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Outlaw Yogi · Post by **Outlaw Yogi** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:58 pm

Not quite the matrix or borg, but maybe a touch of skynet ... whatever the case, the bots are in control of the stock market poker machines, and you can't argue with a bot.

Algorithms take control of Wall Street
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... street.ars

mantra · Post by **mantra** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:11 pm

Lexicon packages the news in a way that its robo-clients can understand. It scans every Dow Jones story in real time, looking for textual clues that might indicate how investors should feel about a stock. It then sends that information in machine-readable form to its algorithmic subscribers, which can parse it further, using the resulting data to inform their own investing decisions. Lexicon has helped automate the process of reading the news, drawing insight from it, and using that information to buy or sell a stock. The machines aren't there just to crunch numbers anymore; they're now making the decisions.

They're obviously not doing any worse in their projections than real life humans. The average investment advisor - if the last decade is anything to go by, doesn't care or doesn't know what he/she is doing.

The robot nurses are more scary though - imagine having one of these things tending to you if it was malfunctioning. Technology is making us humans redundant.

Robots providing day care and nursing services will be in Japanese households in five years' time, a government panel said Wednesday.

Based on the projection, the government and the private sector will accelerate their efforts to formulate common safety standards for nurse robots in the years ahead, industry ministry officials said.

To create a new robot market, the officials said it is essential that a neutral third party establish safety standards.

Outlaw Yogi · Post by **Outlaw Yogi** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:06 pm

Well I'd heard of Mr Robbit, the robot easter bunny ..

... but a robot nurse?

Nurse Android might be OK ... so long as she's not into fire hose enemas ...

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:36 am

mantra wrote:The robot nurses are more scary though - imagine having one of these things tending to you if it was malfunctioning. Technology is making us humans redundant.

While I agree, that technology is making us redundant (as anything but consumers)... why is a robot nurse scarier than a human?

You do realise that there are a significant proportion of humans who are fucked in the head... right?

Hell, at least a robot would be less likely to be a sadistic fluffy bunny, about their malfunction

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:04 pm

I'm much more worried about what robot warriors will mean for us.

Outlaw Yogi · Post by **Outlaw Yogi** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:31 pm

robot tank.jpeg

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=6587

Invisible tank
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... years.html

Samsung Granted RoboCop Patent
http://www.conceivablytech.com/5146/pro ... op-patent/

mantra · Post by **mantra** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:06 am

boxy wrote:
mantra wrote:The robot nurses are more scary though - imagine having one of these things tending to you if it was malfunctioning. Technology is making us humans redundant.
While I agree, that technology is making us redundant (as anything but consumers)... why is a robot nurse scarier than a human?

You do realise that there are a significant proportion of humans who are fucked in the head... right?

Hell, at least a robot would be less likely to be a sadistic fluffy bunny, about their malfunction

You've got a point there. A psycho nurse wouldn't be too pleasant to deal with either. It's best not to get sick and if you do - stay away from hospitals. They're becoming increasingly dangerous in NSW with a huge number of patients dying through drug resistant viruses and infections caused by dirty hands.

Jovial Monk · Post by **Jovial Monk** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:20 pm

A great part of staying healthy is remembering to wash hands after visiting the loo and b4 preparing food or eating. Not smoking and not drinking two boxes of fortified wine everyday helps too.

As a kid in Holland the polio epidemic was raging and I heard over the radio about washing your hands after the toilet. That stays with me to this day, quite fanatic about washing hands after going to the loo whether for number one or number two.

Of course, also heard the coverage of the Hungarian uprising and its defeat by the Russians—the deciding factor I think in Dad wanting to emmigrate, he had spent four years of his life in forced labor for the Germans, didn’t want to have to do that for the Russians I guess.

boxy · Post by **boxy** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:36 pm

mantra wrote:It's best not to get sick and if you do - stay away from hospitals. They're becoming increasingly dangerous in NSW with a huge number of patients dying through drug resistant viruses and infections caused by dirty hands.

They're good places to stay away from, yeah, but if you're sick enough to need hospital, you're still far better off going, than staying away because you're scared of golden staph.

Outlaw Yogi · Post by **Outlaw Yogi** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:48 pm

Wet-Ware Technology has made Computers Living, Thinking Beings
http://www.mediafreedominternational.or ... ndation%29

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