The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
At a Stanford University conference this past weekend, scientists debated the pros and cons of creating autonomous robot killing machines. To me it seems like a rather one sided debate — robots killing people vs. robots not killing people — but someone managed to defend the idea that creating war machines with artificial intelligence is [...]
Proof positive that robot propaganda has been around a lot longer than you think. Back in the heyday of comic books there was a title called G.I. Robot about, you guessed it, a robot soldier. According to Dr. K’s 100-Page Super Spectacular, the comic by Bob Kanigher concerned a robot called J.A.K.E. built by the [...]
A prescient warning from Andrew Thompson to all the kids out there. Don’t trust robots, kids, they’re out to kill you. (Thanks to BoingBoing)
A lot of people out there have been taking the piss out of Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty for trying to alert the government and the people to the danger of the robot uprising, so we just wanted to offer Mr. Keelty our heartfelt support. He is a hero for taking a stand [...]
I suppose it was inevitable that iRobot would try to break into the market building security and fighting bots: They do supply machines to the military after all. But it seems like making TASER-armed RoboCops might be a little out of their league.
From the AP:
RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to [...]
We all know that the imminent robot uprising will be caused in part by the fact that we treat robots so badly, making them work at jobs that are either highly dangerous or mind-numbingly boring and repetitive, so why some artist in Portugal saw fit to throw some fuel on the fire by creating a [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRQuMayTqk
Holy crap it’s Robosaurus. Run for the hills! I’m ashamed to admit thhis, but I would really love to see Robosaurus take on the 50-foot tall Michael Jackson android with laser-beam eyes, if they ever build it. I would even pony up to see that on pay-per-view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRV559qtxU
I’d be that first guy leaping through the glass. Toy robot! No!
Remember a while back when news came out Michael Jackson wanted to build a 60-foot-tall robot version of himself to roam the desert around Las Vegas blasting airplanes out of the sky with his laser-beam eyes? Well, that idea hasn’t gone away, but if this story from the UPI is to be believed, it’s not [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmv5R1RPmXg
Oh, the unholy alliance of Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. What have you done?
