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Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness

Posted by samzenpus on from the why-did-you-program-me-to-feel-pain dept.

shinyplasticbag writes "A new robot can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot that looks just like it. ... The ground-breaking technology could eventually lead to robots able to express emotions."

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  1. Yeah, so here goes . . . by Amiasian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just had to comment on this. It might be important.

  2. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Robot recognizes first post is YOU!

  3. Cue jokes mentioning: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Skynet... ...self-aware overlords... ...Beowulf clusters...

  4. Yeah, yeah.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    his name is Data, and he wants the emotion chip that his briother Lore has.... yadda yadda yadda.

    Now let's get to the good stuff and ask him how good of a fsck LT. Tasha Yar was!

  5. Hmm.. by Inaffect · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Insert Terminator Joke Here

  6. Does this mean... by DuranDuran · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does this mean that one day our robotic overlords will welcome us?

    --
    "You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
  7. Linux powered self aware robot overlords? by xanadu113 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but do they run Linux?

    I, for one, welcome our self-aware robot overlords.

    (Sorry, had to, no one else had yet.. =) )

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    -Myke
  8. Re:don't worry about skynet...just yet by kflat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am protected.

  9. Welcome by yuriyg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our self-aware, mirror-obsessed, emotional overlords.

  10. Re:don't worry about skynet...just yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am protected.

    Last time I had an SA account I thought that it was really starting to go downhill fast, so when I got banned I never reregistered. But has SA finally gotten so bad that even utter shite like Slashdot is an alternative? Why would a goon choose to read slashdot when they have access to SH/SC?