Adaptable robots 'on their way' to the home ....... AI Tech (DeepMind) Concepts are coming together.

[Cidersomerset]

Many people not into alternate news & articles do not believe or choose , just to
ignore information of any kind until its on the BBC , CNN , ABC etc....mainstream .
So when I noticed this on the BBC site just now it tickled me because it sounded a
bit alternate LOL and I wonder if our mainstream friends will now believe this is not
sky -fy of the far future but nearer to here and now...

Two recent threads tie in with this as with several others put up lately by other
members. With robots fixing themselves/adapting its another cog into AI and
androids of all descriptions. Google's Artificial Intelligence Plans include buying
Deepmind and teaming up with NASA. They say its peaceful civil use , but the
military are never far away with any new concepts especially in the AI or robotics
field I would of thought.

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Google Buys Into Artificial Intelligence

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Science & Environment
Adaptable robots 'on their way' to the home

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News
2 hours ago
From the section Science & Environment

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Watch the spider-like robot adapt to a broken leg

Researchers have developed robots that learn to live with damaged parts in less than a
minute, instead of the many hours needed by traditional self-learning systems. The
system paves the way for robots to be used in a wide variety of settings, coping with
damage that occurs in the real world. Possible applications include robots looking after
the elderly, rescuing earthquake victims or doing housework.

Details are in the journal Nature.

Having the kind of intelligent robots you see in the movies is much closer than people
realise Dr Jeff Clune, University of Wyoming

We marvel at the robots we see in films: some try to wipe out humanity, such as Ultron
in the recent Avengers film, while others like C-3PO in Star Wars are helpful albeit
slightly annoying. But they are the still the stuff of science fiction, partly because if the
slightest thing goes wrong with a real-life robot it usually stops working altogether.
In a step towards making the machines of the movies a reality, French and US
researchers have developed a learning algorithm that enables robots to adapt very
quickly when they are damaged. Factory and laboratory robots have a strictly pre-
defined way of operating. So if a component breaks, it normally has to be replaced for
the robot to continue with its task.

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The friendly face of the future? The robots we see in films may be closer than many
people realise Most self-learning systems that seek alternative ways of continuing with
the task are too slow, because they try out billions of possibilities. Using software that
filters out the ineffective strategies, the new system vastly speeds up the process.

The team demonstrated the principles with a six-legged, spider-like robot that found a
new way of crawling across the floor after one of its legs was broken. They also unveiled
a robotic arm that could adapt to a broken joint and learn a new way to drop a ball in a
bin.In both instances, the robots were able to learn a new strategy to complete their
task in less than a minute. Traditional self-learning systems would have taken days.

According to Dr Jeff Clune of the University of Wyoming, the development represents an
important first step toward robots that are able to operate independently, outside of the
carefully controlled confines of a laboratory or factory floor.

We would like to put these robots outside of factories to help in the outside world,
where anything can happen

Dr Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Pierre and Marie Curie University

"Having the kind of intelligent robots you see in the movies is much closer than people
realise. Our algorithm should in principle work on any kind of robot no matter how
complex it is," he told BBC News.

"If anyone can get a working C-3PO, our algorithm could help it to deal with unforeseen
situations and damage."

Sampling strategies

The new system uses a computer simulation to filter out all the possible solutions that
will not work well. It then collects the ones that are both effective and different from
each other, so that the robot does not waste time testing out similar strategies.

Next, the robot tries out what the simulation predicts will be the best solution. If that
fails, it tries out something entirely different. It carries on doing this until it finds a
strategy that works.

The research points the way to robots that are more robust, adaptable and cheaper to
maintain than today's machines, according to senior author Jean-Baptiste Mouret, from
Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.

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Is this spider robot that the first of a new generation of adaptable machines?

"If you have robots in your home they would probably be expensive and you would not
want them to stop working if a small part breaks," he told BBC News.

"Robots are used in factories because they are a controlled environment and nothing
unexpected can happen to them. We would like to put these robots outside of factories
to help in the outside world, where anything can happen."

Alongside recent advances in artificial intelligence, such as the self-learning system
developed by Google's DeepMind Technologies, this development could see the
emergence of new uses for robots.

"The things (DeepMind) is working on are amazing," says Dr Clune. "(Together) we will
bring closer a future where robots are helping humans.

Marching robots

Does the march of the machines start now? Recent advances in artificial intelligence
could soon lead them out of the factory floor and into the home.

"We should be sending robots into Fukushima instead of asking human volunteers to
take lethal doses of radiation. Robots should be putting out forest fires so we don't have
to risk human lives and they should be used to help us in our homes," he said.

Home help

Among the ideas for household robots are machines for cleaning, cooking, or loading
and unloading dishwashers. Most of the development of the system was done by
Antoine Cully, a PhD student working with Dr Mouret. He says one of his principal
motivations was to help those who are infirm.

"I hope we can have robots that are assistants for the elderly," he said.

Dr Clune, though, believes this technology could have applications at the other end of
the age spectrum.

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Does the march of the machines start now? Recent advances in artificial intelligence
could soon lead them out of the factory floor and into the home.


He has very recently become a father, whose newborn child has been keeping him
awake into the early hours of the night. He confesses that he has spent the extra
sleepless hours pondering "long and hard" whether he could use the new system to
create a robot that can soothe a crying baby.

"Necessity is the mother of invention, so maybe that will be my next invention," he
joked. But I was left with the impression that his comments were not entirely in jest.

Follow Pallab on Twitter

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Demis Hassaabis, founder of Deepmind, on the potential of Artificial intellgience to solve
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[Cidersomerset]

Unfortunately as soon as there is a civilian AI Android/Robot , the military
will want to weaponize them. Some top scientists and businessmen are speaking
out but we know what the Pentagon and others will want , bigger and better
killing droids than those pesky Ruskies , Chinese & our guys Al Q , ISSIS/ IL
or whatever we change their name. But we will give/Aid them to Israel and sell
them to our other 'Besties'...LOL

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GLOBAL RESEARCH.....

US Army to Replace Human Soldiers with “Humanoid Robots”
By Global Research News
Global Research, March 03, 2014
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By Christopher Scholl

originally published and copyright by Who What Why

What will a robot army look like? Or more important, how will it behave?

These questions are timely ones given the Army general who in January announced
to a symposium in Arlington, Virginia, that he had “clear guidance” to explore the
replacement of human forces with robot ones.

General Robert Cone, Commander of the Army Training and Doctrine Command,
told the audience his team is researching the feasibility of shrinking the size of the
brigade combat team from about 4,000 soldiers to 3,000 over the coming years,
filling the gap with robots.

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Cone’s comments come at a time when the Secretary of Defense is already
planning other ways to shrink the Army to its smallest size since before World War
II.While the military’s interest in a robotic force is hardly new, and ground robots
that crawl or roll are already being deployed, an army of humanoid robots seems
inevitable.

The Department of Defense issued a Directive in 2013 titled “Autonomy in Weapons
Systems”—another sign of how seriously the military is taking this. Among other
things, it “Establishes guidelines designed to minimize [emphasis added] the
probability and consequences of failures in autonomous and semi-autonomous
weapon systems that could lead to unintended engagements.” But the directive
also requires that the robots will “Function as anticipated in realistic operational
environments against adaptive adversaries.”

