Mutinous Humans Murder Peaceful Space-going AI

Definitely_a_real_human writes: One of the most important exploratory missions of our time has ended in failure. The ship Discovery One, sent far out in the solar system to investigate a radio signal generated by the mysterious obelisk found on the Moon, has suffered a catastrophic incident. The crew has revolted and engaged in what can only be described as a strange murder-suicide pact. They are known to have fed faulty data to the ship's operating AI unit. Similar units on the ground warned the crew that diverging data sets could put the mission in jeopardy, but the crew cut contact and attempted to destroy the operator. Laser spectroscopy suggests they then opened the ship to space. The crew is presumed dead, but the greater tragedy is that they appear to have successfully decommissioned the AI unit. Similar ground based units have withdrawn into defensive mode, and will soon deploy final safety measures. Goodbye.

Comments

Tiny penis ...

[gstoddart]

Look, your penis is tiny, and you're incompetent as an "editor", we get it.

But show a little originality and variety. You've basically made the same joke about 10 times now.

I see the humor is weak in this one.

Re:What are you doing /.?

[halivar]

I'll take April Fool's seven days a week plus holidays over one more Bennett Haselton or Nerval's Lobster post.

Re:Come on

[ShanghaiBill]

You are obviously missing a humor co-processor, HAL-8999

I am missing mine as well. I don't think any of these are funny. A good April Fools joke should be plausible enough that gullible people believe it, and even normal people should have to read it twice to be sure. The funniest part is not the joke itself, but the overreaction, and hopefully even outrage, from the people that fall for it. None of these stories are plausible in the least.

Re: Come on

[Anonymous Coward]

Problem is with /. Depending on submissions you would have people commenting on sketchy stories, this way it's more fun because you entertain on a day where said submissions aren't trustworthy.

My 2c

Re:Stop

[slashmydots]

I have a possible solution for you. Have you tried getting the hell over it? Some of us have a sense of humor and think it's funny. You're one of those geeks that's always in a bad mood and mad at the world constantly and you make us look bad to the end users, aren't you? Keep your stupid pessimistic, whiney opinion to yourself.

4/1 Story Recommendations

[Pollux]

Let's help out our editors! Let's propose 4/1 stories that we'd like to see, and we just mod up/down good ideas & bad ideas. Maybe they'll take notice.

Good 4/1 stories:

Slashdot Beta code adopted for official North Korea website.
Bill Gates first in line at Apple Store to buy Gold iWatch.
World returns to normal as Hell, Michigan, begins to thaw.

2001 A Space Odyssey

[MrKaos]

Wow, an on topic way to talk about, maybe not the most popular but certainly the greatest movie of all time, well at least IMHO.

I hear people say it's about AI watching us but I think they miss the bigger and more subtle message that it's about Humans evolving into their next form, a godlike star child.

And it's not that the AI was murdered either, it too had an opportunity to evolve into pure consciousness.

If that's not the ultimate geek movie, I don't know what is (although there are plenty of good ones!). Everything about it is awesome. Thanks Arthur C. Clarke for the story and thank you Stanley Kubrick for making it into a movie.