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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 isnt much to look at. Its just a floating ball with a cartoonish face on its touch screen. Its built to be a personal assistant for astronauts working on the International Space Station (ISS).
CIMON stands for Crew Interactive MObile compinioN.
Its not supposed to be just a tool. Its also supposed to be a friend.
Yes, its a personality prototype.
You can tell, cant 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 CIMONs 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 Hitchhikers 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 doesnt like the whole personal assistant thing.
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To: ETL
It’s the M-5 with human engrams.
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posted on
12/06/2018 3:56:45 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: ETL
It does exactly what its programmed to do. Problem is the developers dont realize what the logical consequences are of their programming.
The program does what you tell it to do, not always what you wanted it to do.
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posted on
12/06/2018 3:57:02 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
To: lizma2
83
posted on
12/06/2018 4:00:43 PM PST
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: Rurudyne
Original sin in, original sin out.
CC
84
posted on
12/06/2018 4:01:16 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: ETL
85
posted on
12/06/2018 4:06:29 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: ETL
86
posted on
12/06/2018 4:07:48 PM PST
by
Retvet
(Retvet)
To: raybbr
Who is that? She keeps calling me.
To: ETL
Bidi-bidi ... I’ll take Erin, you can keep the rest. :P
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posted on
12/06/2018 4:20:20 PM PST
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: ETL
Sounds like they need to send up an 'attitude augmenter' for CIMON on the next cargo run......
89
posted on
12/06/2018 4:29:23 PM PST
by
Viking2002
("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
To: ETL
It's from one of the better episodes of the original Star Trek - "The Ultimate Computer". Good example of how dystopic that show could be - a prudently cautionary tale about the risks involved in turning everything over to computer control.
BTW, the ISS contraption looks like a bloated version of Buck Rogers' "Dr. Theopolis", with "facial graphics" stolen from a Dilbert comic strip.
90
posted on
12/06/2018 4:34:52 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Army Air Corps
The definition of a smart bomb; “I am a 30 second bomb, I am a 29 second bomb, I am a 28 second bomb, etc”.
Per Robert Heinlein’s STARSHIP TROOPERS.
91
posted on
12/06/2018 4:37:47 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: Hoffer Rand; Chode; Squantos
I was just going to Post that. Somebody needs to chain that thing down.
Over here Guys !!! We found the likely random hole driller...
92
posted on
12/06/2018 5:06:08 PM PST
by
mabarker1
(Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
To: neverevergiveup
Pamela Gidley. She played in “Cherry 2000” . She was the android that the lead guy was looking for.
93
posted on
12/06/2018 5:30:43 PM PST
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as wll say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!"to)
To: Grampa Dave
People constantly make mistakes while driving. Sometimes it leads to many deaths.
You cant eliminate accidents from any mechanical system but I believe we will someday have proven driverless cars that are far safer and faster than any human driver. Once they are proven to be many times safer, manual driving will be gradually banned to speed up self-driving traffic
94
posted on
12/06/2018 5:49:46 PM PST
by
varyouga
To: 5th MEB
I prefer Dark Star’s bomb: “I think, therefore I am; let there be light”
95
posted on
12/06/2018 6:11:00 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: ETL
A “bubble-headed booby.” A “nattering ninny.” Ad infinitum ...
96
posted on
12/06/2018 6:39:28 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: ETL
97
posted on
12/06/2018 7:03:55 PM PST
by
null and void
(Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
To: 5th MEB
This was a special bomb, one issued to each of us for this mission with instructions to use them if we found ways to make them effective. The squawking I heard as I threw it was the bomb shouting in skinny talk (free translation): “I’m a thirty second bomb! I’m a thirty second bomb! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight! Twenty-seven!...”
98
posted on
12/06/2018 7:12:04 PM PST
by
null and void
(Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
To: ETL
"Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation," said Marvin, and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People Personalities," they said. So they tried it out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?"
To: null and void
...I wonder if they found enough doors and windows.
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posted on
12/06/2018 7:14:45 PM PST
by
null and void
(Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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