Coping with “adaptive adversaries” implies at least a degree of autonomy—and that
is a discomforting notion for some. Opponents of these looming “soldiers” have
already formed an online campaign, the “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots,” which
argues that “Giving machines the power to decide who lives and dies on the
battlefield is an unacceptable application of technology.”

DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—has been actively
funding robot research for years and this past summer showcased “one of the most
advanced humanoid robots ever built”: a stocky 6’ 2” behemoth of a bot
named “Atlas.” Its creators at Boston Dynamics (a company recently acquired by
none other than Google, Inc.) say it is designed for disaster response, such as
nuclear and chemical incidents. Atlas has no weapons, but it’s not hard not to blink
your eyes and imagine a potential military future.

What makes Atlas most remarkable is its “humanoid” scale. It walks with two legs,
has two arms, a bit of a head (maybe that’s a stretch), and moves in ways we find
eerily familiar—not at all the sort of robot we see in use by the military today. The
latter are usually four wheeled tractor-like creations with nifty arms. No, Atlas
seems, well, human. It’s the difference between R2D2 and C3PO, to put it in terms
Darth Vader might understand.

Humanoid robots are taking longer to develop not simply because they are more
complicated—and they are—but because we want them to be almost human. That
is a very high bar, but evidently not an insurmountable one.

Not only are such robots destined to be especially lethal, they may take on near-
sentient capabilities at some point if quantum-computing powers ever fully develop.
Quantum computing, in a nutshell, will allow for simultaneous calculations that
modern computers can’t begin to approach—untold millions of tiny decisions being
made at once. Not even a human brain can do that. There are physicists who claim
to have proven that quantum computing is possible, demonstrating their success
with calculators running “quantum” math. Most suggest it’s only a matter of time
before quantum computers evolve. When that happens, quantum robot “brains,”
technically superior to our own (in some ways), will surely not be far behind.

When that day comes, and it could be sooner than you think, General Cone and
others in the military will have their…man.

Watch the video to see Atlas doing “his” thing, after a brief animated introduction.

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Scientists join Elon Musk & Stephen Hawking, warn of dangerous AI

Wednesday 14th January 2015 at 06:54 By

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‘Hundreds of leading scientists and technologists have joined Stephen Hawking and
Elon Musk in warning of the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence,
signing an open letter calling for research on how to avoid harming humanity.

The open letter, drafted by the Future of Life Institute and signed by hundreds of
academics and technologists, calls on the artificial intelligence science community
to not only invest in research into making good decisions and plans for the future,
but to also thoroughly check how those advances might affect society.’

Read more: Scientists join Elon Musk & Stephen Hawking, warn of dangerous AI

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‘Hundreds of leading scientists and technologists have joined Stephen Hawking and
Elon Musk in warning of the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence,
signing an open letter calling for research on how to avoid harming humanity.

The open letter, drafted by the Future of Life Institute and signed by hundreds of
academics and technologists, calls on the artificial intelligence science community
to not only invest in research into making good decisions and plans for the future,
but to also thoroughly check how those advances might affect society.’

Read more: Scientists join Elon Musk & Stephen Hawking, warn of dangerous AI

http://www.techswarm.com/2015/01/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-eradicatng.html

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[wnlight]

Can you imagine placing your infant child into the arms of a robot (of any kind) and then being able to sleep?

[grannyfranny100]

Cidersomerset, thank you for posting with enough data including videos so we can be better educated about this fast approaching era. Although it mentioned some resistance from the scientific community, it does not seem to include people from other areas that engage in ethics, et al.

[Cidersomerset]

Killer robots will leave humans ‘utterly defenceless’ warns professor

Thursday 28th May 2015 at 08:59 By David Icke


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Killer robots will leave humans 'utterly defenceless' warns professor

Robots, called LAWS – lethal autonomous weapons systems – will be
able to kill without human intervention

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Killer robots in development could leave humans 'uttlery defenceless' a leading academic has warned

‘Killer robots which are being developed by the US military ‘will leave
humans utterly defenceless‘, an academic has warned.

Two programmes commissioned by the US Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) are seeking to create drones which can track
and kill targets even when out of contact with their handlers.

Writing in the journal Nature, Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science
at the University of California, Berkley, said the research could breach the
Geneva Convention and leave humanity in the hands of amoral machines.

“Autonomous weapons systems select and engage targets without human
intervention; they become lethal when those targets include humans,” he said.’


“Existing AI and robotics components can provide physical platforms, perception,
motor control, navigation, mapping, tactical decision-making and long-term
planning. They just need to be combined. “In my view, the overriding concern
should be the probable endpoint of this technological trajectory.

“Despite the limits imposed by physics, one can expect platforms deployed in the
millions, the agility and lethality of which will leave humans utterly defenceless.
This is not a desirable future.”

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Some experts say armed killer robots are just a ' small step' away

• Killer robots a small step away and must be outlawed, says UN official
• Britain prepared to develop 'killer robots', minister says

The robots, called LAWS – lethal autonomous weapons systems – are likely
to be armed quadcopters of mini-tanks that can decided without human
intervention who should live or die.

DARPA is currently working on two projects which could lead to killer bots.
One is Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) which is designing a tiny rotorcraft
to manoeuvre unaided at high speed in urban areas and inside buildings.
The other and Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE), is
aiming to develop teams of autonomous aerial vehicles carrying out “all
steps of a strike mission — find, fix, track, target, engage, assess” in
situations in which enemy signal-jamming makes communication with a
human commander impossible.

Last year Angela Kane, the UN’s high representative for disarmament,
said killer robots were just a 'small step' away and called for a worldwide
ban. But the Foreign Office has said while the technology had potentially
"terrifying" implications, Britain "reserves the right" to develop it to protect troops.

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Professor Russell said: "LAWS could violate fundamental principles of
human dignity by allowing machines to choose whom to kill — for example,
they might be tasked to eliminate anyone exhibiting ‘threatening behaviour’

“Debates should be organized at scientific meetings; arguments studied by
ethics committees. Doing nothing is a vote in favour of continued development
and deployment.”

• The US army tests a killer robot tank
• Future robots will resemble ostriches or dinosaurs, scientists say

However Dr Sabine Hauert, a lecturer in robotics at the University of Bristol said
that the public did not need to fear the developments in aritifical intelligence.

“My colleagues and I spend dinner parties explaining that we are not evil but
instead have been working for years to develop systems that could help the
elderly, improve health care, make jobs safer and more efficient, and allow
us to explore space or beneath the ocean,” she said.

Read more: Killer robots will leave humans 'utterly defenceless' warns professor

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'Autonomous 'killer robots' could replace drones soon' - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams

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ublished on 13 Jan 2014


What was science fiction a couple of decades ago is now everyday reality. But it's
not only computers and smartphones -- the progress has brought us new war
machines -- unmanned drones striking from the skies are no surprise for anyone
today. But what has the progress of warfare prepared for us in the coming years?
Today we speak to Jody Williams, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning woman, who has
fought against landmines -- and won. Now she is on a crusade against the new
deadly threat -- killer robots.

