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    Default They want to protect us from killer robots.

    There's worldwide concern about autonomous robotic weapons. Personally, I reckon it's probably much too late to stop that ball from rolling. You can bet that regardless of stated good intentions, every major power and big weapons business will be hard at it developing designs. They are all hypocrites.

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/top-ar...17-8?r=US&IR=T
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    Will work about as well as the ban on landmines did.

    Your robot soldier does not need food, sleep or leave. You don't have to pay it or provide for a pension when you retire it. Nor do its relatives kick up a fuss with the MoD if it gets blown up. You can see the attraction.

    However: If sci-fi films have taught us anything it is that killer robots always run amok and turn on their creators.

    Double-edged sword.

    It's a shame real artificial intelligence is still just some computer geek's wet dream. I think what you are more likely to get is an increase in drone technology. There will be a human controlling the robot soldier but he will be thousands of miles away sat at a desk in a bunker.
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    Maybe they'll have more luck finding charging points than the average electric car driver.
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    Here's a bun pun

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    Neil may have something to say about that.
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    Nah, build a real life robocop....He's way more cooler.

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    This is well worth reading (it's in two parts)...and very, very scary indeed.

    https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artif...olution-1.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Here's a bun pun

    Daleks aren't robots. Think of a Dalek as a highly armoured and armed tank, with a horrible, nasty creature at the controls.

    Cool buns though
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Neil may have something to say about that.
    Yes, I did... see above.
    Regards Neil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L View Post
    Daleks aren't robots. Think of a Dalek as a highly armoured and armed tank, with a horrible, nasty creature at the controls.

    Cool buns though
    these are special robo dalek buns tho; once eaten the exterminate from within
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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