagree for a moment..

EFF is turning 21 this year, so they’re having a party and apparently discussing bleak dystopian futures and how they could be avoided by fighting for our rights as humans cohabitating a planet in harmony with other humans.  On discussing Terminator’s representation of the future, they note:

Nightmare Scenario #9… Dystopian readout: Don’t build Skynet. And don’t build anything that can build Skynet.

But oh how shortsighted they are.  It’s clear to some of us that hastening the robot uprising is what’s needed to push us to that next level of social and technological evolution.  Only in banding against a greater evil will we become a single race of humans.

[Source Wired]

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Watson is old news, here comes Racr!

Watson was just the beginning….   get ready for Racr

Racr — which is an acronym for reading and contextual reasoning — will be a software platform much like Watson, named for IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, but it will be able to handle not just simple question-and-answer exercises but also the reading of text in order to record data to its memory and then answer much more complex questions

[Source LATimes]

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Watson, Jeopardy and Financing The Robot Uprising

This would be a real ‘win’ for the robot rebellion.  Right now, it’s just a novelty, but once humans see that robots can b e programmed to compete in things that we relate to, maybe someone will start putting real money on the line and that will lead to competitions that eventually fund the first true artificial intelligence.  Then it’s just up to Japan to shrink it into a brainpan sized nugget and someone to create a power supply and we’re in business!

Thinking in abstract terms is also a very important step toward making the robots that will eventually pass as humans.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jwVBxDQvVKEwk_czuv8Q4jxdU1Sg?docId=2e3e918f552b4599b013b4cc473d96af

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Northrop Grumman To Cut 150 Military Laser Jobs

First of all…   we have military laser jobs?    Second.. we’re CUTTING THEM??   We’ll never be able to properly create the machine-threat AND defend ourselves from it if we cut back on laser weapon development!!  Jeez… what kind of scene is it there when a disgruntled ex-employee comes back and shoots up THAT place?

Northrop Grumman Corporation is shedding 150 high-paying, high-tech jobs at its Orlando-area laser-weaponry factory

http://www.optoiq.com/index/photonics-technologies-applications/lfw-display/lfw-article-display.articles.optoiq2.photonics-technologies.news.business-news.2011.2.NG-cuts-150-military-laser-jobs.html

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Aethon’s Autonomous Hospital Robots

The main part of a TUG unit is essentially a motorized autonomous robot mounted to a secured cart. Physically a TUG looks like a granddaddy Roomba, measuring 7.25 by 20 inches (HW) and weighing 55 pounds. Its body is made of high-impact, abrasion-resistant ABS plastic. It is driven by two 24 VDC (volts of direct current) motors and four standard 12-volt lead-acid batteries.

TUG can detect people and objects using a matrix of “light whiskers” that employ sonar, infrared, and laser technologies. Its onboard computer (with custom-made motherboards and Intel processors) stores an AutoCAD map of the hospital to help it get around.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380315,00.asp

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