It's SkyNET... or worse!!!

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

Dunno if this has been posted yet, but I've only now discovered this...

http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2006/09/71779

[Balschoiw 0]

Looks like Stanislav Lem scores again.

Quote[/b] ]A powerful military space ship, a "second-class cruiser" called Invincible, lands on the planet Regis III to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor. During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a new form of life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines. The evolution was controlled by "robot wars", and the only form that survived were swarms of minuscule, insect-like machines. Individually, or in small groups, they are quite harmless to humans and capable of only very simple behavior. However, when bothered, they can assemble into huge swarms displaying complex behavior arising from self-organization, and are able to defeat an intruder by a powerful surge of EMI. Some members of the spacecraft crew suffered a complete memory wipe-out as consequence. The angered crew attempts to fight the enemy, but eventually recognizes the meaninglessness of their efforts in the most direct sense of the word.

The invincible

Stephen Thaler just stole the idea from Lem who developed it in 1964

Very good book btw.

[walker 0]

Hi all

I remember Thaler's experiment on AI Neural Net death.

His Creativity Machine is a nice little earner for him; spews out patents like babies sh*t.

Kind Regards walker

[kavoven 4]

Quite an interesting read, thanks for sharing

[lecholas 2]

Looks like Stanislav Lem scores again.

Quote[/b] ]A powerful military space ship, a "second-class cruiser" called Invincible, lands on the planet Regis III to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor. During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a new form of life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines. The evolution was controlled by "robot wars", and the only form that survived were swarms of minuscule, insect-like machines. Individually, or in small groups, they are quite harmless to humans and capable of only very simple behavior. However, when bothered, they can assemble into huge swarms displaying complex behavior arising from self-organization, and are able to defeat an intruder by a powerful surge of EMI. Some members of the spacecraft crew suffered a complete memory wipe-out as consequence. The angered crew attempts to fight the enemy, but eventually recognizes the meaninglessness of their efforts in the most direct sense of the word.

The invincible

Stephen Thaler just stole the idea from Lem who developed it in 1964

Very good book btw.

True. Like the most of Lem's books .