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'Terminator'-Style Robot Rebellion!
Posted February 21, 2009 by Shakti Sombrero
Dumbest piece of journalism in a while:
Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
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"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."
The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.
Mix a little fear of what people don't understand (computer programming) and some sensationalistic journalism, add a pinch of scary robotic face, and you've got world-class scaremongering.
"Strict warrior code"? Dear god it's like we're all 14 again.
Posted in Media Panic, Scary Technology
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