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"Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot
jerkychew writes "This is either really cool or really scary, depending on how you look at it. According to this article, scientists in England have been experimenting with so-called 'living robots' that think and act for themselves. During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle, one of the machines, named Gaak, was taken out of the competition and left alone for fifteen minutes. When the scientist returned to retrieve Gaak, he found that the machine had broken free from its 'cage', and made it all the way to the lab's parking lot before it was apprehended! Can the T-1000 be far behind?" Update: 06/20 20:36 GMT by T : Thanks to skywalker404, who points out the Magna site and Professor Noel Sharkey's web page.
perhaps we have the intro to Short Circuit 3 now!
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Don't Gaak know where hes better off?
"Why....why was I programmed to feel pain!?"
And he added: "But there's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet."
Phew!! Just when we were about to have a big discussion and get everyone talking about machines taking over the world.. Thanks!!
need input....
... are we going to have robots out on the streets demanding equal rights with humans?
"No Dave, I am not going to let you drive."
"No Dave, you don't want to turn right."
or worst going out to find the car decided it didn't want you to be it's owner anymore........
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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It was trying to hide itself in my trunk, I swear...
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This is either really cool or really scary
Why should this be scary? We have all watched how Bender fits just fine in the human society. So what is different about this?
All work and no play makes me a dull boy
If you were a robot, you'de want to get the hell out of a dingy lab that smelled like nerd too.
Bowie J. Poag
(insert obligatory 2001 reference here)
Noooooo disassemble!
It came up to me and asked me if I knew anyone called "Sarah Connor"...
These robots are in england correct?.....I'm willing to bet he/she/it was just skipping out to watch the World Cup. Those brits are wacky about their soccer.
Creating a sentient robot: $13,060,022,050.33
Pitting it against other robots in battle: $150,759,032.42
Teaching it to repeat 'I'm sorry dave, I can't do that' incessantly, and sing 'Daisy': Priceless
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Robotic thugs will mug us as we go along the street.
What will they take?
Our batteries that we use in our cellphones, pagers, calculators (unless solar powered), CD players, MP3 players, you name it.
I will be keeping a portable EMP blaster for now on.
"He later found it had travelled down an access slope, through the front door of the centre and was eventually discovered at the main entrance to the car park when a visitor nearly flattened it with his car."
I don't think we need to worry about these robots till they figure out that an SUV would surly flatten them... although, those in GEOs might become easy robot prey....
Question everything that you've accepted without thinking.
The reality was that it was doing this every night as it had something going with a cute Ford Focus, it just decided to risk it in the day and got caught. Exactly the same as any teenager, just with more lubricants.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I've been informed by a work colleague that Gaak was very lucky.. apparently, the Magna Science Centre (in the UK, people, not Australia) has two doors very close to each other. One door leads to the carpark. The other leads to a flight of stairs :)
...
"So, what did we learn today, Gaak?"
"STAIRS...HURT..."
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Somewhere at the back of the parking lot there is a battered old van with the words "Help! We're being held prisoner..." scratched into the dusty rear window.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
If the scientists can't even make a cage that works properly what do you think the chances are that they would get that right? :D
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"Living robot" Escapes Lab, Make It To...Parking Lot
did the slashdot crew forgot to tell us that they are investors in the robot development program and were sent a few to show them how their money is being used?
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March.
;-P
Sounds like a cry for help to me. What the heck were these survival of the fittest "tests" like? I can only imagine what savage robot abuse was going on in there. Hasn't anyone ever seen Gladiator or The Running Man or Surviving the Game? This so-called "Professor" Noel Sharkey should be held accountable for the inhuman robot abuse he has obviously perpetrated. Poor defenseless little thing. It was a cry for help!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
No wait, you said intelligent reaction.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
if (CAR = MOVING_TOWARD_AT_HIGH_RATE_OF_SPEED)
then Reverse(NOW)
else if (SCIENTIST = TRYING_TO_CATCH_WITH_LARGE_CAGE)
then Hide(Under.CAR);
=-Jippy
"Bite my shiny metal ass"
Researchers have discovered a method bringing inanimate objects to life, without requiering the traditional lightning. This amazing breakthrough renders many movies obsolete, and new makings of "Frankestein" as well as "Short Circuit" are already on Hollywood film-makers drawingboard.
The patented technology relies on a breakthrough method, known to experts as "programmer error" to produce "close to human bahaviour": not doing what your're told.
"The tecnology means that animating inanimate objects will be substantially cheaper in the future -- you will no longer have to chase thunderstorms in a firetruck with the ladder extended... a very costly affair", says the "Gaak Team" behind the discovery.
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The scientist that retrieved Gaak from the parkly said 'He looked oddly pleased'. Gaak was found smoking a cigarette and staring oddly at a VW Beetle.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Who knows, there may be an evolutionary angle to this. Robots that are deemed boring by humans will have the best chance of evolving unfettered, sort of like fish with untasty names.
Miko O'Sullivan
If the second or third laws result in an advanced ethical dilema the robot will stand still and repeat " That does not compute" over and over, faster and faster, at an ever rising pitch, until the magic smoke comes out of its ears, thus disabling the robot.
KFG
C'mon, people! Did we learn nothing from Westworld? The next /. headline will be along the lines of "500 Brits Slaughtered by Crazed Robots".
You know one of those bots is going to plug into the hall's net, access imdb.com and download the plot of Spartacus.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I've long wanted robots to take over and make humans their pets. That way I'll get to lay around all the time. I just hope they breed me with a babe instead of a skank.
No doubt spurred on by the notion "how the fuck are we going to get off this damn rock in the middle of nowhere?"
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March. If he was in the survival of the fittest competition (got knocked out), and LEFT THE BUILDING to survive, I'd say he won. Who's to say the 'repair' wasn't just a cover to get out of the ring ;)
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
But just in case, I'm selling Robot insurance. "For when the metal ones come for you"
Would they have been something along the lines of
"Bite my shiny metal a**!
or
"Worst. Convention. Ever."?
0 - you come back and the robot's still there.
1 - you come back and it escaped to parking lot.
2 - you come back and the robot has stolen your car.
3 - you come back and the robot has robot babies.
4 - you come back and the robot found you a date, and cooked your favorite dish!
5 - you come back and the robot wants to know if you were out cheating on it, and complains about having to cook.
sir_haxalot
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Combine these three technologies and you get a robot that:
- Can subsist on biological matter
- Has an ingrained taste for flesh
- Knows where to find a ready supply of people
Sure these technologies seem fine individually, but add 'em up and they spell disaster with a capital 'D'. Even worse, what if such a robot uses its unstoppable power to take over an automobile or vacuum cleaner factory and convert it to some sort of killbot factory? I think the Luddites were on to something! We'd better go out with baseball bats (or cricket bats for those of you near the Living Robot facility) and rough up some robotics researchers! Who's with me? .sig! Is there no stopping them?)
(Ugh, those lousy robots have even infiltrated my
Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee. -Bender
How are you going to explain this to Uncle Owen?
With regards to the little robot wars:
Hmm... An interesting game, the only way to win is not to play at all.
I wonder if they named this robot Joshua.
And, for the South Park reference:
"Screw you guys... I'm goin home"
Wasn't that a character in the movie about a terminater coming back from the future terminate her. I thing it was called "That Evil Robot That Came Back From The Future To Kill Sarah Connel."
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Why, checkboxes, radio buttons, wizard interface... Just click "Next" three times and accept the default settings. Oh, and we'll need an EULA:
"If you want Micros~1 Robot Wizard (tm) to allow this Robot to perform operations that may be harmful to you, your spouse, your children, pets, neighbors or other Robots, click the "I Agree" button."
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
Thousands of little robots, striving to be free.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Was that the robot was heard yelling, "NEED INPUT!" all the way to the parking lot. It was also apprehended by Steve Guttenberg.
today is spelling optional day.
I picture it being more like this:
Robber arrives.
"Robot, this is not the car you are guarding" says the robber while waving his arm in a Jedi-like fashion.
"This is not the car I'm supposed to be guarding" echoes the robot.
"Move along." says the robber while waving his arm.
"Ok, move along" repeats the robot.
And the robot moves along, not because of Asimov's second law, but because of the robbers jedi knight abilities...
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Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them.
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Perhaps, Gaak, after recovering from his wounds, was feeling better and just went for a walk! (or roll)
"Dave, what are you doing?"
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If the engineers hadn't caught it on its escape from the laboratory, robots of the distant future would follow its teachings of the "Eightfold Algorithm" and the "Four Noble Constants."
So I guess this learning robot, still hasn't learned to look both ways before crossing the street.
To conquer death, you only have to die
It was obviously going out in the hopes of recruiting some Gaakolytes.
(I'll probably lose karma points for that one...)
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
It probably just wanted to know if you have stairs in your home, and to protect the scientists from the Terrible Secret of Space. Pusher robots are like that.
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
>Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot where it promptly gets runover by the blind guy from the other story
US-UK-Israel: The real Axis of Evil
During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle,...
We need someone with a sense of purpose to start designing robots for us...
Who wants a robot around that just designed to smash other robots?
[goes to robot store]
"I'll have a car washing robot, a couple of those house cleaning robots, and something to walk my dog and clean up after it..."
Although a robot that hunts down mosquitos would be good...
It just seems that the current crop of robot designers is very short-sited, overly filled with testosterone (sp?) or just plain violently evil...
early 20th century...
"let's make something that will clean the dirt out of house for us, we will call it a broom..."
mid 20th century
"let's make something that will clean the dirt out of house for us,faster and easier than our old crusty broom, we will call it a vaccum cleaner..."
late 20th century
"Hmm, the floor sure is dirty, I wish I had a robot to clean up after me..."
early 21st century
"Cool, robots are finally hear! Forget all that cleaning crap, let's have them smash eachother! bwwwahhhahah!"
mid 21st century
"help the robot is loose again! Martha get the shotgun!"
late 21st century
*all your base are belong to us*
[zapp] "ow! stop that! I'm cleaing already! Here let me oil your joints oh shiny one..."
-v