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    Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto

    Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
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    Image of Sora57 is OK Sora57 is OK
    02/20/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    "Westworld's" ETA just got closer.


    [www.imdb.com]

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    Clearly the simplest solution is to program the robots to have a deep affinity and love for dinosaurs. Then we genetically recreate dinosaurs that wanna have sex with robots. When the robots go crazy, release the dinosaurs.


    Pretty soon the robots will be fucked.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/19/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    Ethics? You mean like: Find Sarah Conner?
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    Image of Amplified Hustler Amplified Hustler
    02/19/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    Soon some technicality issues will have this guy on a rampage/training session...


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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/19/09

    @Amplified Hustler: AMEE was just afraid they were gonna kill her.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Poor Amee. She was just obeying her programming.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/20/09

    @BeautifulAgony: I know...it's just too bad that it made for a terribly flimsy premise in a movie that should not have been all about the robot trying to kill people. Oh, nematodes create oxygen after they eat stuff, but who cares, the ROBOT IS TRYING TO KILL US!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/19/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    You people are missing the point. The whole reason for having combat robots is so we can leave them to work autonomously and never think of them again. There is no reason whatsoever to ever worry about them. No reason whatsoever.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: He's one of them! GET HIM!!!
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    BeautifulAgony was starred BeautifulAgony was unstarred
    Image of DixonCyparissus DixonCyparissus
    02/20/09

    @BeautifulAgony: why should we believe you about "hello mister walrus"? after all, you just a website about people jerking off!?!?!?!
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/20/09

    @DixonCyparissus: You left some words out, so I'm not sure what you're implying.


    If you are refering to my time spent at Fleshbot... how does that factor in to this? It's not secret that I love porn. In fact, I suspect that many people do and that there just might be a great deal of it hidden out there on the intarwebz!

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/20/09

    @BeautifulAgony: Since the internets are 96% porn I don't think there's too much hidden, although some of it (ie: 2 girls, 1 cup) should be....
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    Image of RogueWarrior RogueWarrior
    02/19/09

    In reply to Navy Says Combat Robots Multiplying Fast, Need "Battlefield Ethics" Pronto
    Nothing that can't be solved with a few well-placed rounds of .50 BMG AP. Or better yet .338 Lapua Magnum.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    @RogueWarrior: Right. Because that'll do wonders for stopping a crazed robot in a crowd of civilians.
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    Image of snakepliskin snakepliskin
    02/19/09

    @RogueWarrior: I dont know anything about these magical bullets youre talking about but if Military Tactics by Michael Bay is to be believed as gospel (hint it is). Then the best course of action is to jump onto a motorcycle and slide it under the rampaging robot while shooting it with a sabot round from a grenade launcher.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/20/09

    @snakepliskin: Bravo, sir.


    Also, the motorcycle *EXPLOOOOODES* the second it slides into contact with something.

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    Image of JP The BAMF JP The BAMF
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    Does anybody remember the movie "Cherry 2000"? I can't wait for something like this to be realized... then I can get laid as much as I want!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/19/09

    @JP The BAMF: That's a real classic right there..
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    Image of Jewel Loree Jewel Loree
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    But can he play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/18/09

    @Jewel Loree:


    looks like *someone* has been wiki'ing...

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    Shouldn't this be Robochambeau then?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    She's cute. I guess between this and the ice slider, it's super-pedo day at Gizmodo.


    Why don't you have a seat right over there...

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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    That picture's deceiving. You can't really tell which one is the robot.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/18/09

    @frigg: Look closely at the photo and you'll see the attachment seams, clearly giving away the one on the right as being the robot. Here she is pre-assembly:
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    From the source website:

    Berti is less than two years old but will help scientists develop artificial intelligence outstripping anything previously seen before. "It was certainly a challenge for us but the result is a robot which is as sophisticated as anything else out there."


    So, let me get this straight. Rock, scissors, paper--a game of random choice. And this robot can move its hand into one of those three, completely random positions.


    Umm...pardon me, but just how is this arbitrary motion "sophisticated", with an "intelligence outstripping anything previously seen before"?

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    Image of mhlaxp mhlaxp
    02/18/09

    @bosskev: It takes the "dick move" approach to the game and won't show its hand until slightly after you've begun your reveal, ensuring a win every time.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/18/09

    @mhlaxp:


    but that's just a non intelligent, linear response - no different than pushing a button to make it do a particular hand gesture.


    i mean, here's the main code for something like that:


    if rock:

    paper()

    if paper:

    scissors()

    if scissors:

    rock()

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    But does it kick you in the nuts if you lose?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/18/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight.: Well if computer chess is any indicator then this thing will be doing a lot of kicking...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robot Take Over Starts With Harmless Game of Rochambeau
    Put some red in there and it'll look like Ninjzz from Bots Master.
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    Image of Kamenwati Kamenwati
    02/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I'm Zip Zoolander ZZ for short....come on you know the rest...
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    Image of Nutchromeo Nutchromeo
    02/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I'm so glad I'm not the only kid in town that knows that...


    Gizmodo: Helping you find kindred spirits one day at a time.

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    Image of Nutchromeo Nutchromeo
    02/18/09

    @Kamenwati: And for the hell of it...
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