First off — I’M BACK!! I know you all missed me. “Where were you, Leo?” Glad you asked. I was at a three-day gaming competition. I was SO rocking the HALO 3 tournament. But after 72 hours of fighting the Convenant some 9-year-old dork finally beat me. I think he was on steroids. Or Red Bull. And I didn’t appreciate his “unsportsmanlike conduct” after he won, either. Nobody crunks at Leo Ponce De Leon Spitz!
Anyway, onto more important matters: a crazy scary robot story I just found here . You don’t even have to read the article, which is pretty sciencey — nutshell, it talks about how this JAST org is trying to figure out how to make bots think (anyone else think this is a BAD idea?) — all you have to do is watch the vid. I kept worrying that that robot was going to get super pissed at the idiot who can’t even put together a couple of blocks and rip his head off with that huge mechanical arm-claw. (Although, if I’d been that bot, I might’ve gone berserk on that moron, too.)
It’s science dudes like this who create tech we can’t control which only makes the world a scarier place. Here’s what they said about developing independent, thinking robots: “Before robots like this one can be let loose around humans, however, they will have to learn some manners. Humans know how to behave according to the context they are in. This is subtle and would be difficult for a robot to understand.” Manners? Um, yeah, like how TEARING PEOPLE’S FACES OFF is NOT good?! I’m SO glad it will be “difficult” for these bots to understand. Now I feel MUCH better….
