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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: ETL

It’s the M-5 with human engrams.


81 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.)
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To: ETL

It does exactly what it’s programmed to do. Problem is the developers don’t 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.


82 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.)
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To: lizma2

Lol!


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)
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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.)
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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.)
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To: ETL

Eject it!


86 posted on 12/06/2018 4:07:48 PM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: raybbr

Who is that? She keeps calling me.


87 posted on 12/06/2018 4:10:37 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: ETL

Bidi-bidi ... I’ll take Erin, you can keep the rest. :P


88 posted on 12/06/2018 4:20:20 PM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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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)
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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.)
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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!!)
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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!!!)
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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)
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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
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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)
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To: ETL

A “bubble-headed booby.” A “nattering ninny.” Ad infinitum ...


96 posted on 12/06/2018 6:39:28 PM PST by IronJack
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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.)
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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.)
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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?"
99 posted on 12/06/2018 7:14:37 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: null and void

...I wonder if they found enough doors and windows.


100 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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