Thursday, August 23, 2012

Mutants In The News — "You're So Vain" Edition



The BBC reports that Yale scientists are attempting to teach a robot named Nico to recognize itself in the mirror, one of the classic psychological tests in gauging / determining self-awareness.

In 2007, scientists got a robot to recognize motion in a mirror, but "this [test] is based on appearance rather than motion," says doctoral candidate Justin Hart.

If successful, robots would join the short list of non-human species—dolphins, elephants, and primates—able to recognize themselves.

Man.  The sin-borgs and kill-bots of the future are going to be even MORE terrifying if they start worrying about their sheens and paint-jobs and such.

"DOES.  THIS.  CHASSIS.  MAKE.  ME.  LOOK.  FAT.  HUMAN?  
YOU.  NOW.  HAVE.  FIVE.  SECONDS.  TO.  REPLY."



*Shudder*

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