Archive for May, 2007


WaPo following my lead

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

There are just too many great quotes from this article, so just read the whole thing:
Bots on the ground

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become an unprecedented field study in human relationships with intelligent machines. These conflicts are the first in history to see widespread deployment of thousands of battle bots. Flying bots range [...]

nws

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Clocky

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

This is just too smart.

Clocky
The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don’t wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, [...]

How machines should behave

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

(I reworked the CONOPS post into a D&D thread. Hopefully this gets some responses.)
There have been plenty of articles recently published debating the merits of Korea’s soon-to-be drafted Robot Ethics Charter. We had a thread a few weeks ago on this very topic that didn’t go anywhere. I don’t want this thread to be about [...]

COMPUTERS SMARTER THAN ATHEISTS

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Even though computers aren’t capable of rational thought and know nothing about morals, yet they have more sense than the most learned atheist. Case and point: The other day while working on a PC, I began deleting unwanted files. There was an html file that showed all of the TEN COMMANDMENTS. Since it was a [...]