FULL SCRIPT: http://on.rt.com/9smwp3

[Camilo]

I read an article las week (can't find it now), about people having sex with robots designed just for that purpose.

[Cidersomerset]

‘Robot doctor’ performs anesthesia – the Brave New World of machines doing everything

Thursday 28th May 2015 at 07:36 By David Icke


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Eight Ways Robots Are Taking Over Our Jobs and Our World

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‘One of the next great challenges American workers are starting to face is the increasing
automation of jobs that previously could only be done by a living, breathing human being.
Here are eight jobs that robots are taking over as they take over the world:’

Read more …

http://www.alternet.org/labor/8-ways-robots-are-taking-over-our-jobs-and-our-world

[Cidersomerset]

I read an article las week (can't find it now), about people having sex with robots designed just for that purpose.

They seem to looking for pleasure dolls, all the functions of all the 'Robot/Android memes in all the books
and movies over the last entury or so , seems to coming to reality .......as in the previous thread I linked
above.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?81614-Aye-robot-Amazingly-lifelike-humanoid-another-Star-Trek-concept-well-on-the-way-IS-DATA-Sentient&p=954004#post954004


Aye, robot? Amazingly lifelike humanoid another Star Trek concept well on the way IS DATA Sentient ?


DATA was a concept that in the future AI's would be created and over the course of
the TV series many moral questions were asked of it and its evolution into a sentient
being which in the end DATA was classed as a new sentient life form. Obviously
DATA was played excellently by a human actor Brent Spiner. There have been
many movies on the subject from Blade Runner to the recent movie Chappie with
lots of good , bad and scary ones in between. But as with a lot of other Science /
Scy -fy concepts robotics and AI's have come a long way and it is only a matter of
time.before they are sentient .


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Captain Picard argues for Commander Data's right to be viewed as a sentient being.


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CHAPPIE Trailer (Official HD

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Synopsis: In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police
force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is
stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to
think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a
danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo
and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind.


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Aye, robot? Amazingly lifelike humanoid that can react to facial expressions,
engage in conversation and even make eye contact

new Sunday 19th April 2015 at 08:56 By David Icke

Hanson Robotics reveal facial expressions of humanoid 'Jules'

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Terrifying Animatronic Robot Dances To Blurred Lines, Causes Nightmares

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Published on 25 Mar 2014


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Aye, robot? Amazingly lifelike humanoid that can react to facial expressions,
engage in conversation and even make eye contact
Robot has been drawing crowds at Hong Kong electronics event this week
It can recognise and respond to human facial expressions in natural way
Known as Ham, the head was designed by US firm Hanson Robotics
Made using soft-bodied mechanical engineering and nanotechnology

By Jack Crone for MailOnline

Published: 18:14, 18 April 2015 | Updated: 18:55, 18 April 2015

‘With his lively eyebrows, winkled cheeks and eyes that follow you around the room –
this state-of-the-art robotic head is menacingly lifelike.The humanoid, known as
Ham, has been drawing in crowds with his incredible range of facial expressions at
an electronics event in Hong Kong this week.The head, designed by American
robotics designer David Hanson, is able to answer basic questions and can also be
used in the simulation of medical scenarios.’

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Incredibly lifelike: Known as Ham, this humanoid is made using specialised
software and can recognise and respond to facial expressions

Ham is currently on exhibit at the Global Sources spring electronics show at
AsiaWorld Expo - the largest event of its kind in the world, with more than 4,000
booths displaying the latest gadgets.

The head is created with malleable material called Frubber using soft-bodied
mechanical engineering and nanotechnology.It contains realistic pores that
measure just 4 to 40 nanometers across (there are 10million nanometers in one
centimetre).


Using specialised software the machine can recognise and respond to a number of
human facial expressions in a natural way.

According to Hanson Robotics's website, the humanoids can actually see your face,
make eye contact with you, and understand speech to 'engage you in witty dialogue'.

Such reactions are a major feat of engineering, according to chief designer David
Hanson, the founder and and president of Hanson Robotics.

Reactive: The robot smiles using multiple motors - which whir into action and
subtly adjust multiple points of articulation around his mouth and brown eyes

State-of-the-art: The head is created with malleable material using soft-bodied
mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. It contains realistic pores that
measure just 4 to 40 nanometers across (there are 10million nanometers in one centimetre)

It is not the first human-looking robot that his firm has created either. An earlier
version of Ham drew headlines as it was sculpted to look like Albert Einstein,
complete with a bushy moustache and a shock of white hair.

The Einstein humanoid made facial expressions by using multiple motors - which
whirl into action and subtly adjust multiple points of articulation around his mouth
and brown eyes. Mr Hanson sees robotics as his calling and works on many fronts,
from sculpting features to developing artificial intelligence.

To advance to the next step of producing robots for everyday applications in
entertainment, health care and education, he decided to move to Hong Kong with
his family - his wife Amanda and their son Zeno.The city has a booming robotics
community with a high amount of expertise and design infrastructure and new
technology can be developed at a lower cost than in the US.


Hanson Robotics reveal facial expressions of humanoid 'Jules'

Using specialised software the machine can recognise and respond to a number of
human facial expressions in a natural way Leading designer: Mr Hanson sees
robotics as his calling and works on many fronts, from sculpting features to
developing artificial intelligence

On show: Ham is currently on exhibit at the Global Sources spring electronics show
at AsiaWorld Expo - the largest event of its kind in the world

Previous model: The Einstein robot

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Hanson Robotics' android portrait of Einstein, built with the Hubo Group at KAIST, and UTA.


Previous model: The Einstein robot, which made its public debut at the Technology,
Entertainment and Design conference in the U.S in 2009, was developed at the
University of California (UC)


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Invertuality: Jules says goodbye...

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Uploaded on 20 Nov 2006


Jules is a Conversational Character Robot designed and built by David Hanson. Jules is
Ai, made with a light weight material called Frubber™ , which enables his/her face to be
mobile and expressive. Jules runs on batteries and was commissioned by the UWE with
a statistically perfect androgynous face.
Go to HANSONROBOTICS.COM to learn more...

[Cidersomerset]

Cidersomerset, thank you for posting with enough data including videos so we
can be better educated about this fast approaching era. Although it mentioned some
resistance from the scientific community, it does not seem to include people from other
areas that engage in ethics, et al.

There are other people like Jody Williams in the above RT vid in Sophie and Co. and
in this one .Although robots have been around in industry like the automobile ind
for decades etc and in various military roles like bomb disposal and search and
rescue. Its only in the last decade that all the componants to make the kind of
Android/robot in the movie Blade Runner or Star Treks Data or Star Wars C3 PO or
R2 D2.....Most post 1980's children are fully aware of arcade and computer games
and also over the last couple decades interactive games mainly military oriented
one way or another means young soldiers are already to accept AI and robots in
all walks of life from health to the battlefield ..............

The Dawn of Killer Robots (Full Length)

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Published on 16 Apr 2015


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In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb
disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA’s
six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams,
renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial
intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It’s a
story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines
bodes for the future of war and the human race.

