Andrew traces another step in the machines' inevitable rise to world domination: A computer capable of telling which women are the attractive ones. In conjunction with their three-dimensional printers, the machines will be able to use this technology to create the sexy spies who ultimately lead to our downfall.
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Their Next Step
09 Apr 2008 01:12 pm
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The logical next step would be a computer capable of determining whether a man is an Alpha, Beta or Omega.
I, for one, welcome our new sexy robot masters!
According to unconfirmed reports, the US Navy is interested in aquiring this new technology for possible use on female-only submarines...
Never mind that. British robots have designed the woman most likely to want a one-night stand. We need to build robots that will beat up those British robots and invite her back to the States for a cup of coffee.
How is the future world of machine domination compatible with declining energy resources, rising energy prices, and global warming? Isn't the fantasy of robot takeover based on the same mistaken premises of infinite energy resources and low energy prices as those funny predictions from 1968?
Hey, where's your sense of humor?
Infinite energy resources are easier for robots to acquire than humans, blah. Any robot conqueror worth its salt can launch itself into space where, using solar power and resources found on barren planets or asteroids, it can build copies of itself to become an invincible robot army. Duh.
Need I remind you gentlemen how the robots got around their little energy-demand problem in the Matrix?
Re "to create the sexy spies who ultimately lead to our downfall."
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Matthew, there are FAR better images of Tricia Helfer out on the Internet than that.
Or so I'm told.
I have a co-worker who is almost a dead ringer for Ann Coulter - 6' tall, slim, blonde, same eyes, wears black all the time.
No matter how it's been programmed, the computer won't be able to tell why one of them is attractive and the other isn't.
Need I remind you gentlemen how the robots got around their little energy-demand problem in the Matrix?
The writers of "The Matrix" committed a massive violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics--one simply can't use live humans as an energy source because it requires more energy (in the form of food) to keep a person alive than he puts out in the form of heat.
So I can assure you that won't be a problem when the robots take over. If America's near-future energy policy is based on biofuels and hydrogen cells that cost more to produce than they yield, though, the basic issue may rear its head well before then.
Originally the AIs in The Matrix were solar powered, which is why it's so important to get to work on our super cloud cover machine.
I keep seeing the references to BSG, can we get a post one of these days? I thought the season premiere was extremely good.
Come on Matt, why fight the trend when you can join it? Put your brain in a robot body. You can have X-Ray vision and the strength of five gorillas.
Oh, boy, Matt throws me a bone! I love it when he does that!
You want sexy robot spies? Here we go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7asESFbzhA
Comment under the video:
"The first female robot to date is a pimped attention whore, posing, walking like a bitch.
Nice vision of the women! /sarcasm
lol"
The incredible Q2 robot Japan created and displayed in 2005:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOqfrM8aiOQ
Actroid DER 2 Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFFs4DHWys&feature=related
Comment below video:
"Just like a real girl...I mean, she doesn' stop speaking!"
Another extremely good video of the Q2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqDLUAy2Tc&feature=related
A video of the Q1 version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8-sJS0W1I&feature=related
Description:
A meeting in Japan between psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein and Repliee Q1, a beautiful and lifelike android. See "My Date With a Robot," Scientific American Mind, June/July 2006, available at http://drrobertepstein.com.
I still prefer this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC94w69n9-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZN5-kHETc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ogvxXKRp8Y&feature=related
James Gary,
The writers of "The Matrix" committed a massive violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics--one simply can't use live humans as an energy source because it requires more energy (in the form of food) to keep a person alive than he puts out in the form of heat.
Spoil sport. If I recall the humans were a kind-of- bionic battery. How do you know those kinds of batteries follow any laws? Maybe they are the exception that proves the law.
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Heads in the Sand
"A computer capable of telling which women are the attractive ones."
Isn't that what beer goggles are for?
Posted by Helter | April 9, 2008 1:23 PM