Comments on Would You Like to Play a Game?
Whopper in the house!!
Does this mean the Day of Reckoning is coming?
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than humans...
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War!
isn't this a ripoff from terminator?
Hasta la vista, Palestinians!
Also worth mentioning, on the same blog, is yesterday's story of an Isreali robot SHOOTING AND THEN CRUSHING a would-be suicide bomber. What would Asimov say?
Warning: gruesome (but note the shotgun bolted to its arm as its tread grind the corpse into the pavement):
I love that movie. Joshua...
Oops, launched another nuke!
There goes the Middle East!
(and the concept of nuking Palestine is like Fremont nuking Capitol Hill - we'd all die in the firestorm and radiation blast)
omg, someone get John Connor. Jewish Skynet will be sentient before we know it.
One of my electrical engineering professors had an interesting story from the time he worked at NORAD in the late 70s. Evidently they had a cluster of VAX computers networked together that drove a number of defense systems, and one day a single logic chip in one of the machines went haywire, sending out random binary gibberish to other nodes on the network.
Those other machines were built to "tolerate" failures like that by ignoring any sequences they didn't understand. However, just by random chance the gibberish would occasionally line up with an actual meaningful instruction, and soon the computers began to light up with false targets and indications of missile launches. Evidently things got pretty high up the chain of command before they figured out it was all bogus.
It's "Shall we play a game?"
Not "Do you feel like maybe playing a game or something?"
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