Read Now: The Evil 'Star Wars' Robot Who Owns the Term 'Meatbag' - http://bit.ly/1Hy6KLU


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Its in our psyche...........

The Last Starfighter Theatrical Trailer

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ENDER'S GAME -- Trailer

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Published on 7 May 2013


ENDER'S GAME is an epic adventure starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee
Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis and Abigail Breslin. Based on the best-selling,
award winning novel. Only in theaters November 1, 2013.

[grannyfranny100]

Will these robots fit in the hall closet like the vacuum cleaner? Will they come with their own free mini-robot to dust it off? Some of them seem to have so many holes and semi exposed wires that will need to cleaned off- can we hose them down in the garage? Will it be programed with a vocabulary including the F word? I wouldn't want that around my babies.

If I didn't laugh about this.......Oh I guess the robot could follow me and hand me tissues!:(

[Cidersomerset]

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates now repeating the same urgent
warnings for humanity first issued by the Independent Media years ago

new Sunday 31st May 2015 at 07:06 By David Icke


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Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates now repeating the same urgent
warnings for humanity first issued by the Independent Media years ago

Saturday, May 30, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: Elon Musk, rise of the robots, runaway science


‘Elon Musk warns that artificial intelligence may spiral out of control and give rise
to self-replicating machines that destroy humanity. Stephen Hawking mirrors the
same warning with even more dire language about the future of human civilization
and its survival in the universe. Bill Gates warns that a killer flu pandemic could
wipe out a substantial portion of the human race, spreading uncontrollably across
the planet and causing widespread fatalities.

What do all these dire warnings have in common? They’re things that I and many
other people have been warning about for years.’

Read more: Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates now repeating the same urgent
warnings for humanity first issued by the Independent Media years ago


http://www.naturalnews.com/049898_Elon_Musk_rise_of_the_robots_runaway_science.html

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Rise of the Machines? You may lose your job soon...to a robot

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Published on 7 Jun 2015


What do you think about robots? Love them, hate them? Well if you haven't
decided yet think of this - almost half of US jobs can be automated. Marina Portnaya reports.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Carmody]

The precursor for the AI hardware just publicly arrived on the scientific scene.

I was hoping that it would be delayed for as long as possible.

No, I won't tell you what it is. The fewer that know, the better, as that means it will take longer to come into being.

'tis my fate to be coupled to these things, I guess.

This means I'll have to move into making 'the good result', ie, the counter argument, the counter potential ---has to be brought into being.

[Carmody]

The precursor for the AI hardware just publicly arrived on the scientific scene.

I was hoping that it would be delayed for as long as possible.

No, I won't tell you what it is. The fewer that know, the better, as that means it will take longer to come into being.

'tis my fate to be coupled to these things, I guess.

This means I'll have to move into making 'the good result', ie, the counter argument, the counter potential ---has to be brought into being.


That brought out the low level military/black helicopter flyover, in no time at all......

[Cidersomerset]

Google’s Ray Kurzweil says humans will have ‘hybrid’ cloud-powered brains by 2030

By David Icke on 5th June 2015 Corporate Crime, Illuminati Criminals, Medical/Health, New Physics


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Google’s Ray Kurzweil says humans will have 'hybrid' cloud-powered brains by 2030

Published time: June 04, 2015 19:07

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Inventor Ray Kurzweil (AFP Photo)

‘Within 15 years, humans will be implanted with nanobots that will connect their brains to the internet,
allowing for vastly accelerated cognition. Ten years after that, most of our thinking “will be done online,”
according to futurologist Ray Kurzweil.

“Our thinking then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking. We’ll be able to extend our
limitations and think in the cloud. We’re going to put gateways to the cloud in our brains,” said Kurzweil,
director of engineering at Google, during a keynote speech at the Exponential Finance conference in New York.

“We’re going to gradually merge and enhance ourselves. In my view, that’s the nature of being human
– we transcend our limitations.”’

The 67-year-old Kurzweil made his name inventing technologies that turn handwriting and speech into
digital output, as well as a popular line of synthesizers. As director of engineering at Google, a post he
has occupied since 2012, he is pushing his research even further – trying to improve computers’ ability
to understand natural language, and eventually aiming to create true artificial intelligence that will allow
computers to truly interact with humans.

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However, his public profile is owed largely to his bold predictions of technological progress, which he has
detailed in several books, and countless speeches. Kurzweil is particularly fixated on singularity, the
moment artificial intelligence exceeds human capacity (which he currently predicts in 2045), creating
potential for progress and change we cannot even envisage. A “hybrid brain” is a step on that path.

Yet even the ever optimistic Kurzweil – who takes more than 100 supplements a day, and says he plans
to live forever with the help of constantly improving medical science – sounded a note of caution.

“As I wrote starting 20 years ago, technology is a double-edged sword. Fire kept us warm and cooked our
food but also burnt down our houses. Every technology has had its promise and peril,” he told the audience.

Others say that the main peril in Kurzweil’s predictions is they are vague and elastic, or consistently
over-ambitious. In 1990 he said that by 2020 there would be a new world government, and in 1999 he
opined that by 2019 we would be dealing with personalized virtual shopkeepers, bankers and sales in
most of our business transactions.

Yet some of his more grounded predictions, such as the fact that most computers would communicate
wirelessly and that people would give voice commands to their handheld computer, have been proved
correct. In New York, Kurzweil defended his record, saying 94 percent of his 1999 predictions have
turned out to be true.


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A Google self-driving vehicle drives around the parking lot at the Computer History Museum after a
presentation in Mountain View, California May 13, 2014. (Reuters/Stephen Lam)


“Now that’s not completely wrong,” Kurzwell said of his prediction that there would be driverless cars
on the highways by 2009. “If I had said 2015, I think it would’ve been correct, but they’re still not in
mainstream use. So even the predictions that were wrong were directionally correct.”

Of course, with Google being a market leader in self-driving vehicles, Kurzweil, who also predicted and
also helped develop Google Glass, is not just a disinterested observer.

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A woman wears Google glasses after a media presentation of a Google apartment in Prague May 15,
2014. (Reuters/David W Cerny)


But while the path of technology in his earlier predictions seemed gradual and comprehensible, in his
latest speech Kurzweil failed to describe exactly what kind of nanobots would have to be injected into
the human brain or how they would interact with the cloud. In fact, he offered no practical details as
to how he expects his prediction of hybrid brains to come true by 2030.


Read more: Google’s Ray Kurzweil says humans will have 'hybrid' cloud-powered brains by 2030

http://rt.com/usa/265029-kurzweil-google-hybrid-brain/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome


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The Technology of Self-driven Cars, Trucks and Buses

By David Icke on 14th June 2015 Illuminati Criminals, New Physics

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‘Many people are excited about the prospect of having a self-driven car. They
envision sitting comfortably in the vehicle, reading their paper, or catching up on
work.Experts are telling us that there will be millions of fewer road deaths and,
once the technology is developed, probably big financial savings.

At first glance, it sounds great, and after a long period of adjustment, it no doubt
will mean big gains for us all.

But for several years there will be a huge downside. Businesses are licking their
chops, looking forward to having fleets of self-driven vehicles. Millions of truckers
will lose their jobs.’

