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Posted on 06/06/2022 7:17:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A crewless autonomous boat attempting to take the route of the Mayflower's 1620 sea voyage has finally arrived at the shores of North America, but on the coast of Canada instead of Massachusetts, where the original boat landed.
The robotic boat reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday following a ride across the Atlantic Ocean from England that lasted more than five weeks, according to IBM, which built the artificial intelligence captain that makes all the ship’s decision.
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship did not have a captain, navigator or any other people aboard.
The ship's first attempt to cross the Atlantic to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in June 2021 was derailed by technical glitches, forcing it to return to its home port in England.
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Missing the target by a few hundred miles north makes it authentic, as isn’t that what the original Mayflower did?
Even the computers are declaring independence from tyranny.
I wonder what is going to do to native American intelligence.
AI makes the smartest decisions and I guess that was too come to America.
If it wanted the easiest path the America it should have walked across the southern border.
Do we have to give free services to it?
Do we have to give it citizenship if it drops anchor?
Anchor babies? Get it?
Sorry the jokes are flowing freely on this.
Wouldn’t that be considered an abandoned ship...and open to salvage rights?
Yeah they were headed for the Virginia colony.
Now a servo system linked to a flawed navigation system is called a captain.
It’s a trimaran - Columbus would have LOVED to sail something as stable as that across the ocean!
The original Mayflower planned to land in Virginia but was blown off course by the weather.
so there was no set course, just tide and wind...
Without a shower? Count me out.
If it was a British robot it would have hit an iceberg....
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