it’s all downhill from here, folks.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/20/1023864460978.html
actually, i think this is rather cool. i will not pretend to be all jaded and cynical, so ignore my opening quote. the future is here!
jb
I bet it was trying to get off earth.
Run, Kilroy, run!
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Don’t worry…the right people got it.
Johnny 5 lives!
Where is Lije Baley when you need him?
That story is hilarious and somewhat frightening at the same time.
I can just picture a little robot: “This is bullshit. I’m outta here”
I can also hear the (almost) last line of that somewhat famous SF story (name and author escape me): “There is now”
At least it didn’t do what a Japanese assembly line robot did a few years ago - commit, uh, roboticide? Something went horribly wrong in its programming and it began to inject itself in the “chest” with the industrial acid it had in its arm-mounted dispenser.
This is the smartest robot since the one Professor Frink programmed to feel pain.
Secret, secret–I’ve gotta secret!
Reminds me of one of Stanislaw Lem’s short stories (Dr. Diagoras?) from Memoirs of a Space Traveler. The Professor, who’s been developing artificial intelligent life forms, comments “the first thing they always try to do is escape.”
Very good, very unnerving story.
We will fight for
robot freedom.
And hold our metal arms high.
We will motor free
with the buffalos
or dieeeeeeeeeeeee.
run bot run.
run bot run.
bots with guns.