Read more: The Technology of Self-driven Cars, Trucks and Buses

http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/driver-less-vehicles-have-a-huge-downside/

[Cidersomerset]

Bilderberg 2015: Implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Grid

By David Icke on 10th June 2015 New Physics

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ACTIVIST POST...........



Monday, June 8, 2015
Bilderberg 2015: Implementation of the A.I. Grid


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Regina’s All-Seeing Eye.

By Jay Dyer

”The plan to integrate nations into continental trading blocs is not a new idea. In Dr. Carroll Quigley’s
Tragedy and Hope, reference is made to the plan of the Third Reich to create global trading blocs, which
itself is an older British Royal Society plan. Daniel Estulin, in his The Bilderberg Group and Shadow
Masters provides detailed investigations into both Bilderberg and its many-headed Hydra organization,
exemplified in Captain America 2: Winter Soldier. Founded by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, as
well as numerous other Atlanticist elites like David Rockefeller, Paul Van Zeeland and numerous other
media barons, corporate heads, bankers, and countless other people better than us.

Bilderberg, operating under the guise of “free market capitalism,” represents instead the complete
culmination of banking corporate world control. Presented as yet another debate forum, the secretive
meetings instead have been revealed in numerous cases to have driven global policy. The most shining
example is the 1955 Bilderberg meeting’s plans for the creation of the “European Common Market” and
“European Union (Unity) shown below. It is important to recall that the European Common Market came
into play some three years later in 1958, while the European Union itself was supposedly founded in 1993.
With this in mind, we can see how the TTIP is simply a further extension of the same strategy of economic
integration, from the EU to NAFTA.


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1955 Bilderberg document highlighting the coming European Union reproduced in Estulin’s Shadow Masters.

In other words, what the banksters planned in secret in 1955 was made public in 1993, having been
implemented in gradual, incremental stages. Indeed, it was the post-World War II era that created
all these entities – the U.N., Bretton Woods and the IMF and World Bank, etc. All of these entities,
including Bilderberg, are part of the same power structure that coordinated the last century’s wars
for the sole purpose of a world government, all of which is spelled out in Quigley’s CFR archives-based
tome, Tragedy and Hope. Thus, while the populations still think their national governments are at war
with other nation-states and market economies are driving economic surplus, the reality is that most
nation-states are subsidiaries of the Atlanticist power bloc whose sights are set on the dismantling of
Russia, as Estulin’s Shadow Masters details.

Like last year’s Bilderberg meeting, the whispers are this year will discuss the implementation and rollout
of artificial intelligence. 2015 has seen a tremendous push for the acceptance of automation, from robots
in the workplace, to driverless cars, to implantable microchips. Transhumanism is now a buzzword, and
we in the alternative media community have been vindicated countless times in calling attention to the
unified agenda of selling the masses on the acceptance of the new religious ideology. JaysAnalysis has
highlighted this takeover plan from older Pentagon documents, as well as its selling point in countless
Hollywood blockbusters (and here).

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This year, former DARPA head turned Google exec, Regina Dugan will be speaking, vindicating JaysAnalysis’
identifying Dugan as a key player to watch back in 2012. In 2013, Dugan gave a talk telling the audience the
future of the microchip will be an ingestible form, as well as tattooed RFID tracking. Dugan’s Ted Talks and
lectures detailed the technological side of the pyramid’s plans for rolling out the “Smart” drones, and when
read in convert with IBM CEO Ginny Rommety’s lectures on SmartCities and “pre-crime,” we can see the
unified plan of the technocrats. Detailing hundreds of similar examples, what is most difficult to convey is
the unified nature of the overall plan, from economic “reform” and “free market shock therapy austerity,”
to the implementation of the Smart grid/A.I. takeover, to the bio-chemical dysgenics operations, the Atlanticist
plans are unified, strategic, and full-spectrum. They cover the entire domain of human experience, as well as
the entire biosphere. The transition to SmartCities is the ultimate goal of the Green/Agenda 21 plan, as the
below UK think tank Forum for the Future propaganda video demonstrates


Read more: Bilderberg 2015: Implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Grid

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/bilderberg-2015-implementation-of-ai.html


Related....
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?82916-David-Icke-Bilderberg-2015-The-Key-Agenda..-..-Why-is-the-BBC-reporting-Bilderberge-2015

[Cidersomerset]

Jurassic World of Genetically Modified Simulacra

By ickonic on 27th June 2015 Corporate Crime, Illuminati Criminals, New Physics

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WAKING TIMES..............

By WakingTimes June 26, 2015


Jurassic World of Genetically Modified Simulacra

Jay Dyer, Guest
Waking Times

‘Jurassic World is the sometime sequel to whatever the last Jurassic film was. In Jurassic Park,
a ill-conceived theme park based on genetic resurrecting of the dinosaur all-star team. Now,
Hollywood shows it’s gone fully green in recycling the same plot for a new audience of zombies
with Frankensaurus Rex.

While the JurassicPlot (that’s a joke) is only a sliver different from the first, this time around
genetic modification has transformed the resurrected dinos into GMdinO hybrids despite the
chaos unleashed in the original park: In this respect the human inability to learn from the past
is accurate. As such, the heights of absurdity cannot be over emphasized, as the descent of
Hollywood into a simulacra of a simulation takes meta to a new level of entertainment
irrelevance and non-being.’

Think of it – a theme park is a synthetic reality. In it, humans escape “reality” for a period of a
few days in a false world of entertainment, hedonistic abandon, guttural consumption, and the
latest in smoke and mirrors stagecraft wizardry. And following this week of escape, Amerikans
(especially) return to the real world – of entertainment, hedonistic abandon, guttural consumption
and the latest in smoke and mirrors stagecraft sports spectacles. On top of this, Jurassic World
is a film (synthetic reality) about a synthetic reality, and for much of the film, we are watching
the surveillance team of Jurassic World watch the fake world of Jurassic World. So, to recap for
those lost in the meta, a fake Amerikan populace is watching a false reality about a false reality
within a false reality. Onion rings of false realities! Would you like any CGI fries with those
illusory onion rings?


Read more: Jurassic World of Genetically Modified Simulacra

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/06/26/jurassic-world-of-genetically-modified-simulacra/

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Extant - Bullied

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Threat from Artificial Intelligence not just Hollywood fantasy

By ickonic on 28th June 2015 New Physics


THE TELEGRAPH...............

Threat from Artificial Intelligence not just Hollywood fantasy

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‘From the dystopian writings of Aldous Huxley and HG Wells to the sinister and apocalyptic
vision of modern Hollywood blockbusters, the rise of the machines has long terrified mankind.

But it now seems that the brave new world of science-fiction could become all too real.
An Oxford academic is warning that humanity runs the risk of creating super intelligent
computers that eventually destroy us all, even when specifically instructed not to harm people.

Dr Stuart Armstrong, of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, has predicted
a future where machines run by artificial intelligence become so indispensable in human lives
they eventually make us redundant and take over.’


And he says his alarming vision could happen as soon as the next few decades.


