On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:28 AM, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > what, 'Robot Chicken'?
Yep! P.85 http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf "1. Robot Chickens Unlike our best million-dollar robots, a chicken has no difficulty distinguishing between shadows and objects. Chickens have an incredible ability to navigate three-dimensional space at high speed with pinpoint accuracy. As you would expect from creatures that fly, they have sharp vision, and their reflexes are faster than a human’s. Ask anyone who keeps chickens and has had to shoo one out of the house. A chicken nesting on the living room sofa can slip past you, dash under the table, fly up, bank sharply through the kitchen door, land on the counter, instantly recognize your lunch, and eat the tastiest morsels in less time than it takes to tell. No supercomputer can rival this performance. I doubt any computer in the next 50 years will pass the Turing test, but it seems likely they will at least compete with mice and chicken brains in simple tasks such as recognizing objects, and moving around in three-dimensional space. These abilities will give them enormous new capabilities" <much more>
