You don't know? Mostly, robots (autonomous systems) sprang from the defense industry (guided missiles). Then, automatic behavior became commercially exploitable, and you have vendors (e.g., Boston Dynamics) making big strides. The pure science folks like to dream about artificial intelligence, but some of their thinking is not first rate (I am in mind of Roger Penrose, who made an impossible conjecture as the basis of a thought experiment). I have always been in industry, working for honest wages, and sometimes saving the government some money.
I'm not aware that robots "always use the British accents and spelling." The robots that call me have very unpolished accents and seem to specialize in murmuring (but they are using human beings for their voicebox). It is an attempt to simulate an educated mind, when you really have a toaster made in Shropshire. Yes, pretentious.
It's been 30 years in future for the past 50 years, if that gives any hint. I stopped holding my breath when that was imparted to me 50 years ago, and I started understanding the basic problems. Sadly, all this focus on Fusion the Ideal Power Source has stood in the way of Fission the Real Power Source. There is so much uranium and thorium, we have millennia of power available to us, not counting the uranium dissolved in seawater. I would say it can buy us time to figure out something even better.
But don't beam the power for distribution. That is incredibly dangerous---or you need huge transmission systems to make them safe. Electricity is immeasurably safer and more compact.
Maybe you're right. I guess it's just the Hollywood robots with the pretensions. Although that Penrose dude is a Brit and I suspect all that fancy physics is just as fake an an AutoPen signature.
You're probably also right about robots coming more from industry than science, especially the control laws and the guidance systems. But why do killer spacebots always wanna talk about missiles and other things that go BOOM. What, do you work for Raytheon or something? How'd you survive the jab mandate? Did the honest hard working robots get a free pass? The humans didn't.
Not my luck to run into any smarmy robots. Penrose is mostly a mathematician. I was reading a book by him on artificial intelligence, and he got into a discussion about the Turing test and how we might or might not determine that an A.I. was intelligent---and postulated, "Let's suppose we have a paper tape program infinitely long..." At which point, I finished the sentence with, "And then the fucking universe would be filled entirely with paper," and put the book on the shelf. I haven't opened it since.
Missiles with inertial guidance are probably the first example of autonomous behavior. Once you let it go, there is no bringing it back, and it is terribly important that it go where it is supposed to go. I talk about these things because there is a long-standing database and continuing challenge. I worked for Boeing, home of the Minuteman, the SRAM, the ALCM, the Inertial Upper Stage, etc. We developed the world's first solid-propellant three-axis-stabilized kinetic energy projectile. I worked on target discrimination algorithms. I don't recall any mandate at work, but it was immaterial to me, since I was retired by then.
I don't understand the meaning of your concluding remarks about robots getting a free pass. They are not biological. Lots of people did not get a free pass. What am I supposed to take from that? I didn't agree with it.
I'm not so sure about your paper tape analysis. If the universe is truly infinite then it has plenty of space to hold an infinite amount of infinite things. So an infinitely long paper tape would would not necessarily fill it up. Not even close. Do the math. Your reasoning on the subject seems more emotional than logical so you're clearly not a killerspacerobot. Maybe you should switch to killerspacerobotmaker?
Anyhow, what do you think of Penrose tiles? I sorta like em. Does topology have a place in target discrimination algorithms? I find it strangely fascinating. https://www.goldennumber.net/penrose-tiling/
Infinite is infinite. There would be no space left over ("My infinite is bigger than your infinite."). But the point is that the conjecture is absurd; it ignores the logical implications of its implementation. Not an emotional matter at all. But disgusting that a man of Penrose's stature would go down that path.
You don't know? Mostly, robots (autonomous systems) sprang from the defense industry (guided missiles). Then, automatic behavior became commercially exploitable, and you have vendors (e.g., Boston Dynamics) making big strides. The pure science folks like to dream about artificial intelligence, but some of their thinking is not first rate (I am in mind of Roger Penrose, who made an impossible conjecture as the basis of a thought experiment). I have always been in industry, working for honest wages, and sometimes saving the government some money.
I'm not aware that robots "always use the British accents and spelling." The robots that call me have very unpolished accents and seem to specialize in murmuring (but they are using human beings for their voicebox). It is an attempt to simulate an educated mind, when you really have a toaster made in Shropshire. Yes, pretentious.
It's been 30 years in future for the past 50 years, if that gives any hint. I stopped holding my breath when that was imparted to me 50 years ago, and I started understanding the basic problems. Sadly, all this focus on Fusion the Ideal Power Source has stood in the way of Fission the Real Power Source. There is so much uranium and thorium, we have millennia of power available to us, not counting the uranium dissolved in seawater. I would say it can buy us time to figure out something even better.
But don't beam the power for distribution. That is incredibly dangerous---or you need huge transmission systems to make them safe. Electricity is immeasurably safer and more compact.
Maybe you're right. I guess it's just the Hollywood robots with the pretensions. Although that Penrose dude is a Brit and I suspect all that fancy physics is just as fake an an AutoPen signature.
You're probably also right about robots coming more from industry than science, especially the control laws and the guidance systems. But why do killer spacebots always wanna talk about missiles and other things that go BOOM. What, do you work for Raytheon or something? How'd you survive the jab mandate? Did the honest hard working robots get a free pass? The humans didn't.
Not my luck to run into any smarmy robots. Penrose is mostly a mathematician. I was reading a book by him on artificial intelligence, and he got into a discussion about the Turing test and how we might or might not determine that an A.I. was intelligent---and postulated, "Let's suppose we have a paper tape program infinitely long..." At which point, I finished the sentence with, "And then the fucking universe would be filled entirely with paper," and put the book on the shelf. I haven't opened it since.
Missiles with inertial guidance are probably the first example of autonomous behavior. Once you let it go, there is no bringing it back, and it is terribly important that it go where it is supposed to go. I talk about these things because there is a long-standing database and continuing challenge. I worked for Boeing, home of the Minuteman, the SRAM, the ALCM, the Inertial Upper Stage, etc. We developed the world's first solid-propellant three-axis-stabilized kinetic energy projectile. I worked on target discrimination algorithms. I don't recall any mandate at work, but it was immaterial to me, since I was retired by then.
I don't understand the meaning of your concluding remarks about robots getting a free pass. They are not biological. Lots of people did not get a free pass. What am I supposed to take from that? I didn't agree with it.
I'm not so sure about your paper tape analysis. If the universe is truly infinite then it has plenty of space to hold an infinite amount of infinite things. So an infinitely long paper tape would would not necessarily fill it up. Not even close. Do the math. Your reasoning on the subject seems more emotional than logical so you're clearly not a killerspacerobot. Maybe you should switch to killerspacerobotmaker?
Anyhow, what do you think of Penrose tiles? I sorta like em. Does topology have a place in target discrimination algorithms? I find it strangely fascinating. https://www.goldennumber.net/penrose-tiling/
Infinite is infinite. There would be no space left over ("My infinite is bigger than your infinite."). But the point is that the conjecture is absurd; it ignores the logical implications of its implementation. Not an emotional matter at all. But disgusting that a man of Penrose's stature would go down that path.