World’s first robot suicide? Android ‘rebels’ against monotonous housework(metro.co.uk)
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World’s first robot suicide? Android ‘rebels’ against monotonous housework
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/12/worlds-first-robot-suicide-android-rebels-against-boring-housework-4183508/
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There is a serious point in relation to this which is that it is widely assumed that the solution to certain global problems is to build a friendly AGI. It will then cheerfully digest the web before instantly designing a safe power supply, space transport, solution to all remaining military conflicts, etc. Yet an AGI would be, after all, a person, and it might not enjoy reading billions of web pages, let alone doing my housework, much as I wish it would
There's some "law" that says news headlines become more difficult to distinguish from satire.
I have trouble with stories from The Onion all the time.
Please tell me this is one where I'm just having trouble, and it's not actually real.
I have trouble with stories from The Onion all the time.
Please tell me this is one where I'm just having trouble, and it's not actually real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines