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Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves
cylonlover writes "Engineers from the University of Southampton have developed what they say is the world's first control system for programming satellites to think for themselves. It's a cognitive software agent called sysbrain, and it allows satellites to read English-language technical documents, which in turn instruct the satellites on how to do things such as autonomously identifying and avoiding obstacles."
As soon as they find slashdot and our anti-Skynet stance, we're all doomed!!!
Yeah, I'm not in favour of putting AIs out of easy reach of their off-switches...
Next step will be hooking them up to the powergrid/nuclear weapons silos/rocket launches, and then equipping them with orbital lasers. Hell, lets just shave our heads and paint bullseyes on them now, to save the mechanical sky-gods the trouble
Dammit, who gave the satellite a browser? This is blatant Skynet astroturfing!