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Videos of latest bipedal robots from Japan - Amazing/Scary...!

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Defiant STI

Wow, its amazing how technology is moving on. Now give it a gun and see what it can do

daiscooby

As a serious point how long if ever do you think it will be beofre they build as device that is self aware ?. I E. becomes true A.I.

MarkO

If you believe Turing, then self-aware devices aren't actually possible.

tallsteve

Studied AI at Uni as part of my computing course, doubt that anything coming close to Human intelligence could be developed within the next 50 years or so. Problem is of course that "intelligence" is so hard to quantify, as for self awareness you'd be devling deep into Metaphysics..

Think we are safe from Arnie for the time being - although some research should be done on that cute female terminator...

unclebuck

one word - Skynet.

UB

SJ_Skyline

Not as long as Microsoft are still making software!

Squizz

LOL...

I can see it now, a Terminator (c) is about to destroy humanity when suddenly...

...Blue Screen of Death!

<Press any key to continue>

ROFL

daiscooby

I only ask the question cos when I was in the Army about 13 or 14 years ago I knew a guy in civvie who was developing software to teach a robot how to balance a broom handle on its end by learning through repertition. He estimated 75-100 years for self aware development.
But yes you can imagine the scenario of the dreaded Blue Screen on say an airplane of air traffic control consol.

JayPSC

That robot is very very cool. I want one I'm assuming it's not self contained though?

cletterridge

A life size version of this with about the same level of mobility was made years ago by another (completely unlikely) Japanese company.


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Honda! (Yes really, they were trying to design a companion for elderly customers)

http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/

Markus

Pah! Why worry about rise of the machines. It'll be a clone army before that happens. Makes way more sense, get a good baseline DNA sample, then modify it to build the perfect soldier, then clone away. A nice, ruthless and more important totaly expendble infantry. Why send in bombers when you could send in 10,000 expendable troops to do a similar job (yeah, I know, bad and silly example!)

I really don't think we shall see, in our lifetimes, any problems with 'sentient' machines. But who knows, see how far we have come in the last 100 years, and these days things move fast.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Looks like its dying for a crap, Dont think that Depeche Mode will like that cover version of Just cant get enough.

Scoobydick

If they could make it moon walk then it would truely be the coolest thing in the world.

bigsinky

The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.



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cheers

sinky

Alberick

as long as they're from Japan nothing to be afraid about....if they were made in the US that would be scary