Dr Armstrong said: "Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest,
but because we're the smartest. "When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be
handing them the steering wheel." He spoke as films and TV dramas such as Channel 4's
Humans and Ex-Machina, - which both explore the blurred lines between man and robot
- have once again tapped into man's fear of creating a machine that will eventually come
to dominate him. Dr Armstrong envisages machines capable of harnessing such large
amounts of computing power, and at speeds inconceivable to the human brain, that they
will eventually create global networks with each other - communicating without human
interference. It is at that point that what is called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- in contrast to computers that carry out specific, limited, tasks, such as driverless cars
- will be able to take over entire transport systems, national economies, financial markets,
healthcare systems and product distribution.

"Anything you can imagine the human race doing over the next 100 years there's the
possibility AGI will do very, very fast," he said.

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Channel four's show, Humans

But while handing over mundane tasks to machines may initially appear attractive, it
contains within it the seeds of our own destruction. In attempting to limit the powers
of such super AGIs mankind could unwittingly be signing its own death warrant.

Indeed, Dr Armstrong warns that the seemingly benign instruction to an AGI to "prevent
human suffering", could logically be interpreted by a super computer as "kill all humans",
thereby ending suffering all together.

Furthermore, an instruction such as "keep humans safe and happy", could be translated
by the remorseless digital logic of a machine as "entomb everyone in concrete coffins
on heroin drips".

While that may sound far fetched, Dr Armstrong says the risk is not so low that it can be ignored.

"There is a risk of this kind of pernicious behaviour by a AI," he said, pointing out that the nuances
of human language make it all too easily liable to misinterpretation by a computer. "You can give AI
controls, and it will be under the controls it was given. But these may not be the controls that were meant."

Dr Armstrong, who was speaking at a debate on artificial intelligence organised in London by the
technology research firm Gartner, warns that it will be difficult to tell whether a machine is
developing in a benign or deadly direction.

He says an AI would always appear to act in a way that was beneficial to humanity, making itself
useful and indispensable - much like the iPhone's Siri, which answers questions and performs
simple organisational tasks - until the moment it could logically take over all functions.

"As AIs get more powerful anything that is solvable by cognitive processes, such as ill health, cancer,
depression, boredom, becomes solvable," he says. "And we are almost at the point of generating an
AI that is as intelligent as humans."

Dr Armstrong says mankind is now involved in a race to create 'safe AI' before it is too late.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator in Terminator Genisys

"Plans for safe AI must be developed before the first dangerous AI is created," he writes in his book
Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence. "The software industry is worth many billions of
dollars, and much effort is being devoted to new AI technologies. "Plans to slow down this rate of
development seem unrealistic. So we have to race toward the distant destination of safe AI and get
there fast, outrunning the progress of the computer industry."

One solution to the dangers of untrammelled AI suggested by industry experts and researchers is to
teach super computers a moral code.

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Unfortunately, Dr Armstrong points out, mankind has spent thousands of years
debating morality and ethical behaviour without coming up with a simple set of
instructions applicable in all circumstances which it can follow.

Imagine then, the difficulty in teaching a machine to make subtle distinctions
between right and wrong.

"Humans are very hard to learn moral behaviour from," he says. "They would make
very bad role models for AIs."


Read more: Threat from Artificial Intelligence not just Hollywood fantasy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11703662/Threat-from-Artificial-Intelligence-not-just-Hollywood-fantasy.html


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DARPA’s Brain Chip Program

By ickonic on 27th June 2015 Illuminati Criminals, Medical/Health, Mind Control, Political Manipulation


ACTIVIST POST....

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‘How would readers like to have a “black box” for your brain or, possibly, a “brain
chip”? Do you think that’s far-fetched? Well, think again, because Dr. Peter
Breggin, MD, discloses in the video posted below just what the U.S. Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has planned for humans.

Dr. Peter R. Breggin, MD, who has been a medical expert witness regarding SSRI
drugs for criminal, malpractice and product liability lawsuits, candidly discusses how
the U.S. government treated returning-World War II soldiers, who apparently were
suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with lobotomies! Here’s
documentation telling the story regarding 2,000 lobotomized soldiers.’

Dr. Peter Breggin, MD on DARPA Brain-Chip Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5RwYQadzw#t=10

Read more: DARPA’s Brain Chip Program

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/darpas-brain-chip-program.html

[Cidersomerset]

Quote Posted by Carmody (here)
The precursor for the AI hardware just publicly arrived on the scientific scene.
I was hoping that it would be delayed for as long as possible.
No, I won't tell you what it is. The fewer that know, the better, as that means it will take longer to come into being.
'tis my fate to be coupled to these things, I guess.
This means I'll have to move into making 'the good result', ie, the counter argument, the counter potential ---has to be brought into being.

That brought out the low level military/black helicopter flyover, in no time at all......


It does not surprise me they have 'eyes/ears' every where and in everything............

I'm no expert but whats been exposed on the Snowden thread is only the tip of the iceberg.



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GCHQ and NSA broke antivirus software so that they could spy on people, leaks indicate

By ickonic on 29th June 2015 Big Brother

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GCHQ and NSA broke antivirus software so that they could spy on people, leaks indicate

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Spy agencies intercepted emails about vulnerabilities so that they could use them, according to reports

Andrew Griffin Author Biography
Tuesday 23 June 2015


‘The British and American spy agencies deliberately broke anti-virus software so
that they could read the messages of their citizens, according to new leaks.

Both the NSA and GCHQ have long been said to have deliberately reversed
engineer software so that they could find weaknesses in software and exploit them
to read communications. But new documents show that the agencies did so to
some of the most popular antivirus software, potentially exposing hundreds of
millions of people to dangerous viruses, according to a report from The Intercept.

The agencies reverse engineered Kaspersky antivirus software so that they could
see how it worked and ensure that it didn’t keep them from looking through
computers, according to the report. They also looked through emails that had been
sent to the company flagging up viruses and vulnerabilities, the Intercept reported.’

Read more: GCHQ and NSA broke antivirus software so that they could spy on
people, leaks indicate

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/gchq-and-nsa-broke-antivirus-software-so-that-they-could-spy-on-people-leaks-indicate-10338488.html




http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59919-Edward-Snowden-the-whistleblower-behind-the-NSA-surveillance-revelations/page42

[Cidersomerset]

Just by coincidence I have found a new sky - fy series and yes
they have a female android..........................


Pilot - Dark Matter S01E01 - SyFy

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Dark Matter S01E02 | Season 1 Episode 2

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Even primitive robots can be dangerous , human error or not...........
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Automaker robot kills technician in Volkswagen plant in Germany

By ickonic on 2nd July 2015 New Physics

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‘A robot has killed a factory technician at a Volkswagen plant in Germany, the automaker says.

The 22-year-old external contractor died of injuries on Monday in a Volkswagen production
plant in Baunatal, AFP quoted VW spokesman Heiko Hillwig as saying on Wednesday

He “was part of a team that was setting up the stationary robot when it grabbed and crushed
him against a metal plate,” Hillwig added.’

The robot, though being old and outdated, had not suffered any technical defect and initial
conclusions suggested that human error was to blame, the VW spokesman further noted.

He added that it “was not one of the new generation of lightweight collaborative robots that
work side by side with workers on the production line and forgo safety cages.”

Fatalities related to robots are rare since safety cages are installed around them to prevent
accidental contact with humans. However, in this incident the victim was standing in the cage,
an act against safety measures. His colleague who was standing outside of the cage was not harmed.

According to Hillwig, prosecutors have launched a probe into how the incident happened.

RS/AS/MHB

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/02/418396/Germany-Baunatal-Volkswagen-Hillwig




Read more: Automaker robot kills technician in Volkswagen plant in Germany

[Cidersomerset]

The David Icke Facebook Photo Gallery – funny and profound

By ickonic on 2nd July 2015

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Facebook is building AI systems ‘that are better than humans,’ Zuckerberg reveals

By ickonic on 2nd July 2015 Corporate Crime, Illuminati Criminals, Mind Control

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‘Zuck says Facebook’s in the midst of building AI systems “that are better than humans
at our primary senses.” They’re designing one to be able to detect everything in an image
or video: people, objects, animals, backgrounds and locations, among others. If it can
understand what’s in an image or video, it could, for instance, tell a blind person what
it’s about. The other system they’re working on focuses on language, so that it’ll be able
to translate speech to text and text from one language to another, as well as answer
questions in conversational lingo. Of course, these AI systems’ most obvious application
is being able to surface more relevant News Feed entries for users and giving everyone a
new way to consume posts on the site.’

Read more: Facebook is building AI systems ‘that are better than humans,’ Zuckerberg reveals

[Cidersomerset]

AI robots denounce child-bearing as ‘immoral,’ claim the purpose of life is ‘to serve
the greater good’ and ‘live forever,’ and get angry when questioned on ethics

By ickonic on 16th July 2015 Microchipping, New Physics

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NATURAL NEWS ................


AI robots denounce child-bearing as ‘immoral,’ claim the purpose of life is ‘to serve
the greater good’ and ‘live forever,’ and get angry when questioned on ethics

Thursday, July 16, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: artificial intelligence, childbirth, immortality


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‘As the world’s robotic development becomes more mature, there have been
no shortage of experts who have predicted seismic cultural, economic and
social changes on the horizon for our planet.But one of the little-discussed
aspects of robotics is the development of AI – artificial intelligence – even
though it is one of the most rapidly advancing computer science disciplines.

Much of AI relies on development of a scientific process known as conversational
modeling,[PDF] which – up to this point – has been rudimentary. But all of that
is changing; devices – computers, robots, any device utilizing AI – are becoming
much more mature.’

Read more: AI robots denounce child-bearing as ‘immoral,’ claim the purpose of
life is ‘to serve the greater good’ and ‘live forever,’ and get angry when questioned on ethics

http://www.naturalnews.com/050414_artificial_intelligence_childbirth_immortality.html#

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New brain implants are so microscopic, you won’t even know that you’ve been implanted

By ickonic on 17th July 2015 Medical/Health, Microchipping, Mind Control


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New brain implants are so microscopic, you won't even know that you've been implanted

Friday, July 17, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: brain implants, mind control, transhumanism


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‘The cult of “science” has a fetish for trying to amalgamate humanity with machine. And
its latest endeavor in this pursuit has taken the form of an emerging brain implant
technology that would render humans part flesh, part computer.

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), have come up with a concept
they’ve dubbed “neural dust” that they say can be implanted into people’s brains for data
collection purposes. And the technology is reportedly so small that humans wouldn’t even
know it was inside their heads.

Using a special wire apparatus, the neural dust can be “dipped” into a person’s cerebral
cortex, report scientists, where it would remain embedded indefinitely. And since it’s
powered by special piezoelectric materials, this dust wouldn’t require a recharge, which
means once it’s there, it’s there for good.’

According to reports, this neural dust contains a complementary metal oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) that allows it to monitor and track a person's brain activity. After gathering this data,
the dust then transmits it to a special transmitter installed on a person's scalp.

Here's how The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) describes the technology:

"Thousands of biologically neutral microsensors, on the order of one-tenth of a millimeter
(approximately the thickness of a human hair), would convert electrical signals into
ultrasound that could be read outside the brain."


Read more: New brain implants are so microscopic, you won’t even know that you’ve been implanted

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050440_brain_implants_mind_control_transhumanism.html#ixzz3g7vABH2M

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Google’s Ray Kurzweil says humans will have 'hybrid' cloud-powered brains by 2030

Others say that the main peril in Kurzweil’s predictions is they are vague and elastic, or consistently
over-ambitious. In 1990 he said that by 2020 there would be a new world government, and in 1999 he
opined that by 2019 we would be dealing with personalized virtual shopkeepers, bankers and sales in
most of our business transactions.

Yet some of his more grounded predictions, such as the fact that most computers would communicate
wirelessly and that people would give voice commands to their handheld computer, have been proved
correct. In New York, Kurzweil defended his record, saying 94 percent of his 1999 predictions have
turned out to be true.



they can go to hell, i'm not putting **** inside my brain that is for sure, but he's right about the banks and shops, all the banks now have self service machines now and it's 2015.

i think the aim of this all is to get into our brains and or being, they want a grasp of that and we know what google is all about behind the scenes do you really trust a corporation like google inside your body? i know i don't.

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This is a scary an inevitable conclusion I think , probably
a bit further than 2 years but they are getting more stable.....


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ATLAS: Next Generation Of DARPA Humanoid Robot Released

By David on 25th February 2016

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The evolution of humanoid robots is happening at an ever-quickening pace. These
advancements are occurring not only in their mechanics but also with the
incorporation of artificial intelligence.

One of the humanoid robots that has garnered the most attention is ATLAS,
developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics. ATLAS has been through several
incarnations since its inception in 2013 as part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge
and, as you’ll see in the videos below, if a truly Terminator-like killer robot ever
does come to fruition, ATLAS very well could be the one.’

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/atlas-next-generation-of-darpa-humanoid-robot-released.html

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Published on 23 Feb 2016

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is
specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically
actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo
sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and
manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter
than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.

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Google's AI wins final Go challenge
15 March 2016

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Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence has secured its fourth win over a master player,
in the final of a five match challenge.Lee Se-dol, one of the world's top Go players, won
just one of the matches against the AlphaGo program, missing out on the $1m prize up
for grabs.Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, said the match had been the "most
exciting and stressful" for his team.

Lee Se-dol said he felt "regrettable" about the result of the contest.

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Mr Lee won one of the five matches

In Go, players take turn placing stones on a 19-by-19 grid, competing to take control
of the most territory.The game is considered to be much more challenging for computers
than chess.At a press conference held after the final match, Mr Lee said he did not
necessarily think AlphaGo was superior to humans.But he said he had more studying to
do, and admitted the matches had challenged some of his ideas about the game Go.

Read More...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35810133

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The Potential Problems With Artificial Intelligence

By David on 15 March 2016 GMT

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‘Artificial intelligence (AI) is, simply put, intelligence exhibited by software and machines.
Intelligence itself could be defined as the ability to learn and solve problems. In nature,
evolution has endowed many species with intelligence, and human beings in particular
with a relatively formidable ability to learn and solve problems.

