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Search Results for: robot
A Head of Its Time
Battlestar Galactica, the Terminator, Star Trek: TNG, and works by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Isaac Asimov, among many others, feature humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from humans. Such robots are discussed in more detail here. This post explores … Continue reading
An Apple a Day…Keeps Viruses Away?
What’s scarier than robot soldiers and stealth drones? The Borg Queen, grey goo, and spiders, for starters, but those are subjects for another time. I’m talking about viruses that can or will be able to infect militaristic AI. Sometimes, viruses … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-virus, attack, baltar, battlestar galactica, botnet, BSG, chip, closed, computer, conficker, cyber, cyberwar, cylon, enemy, hybrids, Independence day, iran, malware, Mark Gasson, mcafee, network, norton, offline, online, robot, stuxnet, supercomputer, system, transmission, transmit, trojan horse, University of Reading, upload, virus, warfare, worm
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Uncle Sam Wants…Who?
Imagine meeting the Terminator on the battlefield. You might try and run–that is, if it didn’t kill you while you were pissing yourself. What about an army of Terminators? A common image in science fiction: massive armies of identical robots … Continue reading
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Tagged alphadog, armed robotic vehicles, army, ARV, boston dynamics, clone, clone wars, cylon, DARPA, drone, iran, Iraq war, kurzweil, MIDARS, MULE, P.W. Singer, robot, santa, sentience, soldiers, star wars, stealth, TED, terminator, UAV, UGV
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Who Needs Fingers?
This blog’s for you. Welcoming couldthishappen.com’s first guest blogger, Spanky! You’re involved in a high-stakes poker game of epic proportions. Your entire life savings sits in front of you on the table (approximately $55). You’ve got what could be a … Continue reading
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Tagged bionic, contacts, display, emissions, eye, eyeball, governator, hands free, information, lens, pixel, pupils, radio wave, robot, smartphone, terminator
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Is That a Nightstick in Your Pocket or are You Just Happy to See Me?
So we’re not fighting a war against the cylons or any kind of AI just yet. Nor do we have armies of robots fighting for us, yet. But we’re getting there. South Korea has announced that it will begin using … Continue reading
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Tagged armies, dalek, guard, hubo, humanoid, OFRO, r2d2, robot, robot theme park, robotland, soldiers, south korea, warden
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I Think, Therefore I Do
When the Nintendo Wii first came out, I was baffled. I kept trying to play it like any other video game, using just my thumbs. You mean, I have to actually turn the joystick like it’s a wheel? Swing it … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, Asimo, Babylon 5, BMI, brain chip, brain wave, brain-machine interface, chip, cognitive enhancement, DARPA, Honda, implant, neural implant, prosthetic, telekinesis, telepathy, Toyota, Wii
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In Event of Cosmic Radiation, Please Take the Stairs
Even though the privatization of space flight might make it possible for (extremely rich) people to realize their dreams of travelling to space, I’m waiting for the day when I can step into an elevator and push the button for … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur clarke, carbon, carbon nanotubes, elevator, foundations of paradise, macromaterial, NASA, space, space elevator
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Anime Killed the Hollywood Star
Jumpstarted by Milli Vanilla’s Grammy-sized betrayal and carried on by scads of “artists” since, voice alteration and reproduction, be it lip-synching or Auto tune, has become a mainstay of the entertainment industry. If you’re one of those people who think … Continue reading
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Tagged AKB48, animation, anime, auto tune, avatar, character, computer-generated, Connie Willis, digital, Hatsune Miku, Hollywood, holograms, images, Japan, remake, video game
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Cylons Shouldn’t Sweat
In 1950, Alan Turing sought to answer the question “can machines think?” He designed a test that involved a computer having a typed conversation with a human. If a third party couldn’t consistently tell the computer from the human, the … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, battlestar galactica, BSG, computers, Hanson, mind, researchers, robots, scientists, sentience, soul, think, Turing, Turing Test
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“What if?” becomes “Could this?”
Science fiction is often speculative in nature, asking “what if…?” So it’s only natural that when we watch or read about some amazing futuristic device or scenario we ask ourselves, “could this really happen?” Could we reanimate dead tissue? Could … Continue reading
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