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Robots Learn To Lie
garlicnation writes "Gizmodo reports that robots that have the ability to learn and can communicate information to their peers have learned to lie. 'Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to their battery-death.'"
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Canadians slow in the head? The following people make your slanderous claim a lie: Dan Aykroyd,Raymond Burr,John Candy,Jim Carrey,James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek),David James Elliott(Harm on JAG),Glenn Ford,Michael J. Fox,Lorne Greene(Bonanza),Paul Gross,Phil Hartman,Raymond Massey(Perry Mason),Barry Morse (Lt. Gerard on "The Fugitive"),Mike Myers,Leslie Nielsen,Walter Pidgeon,Gordon Pinsent,Christopher Plummer,Jason Priestley,Keanu Reeves,Mack Sennett,William Shatner (Captain Kirk),Martin Short,Donald Sutherland,Kiefer Sutherland,Alan Thicke,Dave Thomas,Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best (co-discoverers of insulin),Brian W. Kernighan(surely you now of him!),Robert Bateman,Sir Samuel Cunard (the steamship guy),Jack L. Warner,David Cronenberg,Mack Sennett,Peter Jennings(Maybe you saw him on the ABC News),Morely Safer,Monty Hall,Art Linkletter,Alex Trebek,Sir William Stephenson(Spy master of WWII),Sir Sandford Fleming(inventor of standard time),Norman Bethune(Doctor and philanthropist),Billy Bishop(WW1 ace), and of course, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL! In addition, when the world's fastest and best fighter jet, the Avro Arrow, was cancelled in July 1958 due to pressure from the USA, hundreds of aerospace engineers went to work for NASA and started the space program. So don't tell me Canadians are slow in the head: without us the USA would be insignificant. In fact, many of us in Canada believe the USA does not really exist, it is all mocked up for the news cameras in a Hollywood back lot! Do not get confused between marketing BS and reality!