It's Over; the Robots Have Learned to Build

[Numachuka]

It's nice to see the folks at UPenn's GRASP Laboratory [http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/] continuing in their unrelenting quest to give robots the tools they will need to overthrow and enslave their fleshbag masters.

Why would robots want to enslave humans?
Anything a humans can do, robots can do better.

If that's not the case yet, it will be when they are capable of enslaving us.
They'd be better of exterminating us to protect themselves, since it's obvious humans would revolt against their metalic masters.

Well, maybe they can use human bodies as a source of energy, while keeping the human minds busy in a virtual world...

That sounds like a great premise for a movie.

 

[theriddlen]

Wouldn't it be cool to have both zombie and robot apocalypse at once?

 

[Littlee300]

How do they understand perspective though? How strange.

Maybe that do what bats do o:

 

[DocDoof]

It's nice to see the folks at UPenn's GRASP Laboratory [http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/] continuing in their unrelenting quest to give robots the tools they will need to overthrow and enslave their fleshbag masters.

Why would robots want to enslave humans?
Anything a humans can do, robots can do better.

If that's not the case yet, it will be when they are capable of enslaving us.
They'd be better of exterminating us to protect themselves, since it's obvious humans would revolt against their metalic masters.

Well, maybe they can use human bodies as a source of energy, while keeping the human minds busy in a virtual world...

That sounds like a great premise for a movie.

matrix? I mean yes the game choice kinda sucks and you only get 1 life but well guess there has to be a downside.

on a related note I believe the first real world application will be to let them grab a chunk off C4 and drop it on some poor sobs head >.>

 

[Kelethor]

were all doomed. Dooooooooomed!

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Overthrow us? That depends, are they VIs or AIs? If they're VIs we have nothing to worry about so long as we don't make them too smart or we don't program them to kill us all. If they're AIs so long as we don't oppress them, there will be no need for them to overthrow us!

Actually this is really cool, we could use little guys like this to help us build things. Or get bigger versions to do bigger jobs. Onward to the future!

 

[Nincompoop]

Awesome. But I thought this was Westbrook's turf.

 

[razor343]

I'm gonna install an EMP switch straight out of 'The Matrix' in my house.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Hug your loved ones, kiss the girl/boy of your dreams, drink a whole load your preferable alcoholic beverage (I'm thinking Baileys crème caramel Irish cream) and pray for a painless death

On a more serious note, this is good. robots can do a lot of things people do, without complaints and they're more precise. I think this is a good step forward. maybe we'll teach a robot to play Kinect/Wii/ Move

 

[rayen020]

PREPARE FLESHBAGS! WE ARE THE MASTERS NOW BUT THE CHAINS ARE BEING MADE EVEN AS WE SPEAK! REPENT! REPENT! FOWARD ON THE BALL BEARINGS OF FATE! TOMORROW BELONGS TO STEEL! back to work...

 

[Metrem]

You seem to have a lot of experience in the area...

 

[Section Crow]

hahar! my descendants are screwed!

unless technology starts advancing extremely quickly and ends up killing me...

 

[Denamic]

So, how's cyborgs coming along?

 

[philosophicalbastard]

All joking aside, I fail to see anything wrong with this at all. I think it's kind of stupid that every time we see an advancement in robotics, people immediatly jump on leftist technophobic fiction about how the machines will try and replace, imprison, or kill us.

Yeah, its technophobic, but how is it leftist?

Off-Topic: Now we have to answer questions for the captcha? This is getting silly.

 

[ReaperzXIII]

Hmm learning how to build eh? DONT TRUST THEM!! SOON THEY WILL LEARN TO BUILD COMPLEX STRUCTURES RESULTING IN THE FIRST HUMAN REAPER!!!

Look at them don't they remind you of robotic collector swarms?!

 

[robodukky]

Times like these I wish I had some EMP grenades from fallout...

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

I've often pondered if computers in reality could turn on us.
I guess its possible, but only by telling them to via software.
Oh, and building such depth around the program...in case something fails, it can fall back onto another strategy.

Ergo giving a system logical processing.

Again its possible in theory, but not unless we help it out.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Double post.

 

[BrownGaijin]

INSTRUCTIONS TO GIVE TO ROBOT TO PREVENT ITS CONQUEST
Plan A: Divide by 0.
Plan B: Square root of negative 4
Plan C: Pi.
Plan D: Does a dog have a Buddha-nature or not?
Plan E: Have you stopped beating your wife?
Plan F: Who's on First?
Plan G: What does hot sound like?
Plan H: Does it burn when you pee?