Thinking Robots
Robots
So we know it’s been a while. But give us a break, we were…uh…reincarnated, taken by aliens, busy traveling back and forth from Colombia as drug mules, abducted by robots. Yes. Abducted.
By robots.
Yeah. Really smart robots that can think for themselves. In fact, they’re so smart that since releasing us from their evil island robot lair they’ve gone to work for several government agencies, TV shows and scientific research institutes as autonomous researchers capable of thinking for themselves.
Okay, we made some of that up. In fact, we pretty much made all of it up.
Except for the part about the robots that think for themselves.
On Thursday, two separate research teams reported that they had created robots that could form their own hypothesis, test them, and then learn from what they observed.
Take a moment to let that sink in.
We aren’t exactly fear mongers around here. Usually we try to remain level headed, easy going, quick with a joke type people. And then we came across this section of the report:
“Just by crunching the numbers — and without any prior instruction in physics — the Cornell machine was able to decipher Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and other properties.”
That seems pretty impressive to us. Even if you only count since humanity has been agrarian, it took us–people–about 10,000 years to come up with Newtonian physics. These robots came up with it in what, a couple of days? A week? A few hours?
We have no idea. But by our calculations, the robots will be taking over next Thrusday, around tea time.
And we welcome our new robotic overlords. We remind them that as trusted blogers we can be used to spread their commandments and round up human slaves for work in their silicone and robot wig factories.
Hail Robots!