“A small team of Sydney scientists has secured a $57 million contract to supply robots to the US Marine Corps. The Terminator-style technology uses artificial intelligence and could be the next big thing in military training.”
Oh boy! I guess I will need that survival training after all. Cause we are so boned!
Disturbing on many levels…
A future Darwin Award winner…
This is how it starts.
Sharpening my stakes as we speak.
my heart just skipped a beat…and not in a good way 
it totally is how The Passage started!
This is a case of “You’ve heard it, you can’t unhear it.”
Now every time the opening of TNG plays, I’m gonna hear that guy. Every time.
sings Star Trek The Next Generaaaaation sighs
I have a new ringtone.
Gods, my ears! My ears, they’re bleeding!
yes, becuase teaching a robot anger and fear is just…so …so very smart
http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2010/08/scientists-teach-robots-anger-and-fear-in-well-thought-out-plan
what could POSSIBLY go wrong???
You may be asking yourself, “But, why give robots the emotions that will allow them to destroy us?” Well, the team, headed by Dr. Lola Cañamero at the University of Hertfordshire and including a “consortium of universities and robotic companies across Europe,” developed the robots to be companions for diabetic kids in hospitals. Which is the sweetest reason we’ve ever heard for dooming the human race.
Ah hahahaha!
Game over, man. Game over!
You may be asking yourself, “But, why give robots the emotions that will allow them to destroy us?” Well, the team, headed by Dr. Lola Cañamero at the University of Hertfordshire and including a “consortium of universities and robotic companies across Europe,” developed the robots to be companions for diabetic kids in hospitals. Which is the sweetest reason we’ve ever heard for dooming the human race.
I’m picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger holding a vial of insulin and a needle urging a kid to “come vit me if you vant to live.”
This video shows every asteroid that’s been discovered in our solar system in the last 30 years, in order. Red crosses Earth’s orbit, yellow comes close, and green is everything else. The sky is becoming terribly full lately. :eek:
Am I misreading this, or isn’t this really an illustration of how our detection has gotten better over the years? That doesn’t make the “air traffic” any less scary. It just reproves that ignorance is bliss. On the plus side, it’s good news for those looking to make wishes on falling stars…