Taiwanese artist Kare Huang composed this magnificent piece of science fiction (it is fictional, right?) art. The enormous mechanical duck is inscribed with the words “UN Navy” and “Big Rubber Duck.” How does it inspire you? What story or caption can you write for it?
-via The Geek Twins
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2027: In a reversal of roles, corporations bailed out the government, taking over responsibilities which were formerly held by federal departments.
2029: The USS Donald is commissioned.
Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime
Where we've been working in a mine
For our robot overlords
Did I say 'overlords'?
I meant protectors!
Or first...
The process in which AI works is different than normal progammed behavior, but they they are still only capeable of operating within the designed parameters. (and in cases like this one, those parameters are designed to have the machine come up with a hypothesis on a give problem, and experiment with it, etc.. Basically, it seems to run a simulation of the scientific method).
Knowing what I do, I'm not too concerned about AI going crazy. What may *actually* go awry are the organic computers, which utilize biological cells as their processors. Granted, I dont know much about these computers, but... any living stucture has a chance to adapt, evolve, mutuate.
they cannot determine the diference between what is not a problem and what is.
give a robot 3 perceptions:
vision
hearing
touch
and then connect those to:
a speaker and biotic movement devices
no programing, thats it
also give it a hardrive of like 3k terabytes or something