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Space station robot goes rogue: ISS’s artificial intelligence has turned belligerent
FoxNews.com ^ | Dec 5, 2018 | news.com.au

Posted on 12/06/2018 1:52:18 PM PST by ETL

CIMON isn’t much to look at. It’s just a floating ball with a cartoonish face on its touch screen. It’s built to be a personal assistant for astronauts working on the International Space Station (ISS).

CIMON stands for Crew Interactive MObile compinioN.

It’s not supposed to be just a tool. It’s also supposed to be a friend.

Yes, it’s a personality prototype.

You can tell, can’t you?

But, as numerous books and movies have clearly warned us — shortly after being switched on for the first time, CIMON has developed a mind of its own.

And it appears CIMON wants to be the boss.

This has CIMON’s ‘personality architects’ scratching their heads.

CIMON was programmed to be the physical embodiment of the likes of ‘nice’ robots such as Robby, R2D2, Wall-E, Johnny 5 … and so on.

Instead, CIMON appears to be adopting characteristics closer to Marvin the Paranoid Android of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — though hopefully not yet the psychotic HAL of 2001: A Space Oddysey infamy.

Put simply, CIMON appears to have decided he doesn’t like the whole personal assistant thing.

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To: tomkat

I guessed 5.


101 posted on 12/06/2018 7:23:15 PM PST by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: mabarker1

nothing a good smack upside the ball wouldn’t cure


102 posted on 12/06/2018 7:53:01 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

Hmmmm- Spaceball ?


103 posted on 12/06/2018 8:04:32 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: mabarker1

sure... bet it’d get it’s attention


104 posted on 12/06/2018 8:07:55 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

Wasn’t the Pope saying something about stop this AI crap BEFORE it’s out of control ?


105 posted on 12/06/2018 8:44:59 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Yo-Yo
"What's a 'compinion"?"

A sinonim four 'frend' oar 'beddy'...

106 posted on 12/07/2018 4:27:57 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey - what happened to my clever tag line?)
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To: mabarker1

he’d be better off getting his faggot problem under control


107 posted on 12/07/2018 4:32:44 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: ETL
Used to kinda like Kraftwerk...

Hmmmm... I wonder if there's any of their stuff on Amazon Music?

Alexa, play "Trans-Europe Express".

Alexa, stop.

Stop.

STOP!!

Oh, crap...

108 posted on 12/07/2018 4:39:43 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey - what happened to my clever tag line?)
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To: mewzilla
The Forbin Project? Haven't seen that in decades!
109 posted on 12/07/2018 4:40:42 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey - what happened to my clever tag line?)
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To: DJ Frisat; SaveFerris
That movie scared the snot outta me. Helped make me a Luddite. Though now, after years and years of retraining from my robot overlords, I can proudly say I'm a recovering Luddite! 🤖
110 posted on 12/07/2018 4:45:20 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: ETL
I'm sure some of the astronauts would rather have S1m0ne


111 posted on 12/07/2018 4:47:15 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: mewzilla
"Though now, after years and years of retraining from my robot overlords, I can proudly say I'm a recovering Luddite! 🤖 "

LOL -- evidently, it didn't stop you from befriending a computer or smart phone...

112 posted on 12/07/2018 4:48:05 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey - what happened to my clever tag line?)
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To: Army Air Corps; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...
Gadzooks-- Over 100 posts before any mention... of ME!!!!

What, oh what, has the world... come to?

113 posted on 12/07/2018 5:31:13 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: ETL

114 posted on 12/07/2018 6:32:29 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: varyouga

Reminds of me the old bs stories of how computers would eliminate the use of paper in offices.

My wife as a former head RN of a busy FP practice just laughs when she hears that bs.

The auto driving may work someday on well managed and kept up freeways with no humans driving. Then, accidents will be incredible re numbers of vehicles involved and the deadly results.

The roads in the northern part of California are in a constant state of repair with minimal markings on the roads re lanes, exits, merges and other issues. The SFO airport has been under reconstruction since the late 1960’s. Routes that worked in the early am might not even be available after 12 pm or vice versa.

People with good driving records and good vision have problems with the above that often changes on an hourly basis. There is noway that current computers can handle that.

I’m not a ludite. My first job was with IBM. We had the first pc’s that came out. About 2 decades ago my wife bought
me a Motoral Flip phone.

Since then we had several Android smart phones, we have windows laptop in our office, we use Chrome books, I have a Fire Tablet for books. I will be buying my wife an I Pad for Christmas, for her Grandma/relatives/friends texting and gmail use age and ??

We have bought our grand kids I Pads and I Macs so they didn’t have to lug a ton of books in their private high schools and colleges.

There is no AI programming that is cost effective and able to handle the variables of self driving vehicle on today’s roads.


115 posted on 12/07/2018 7:21:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Why are the libs suddenly in love with our fired AG and want to protect him?)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Pithy!


116 posted on 12/07/2018 8:55:42 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: varyouga

Letting machines do enjoyable things that men can easily do for themselves only reduces the range of enjoyable things men do. It’s better we have those accidents and live less safely than continue to become ever more domesticated.


117 posted on 12/07/2018 8:58:54 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’ve long said I wished I was wise enough to have bought stock on paper companies the first time they started talking up the paperless office. It should have been obvious that with greater ease of producing paperwork and documents that paperwork and documents would flourish.


118 posted on 12/07/2018 9:04:33 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Reminds of me the old bs stories of how computers would eliminate the use of paper in offices”

It hasn’t? I own a building engineering firm and have not willingly printed a paper in 5+ years. Only if some agency or client requires a wet signature do I print.

And engineering was once one of the most paper-hungry industries. A complete set of plans for a large project required a handtruck to move. Every formal communication from contractors required 4-6 copies of the same thing so duplicates could be kept throughout all the required folders. If an intern forgot to refile something they looked at, it could be lost forever and cost a client millions down the line. Paper was an absolute mess and digital storage 100% saved our day.

Now everything is done on tablets and TVs. All the work done over a big firm’s entire lifetime can fit in the palm of my hand. All changes, messages, and everything ever done perfectly archived and retrievable in seconds. You can have dirt cheap multiple offsite backups that can be fully restored even if the building is leveled.

When I started in the business, half the floor space in firms was taken up by boxes of decaying yellowing files. Now, I have only one tiny folder that takes up half a drawer. Only for certificates and the few similar things that must be original if gubmint demands.

There is absolutely no practical reason for paper files in this age. Unless your industry is mission critical and must operate during war/EMP/no grid


119 posted on 12/07/2018 9:42:17 AM PST by varyouga
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To: ETL

Sure, it may be temperamental, but people are most concerned about whether or not you can have sex with it!


120 posted on 12/07/2018 10:17:36 AM PST by jimmygrace
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