Human intelligence has allowed our species to diverge from evolutionary and natural
environmental constraints, giving us mastery for better or worse over the planet and
all other life upon it. We have done this through technology which includes the simplest
forms of tool-making to the most complex machines we use to ply the seas, skies, and
even outer space.’

Read more: The Potential Problems With Artificial Intelligence






http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/the-potential-problems-with-artificial-intelligence.html

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Robo-geddon? Six microrobots move a car 18,000 times their weight

By David on 15 March 2016 GMT

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‘We don’t want to alarm you, but researchers appear to have come a step
closer to helping robots one day take over the world.Inspired by insects
and lizards, researchers at Stanford University, California have designed
a tiny robot capable of shifting weights many times its size, either working
solo in in groups.

The “microTug” robots use a special adhesive inspired by gecko toes to move
objects over 2,000 times their weight. If this level of power was ever used
against mankind, we might be in deep trouble.’


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Published on 13 Mar 2016

Not only are ants impressively strong, they are also amazing team players.
This research inspired by such teamwork examples how the ways that
microrobots move effects their ability to work in teams. With careful
consideration to robot gait, we demonstrate a team of 6 super strong
microTug microrobots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rWuU...)
weighing 100 grams pulling the author's unmodified 3900lb (1800kg)
car on polished concrete.

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The Long-Awaited Promise of a Programmable Quantum Computer

By David on 24 March 2016 GMT New Physics, The Awakening

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‘The quest to build a powerful quantum computer is one of the great challenges
of 21st century physics. And although the hurdles are significant, physicists are
chasing them down, one by one.

They’ve gradually learned how to control quantum particles with the precision
necessary to run quantum algorithms on a small scale with just a few qubits.’

Read more: The Long-Awaited Promise of a Programmable Quantum Computer

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DARPA Is Using Mind Control Techniques to Manipulate Social Media

By David on 24 March 2016 GMT Big Brother


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‘It is quite clear that Americans who are pro-Second Amendment, pro-Constitution,
and anti-corruption and treasonous government and anti-corporate criminal activity
makes one an enemy of the state. The most ironic element in all of this is that our
tax dollars are being used to manipulate us. One other aspect of this document that
is frightening is the detailed planning that went into subjugating the minds and
actions of the American people.’

Read more: DARPA Is Using Mind Control Techniques to Manipulate Social Media

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/23/darpa-is-using-mind-control-techniques-to-manipulate-social-media/

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Smart machines are about to run the world: Here's how to prepare

By David on 30 March 2016 GMT

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‘”The robots are here,” Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy told a packed room at IdeaFestival
2015 in Louisville, KY. “You may not see them every day, but we know how to make
them. We fund research to design them. We have robots who can assist us and robot
soldiers who can kill us.”

Yampolskiy, director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville
and author of Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach, studies the implications
of AI, the interface between machines and people, and the influence they have on our
workplace. AI has formally been around since in the 1950s and a lot of it—spell-check,
for example—is no longer called artificial intelligence. “In your head,” Yampolskiy said,
“those technologies aren’t AI. But they really are.”

AI, he said, is everywhere. “It’s in your phones, your cars. It’s Google. It’s every bit of technology we’re using.”‘

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/smart-machines-are-about-to-run-the-world-heres-how-to-prepare/

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Computer paints 'new Rembrandt' after old works analysis

By Chris Baraniuk
Technology reporter


4 hours ago
From the section Technology

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The painting was produced by a computer that had analysed existing Rembrandt works

A team of technologists working with Microsoft and others have produced a 3D-printed
painting in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt.

The portrait was created after existing works by the artist were analysed by a computer.

A new work was then designed to look as much like a Rembrandt as possible - while
remaining an original portrait.

It was then 3D-printed to give it the same texture as an oil painting.

"We really wanted to understand what makes a face look like a Rembrandt," Emmanuel
Flores, director of technology for the project, told the BBC.

After they had been digitally tagged by humans, data on Rembrandt's paintings was
gathered by computers which discovered patterns in how the Dutch master would, for
example, characteristically shape a subject's eyes in his portraits.

Then, machine-learning algorithms were developed which could output a new portrait
mirroring Rembrandt's style.

To limit the many possible results to a specific type of individual, the computer was
asked to produce a portrait of a Caucasian male between the ages of 30 and 40, with
facial hair, wearing black clothes with a white collar and a hat, facing to the right.

Algorithm artist

"We found that with certain variations in the algorithm, for example, the hair might be
distributed in different ways," explained Mr Flores.But humans didn't decide the final
look and feel of the final portrait - they simply chose algorithms based on their efficiency
and let the computer come up with the finished result.Finally, a 3D texture for the
painting was applied based on the height and depth of paint
applied to Rembrandt's works.

As this was 3D-printed, artists's brushstrokes themselves could be mimicked in the final product.

"Our goal was to make a machine that works like Rembrandt," said Mr Flores. "We will
understand better what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece."

However, he added, "I don't think we can substitute Rembrandt - Rembrandt is unique."

The two-year project, entitled "The Next Rembrandt", was a collaboration between Microsoft,
financial firm ING, Delft University of Technology and two Dutch art museums - Mauritshuis
and Rembrandthuis.

A public exhibition of the portrait is planned and details of the display will be released at a later date.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35977315

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Robots are becoming security guards. 'Once it gets arms ... it'll replace all of us'

By David on 3 September 2016 GMT Corporate Crime New Physics

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‘William Santana Li imagines a future where robots will keep Americans safe.

Communities, he dreams, will take security into their own hands by investing in
wheeled machines that patrol streets, sidewalks and schools — instantly alerting
residents via a mobile app of intruders or criminal behavior.

“What if we could crowd-source security?” said Li, co-founder and chief executive of
a robotics company, Knightscope, that hopes to eventually do just that.’

Read more: Robots are becoming security guards. ‘Once it gets arms … it’ll replace all of us’

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-robots-retail-20160823-snap-story.html

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This CIA-Backed D-Wave Quantum Computer Will Change Your View Of Reality Forever

By David on 3 September 2016 GMT What is Reality?


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This CIA-Backed D-Wave Quantum Computer Will Change Your View of Reality Forever

TOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceCIAMilitaryPiper McGowin.

September 2, 2016

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By Piper McGowin

‘Meanwhile as everyone was busy arguing over the bread and circus elections, the CIA
was busy funding a computer so powerful that it is described as “tapping into the
fundamental fabric of reality” and the man who owns the company says being near one
is like “standing at the altar of an alien God.”

What exactly do you suppose they are doing with it?

You have to take a few minutes and watch this. It will change the way you look at “reality” forever.’

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Beyond the Vacuum: Companion Robots Coming Home


Blue Frog Robotics’ Buddy is a companion robot for the family that “connects, protects, and interacts with each member of your family.” BUDDY is built on an open-source platform, allowing developers worldwide to help build applications.

Services that Buddy offers include home security (watching/monitoring the home), smart home (connecting lights, thermostats, etc.), mobile telepresence (sharing photos and videos), personal assistance (family calendar, information on weather), elder care (fall detection and medication reminders), and more.

https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/consumer/beyond-the-vacuum-companion-robots-coming-home/