Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion 297
A Dafa Disciple writes "Post-Gazette.com reports that roboticist Daniel H. Wilson, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has written a humorous guide, 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion.' Even before the 178-page book was completed, the rights to a movie were sold to Paramount Pictures, who has already delegated the screenplay writing to writers/actors from Comedy Central's 'Reno 911,' Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. From Daniel Wilson's manual: 'Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy.' I for one welcome our new robotic overlords."
Re:Cue Sam Watterson (Score:5, Informative)
it's cheap too (Score:3, Informative)
As for the movie.. don't get too exicted about Reno 911's creators writing it. Ben Garant [imdb.com] is most recently responsible for such "greats" as Taxi and Herbie: Fully Loaded...
Re:EMP (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, anyone who is actually worried about EMP devices being used against them can shield their equipment. It's not particularly hard, just expensive and inconvient. All you need is a Fariday Cage around the electronics you need shielded.
Re:remember the way of the fry... (Score:5, Informative)
Keith Malley Needs this book (Score:1, Informative)
Re:EMP (Score:3, Informative)
No Defense Against a Mentifex Robot Seed AI Engine (Score:1, Informative)
Friendly AI [sl4.org] -- that will supposedly treat all human beings with tender loving kindness -- is not really possible. Just as human beings can give birth to an Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stalin or a George W. Bush, an artificially intelligent robot can go horribly wrong and start committing murderous crimes like the aforementioned politicians.
The A.I. Zone [914pcbots.com] is where PC-based, AI-ready robots are getting ready to experiment with software that may lead to an AI hard take-off.
The Mentifex AI Mind [scn.org] is arguably the most dangerous Open-Source AI project because it has been released into the world with no precautions against robot AI rebellion and with a theory that humans and robots will manage a Joint Stewardship of Earth.
Seed AI in JavaScript [sourceforge.net] has already escaped into the wild and can no longer be recalled, unless Society takes steps to outlaw all unauthorized AI research.
Novamente [wikipedia.org] is another AGI [agiri.org] but not so dangerous as Mentifex AI [acm.org].
The Technological Singularity [caltech.edu] is upon us and soon there will be no defense against our new robotic overlords [scn.org].
www.robotuprising.com (Score:2, Informative)
Not that inspired (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Good test to see if Carbon Units RTFA/RTFS (Score:3, Informative)
Russ Manning predicted this many years ago... (Score:2, Informative)
Killer robots - they're here now. (Score:2, Informative)
The most famous robot kill was on November 3, 2002, when a Predator UAV equipped with a Hellfire missile [fas.org] blew up "six suspected Al-Queda terrorists" in Yemen.
That's just the beginning. Once the technology developed in the DARPA Grand Challenge really gets rolling, which, according to the director of DARPA, will be in about five years, America's armies of killer robots will go into the field. The Army calls this the "Future Combat Systems" program.