Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2014-08-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Good article. You have to watch the PBS documentary on Kurzweil. Part nut case, part genius. Falling in love with your OS is one thing; but, Musk thinks AI is potentially more dangerous than Nukes:

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2014-08-06 Thread Jones Beene
From: Terry Blanton ….Musk thinks AI is potentially more dangerous than Nukes: http://mashable.com/2014/08/03/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence/ with comments by Kurzweil. “Dangerous to whom” is the deeper question. If you believe in a soul of some kind, independent of biology

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2014-02-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: The internet giant also hired futurist, inventor and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil in 2012 to lead an engineering team focused on machine learning and language processing. end http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25908379

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2014-02-22 Thread Jones Beene
Good article. You have to watch the PBS documentary on Kurzweil. Part nut case, part genius. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton The internet giant also hired futurist, inventor and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil in 2012 to lead an engineering team focused on machine learning and

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2014-02-01 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Google has purchased Boston Dynamics the maker of all these strange robots. No longer will google be known for their virtual bots only.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-12-16 Thread Terry Blanton
Google has purchased Boston Dynamics the maker of all these strange robots. No longer will google be known for their virtual bots only. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec7ee5f2-65ad-11e3-8451-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2nePFyrIz Odd thinking of Google as a military contractor. Combined with Amazon's

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-12-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Google has purchased Boston Dynamics the maker of all these strange robots. No longer will google be known for their virtual bots only. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec7ee5f2-65ad-11e3-8451-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2nePFyrIz Odd thinking of Google as a

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-10-12 Thread Terry Blanton
And now comes Cheetah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=wE3fmFTtP9g

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
The future is becoming the present very quickly. In this case, on one hand, the cheetah robot makes it clear that it will be possible to track down suspected criminals with tireless, relentless efficiency. You can evade the law for a period of time, but the robots will eventually collect you.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-07-26 Thread Terry Blanton
This one reminds me of a roach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=ntlI-pDUxPE Kill it!

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-03-23 Thread Terry Blanton
More evidence of the coming robopocalypse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=ol8c9bdp7YI

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-03-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
You notice this is from the GRASP lab. What next, the STAB lab? These people are not even hiding their intention to take over the world! They remind me a James Bond movie villains, flouting their villainy. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-03-23 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: You notice this is from the GRASP lab. What next, the STAB lab? These people are not even hiding their intention to take over the world! They remind me a James Bond movie villains, flouting their villainy. - Jed I

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-03-23 Thread Terry Blanton
How about this creepy-crawlie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=k72Rf78Wu_c ?

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-10-29 Thread Robert Lynn
Just make sure you are an engineer - will need someone to design and maintain all of the killing machines. On 28 October 2012 23:31, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I had seen this before. This must

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-10-28 Thread Terry Blanton
I thought I had seen this before.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I had seen this before. This must be where I first saw the video. ;) Eric

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-05-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Be prepared. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=-G3RoBHMu-o#!

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-05-08 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Be prepared. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=-G3RoBHMu-o#! The book was quite good: