To: Lokibob
Give them the task of disarming a mine field, and turn them loose.
Robot A: Ok, we have to clear this mine field.
Robot B: I've got an idea. I'll clamp onto your rear and push you in front of me.
Robot A: What?! Why should I be in front? You be in front!
Robot B: No dude, you're Blue. Blue is supposed to go in front.
Robot A: Bull....
[continues for two hours]
Robot B: Ok, how about we just tell the humans the mine field has been cleared and be done with it?
Robot A: Done!
7 posted on
02/22/2007 11:52:35 PM PST by
billybudd
To: billybudd
8 posted on
02/23/2007 12:09:25 AM PST by
MacDorcha
(In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
To: billybudd
10 posted on
02/23/2007 2:02:56 AM PST by
Lokibob
(Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
To: billybudd
THere was a star trek eposide about a bot becoming aware enough that it didn't want to do it's job because it would be destroyed in the process.
Of course, being the newer star trek, there was a big moral debate about whether they could fix the bot so it would do it's job, or respect it's "rights".
To: billybudd
Reminds me of a scene in "Ice Pirates"
13 posted on
02/23/2007 9:39:49 AM PST by
anymouse
To: billybudd
16 posted on
02/24/2007 10:10:09 AM PST by
yhwhsman
("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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