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Scientists Invent Scientist
An anonymous reader writes "From the Boston Globe: 'Researchers said yesterday that they have created the world's first robotic scientist, a system that can form theories, devise experiments, and then carry out the experiments almost entirely without human help.' Now, if it could file patents and lawsuits, it would be ready to enter today's world of technology."
will be to make something to do its work for it, just like the scientists did.
No doubt this was part funded by the Department of Homeland Security to alleviate the problem of US universities having to employ potential terrorists (i.e. all foreigners, in Ashcroft world() if they want competent post-doctoral staff.
What happens when it decides that it's human masters are no longer needed and should be experimented on?
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Actually, maybe they already exist. Which could explain SCO: obviously a software bug. That's what you get when you illegally relicense GPL code ;-)
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It's completely based on who puts the most money into it, and what your political motivations are.
It's indistinguishable from modern scientists.
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are a close approximation of an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, not only will you eventualy get Shakespere but some cool research papers as well
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When asked whether he was, in fact, the robot the scientists had invented he replied "la la la" and hung up the phone.
Yeah, how well is it doing at getting the part time job to pay off its graduate education like the real students are doing?
Or else there can't be any "peer review" of its publications.
(Yeah, I am a scientist myself ...)
I think what they did was try and create an artificial person, but when they found the social skills element too challening, they just slapped a lab coat on it and called a "scientist"...
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Is it certified 3 Laws Safe? If so, no worries.
Other members of the mad science community criticized the University of Wales for wasting time on nonvital research, noting that they were wasting time developing a robot scientist that could have been spent on developing a sexy female robot assistant. Others noted that, despite years of attempts by the mad science community, Tokyo has STILL not been destroyed.
The University of Wales group defended its research, noting that the work on the lessons learned in developing the robot scientist could likely be applied to developing a sexy female robot assistant. They also charged that bringing up the War On Tokyo was undue.
"In general, I am sick of this attitude. I am tired of seeing comments on USENET like 'horrifying lizard-men hybrid created, Tokyo still not destroyed'. Clearly destroying Tokyo should be the first priority of the mad science community, but this does not mean all other research should cease or that research that does not attain this goal should be abandoned. This is unduly unwarranted in this case, however, as the robot scientist may well be the critical breakthrough we have needed in our long running quest to destroy Tokyo." said Ross D. King, the system's co-inventor and a professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in a surprisingly candid press release today. The press release then went on to outline a possible scenario in which the robotic scientist could break free of its masters, escaping into exile with a vile hatred of all that lives to build an army of its own robots to challenge Mankind.
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In traditional /. fashion I didn't read the artical.
/. fashion, you can't spell either.
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...what would happen if he decided to become a Creationist? Wouldn't that be embarrassing! ;-)
Everyone knows that Android Scientist tech is totally useless, because it perminately takes up a population slot and can't be moved to another job. Now, if we could successfully research Autolabs, we could really leap ahead of the Klackons, and maybe even keep up with the Psilons!
"Remember, there never were pineapple-almond cookies here."
I know the article said this robot had no mobility, but just imagine if it bred with this robot and escaped!
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welcome our Turing-complete overlords.
Or not, since in the end they will all fall over trying to determine whether the halting problem has been accounted for in their theory-making systems.
Doing the Right Thing should not be preempted by making a buck.
The *true* test of a modern robot-scientist is getting money ...
Of course, some might say that even the proverbial room of monkeys with typewriters throwing feces could produce something incomprehensible enough to seem like genius to grant committees... Considering some of the things that have gotten money in the past, the level of writing competence for the robot to get money for it's experiments might be really low. ;-)