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Robots aim guns at wrong targets
Skynet will have to wait a little longer.
After experimenting with putting live guns on robots, the U.S. Army has hit a little snag: The robots began aiming their guns where they weren’t supposed to.
Now the pessimists among us are probably already hoarding food and guns, searching their phone books for anybody named John Connor, certain the machines that make modern life possible are preparing to overthrow us and take over the world. The reality is probably that some overworked and underpaid programmer made a few mistakes when he coded the basic programming.
Regardless of the reason, the result is the armed robots, called SWORDS units, have been pulled out of Iraq. One expert stated that “once you’ve done something that’s really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again.”
Given that pointing a gun where it shouldn’t be pointed is almost as bad as you can get, it’s likely that the idea of the robot soldier has been pushed back to far in the future.
Well, for those disappointed by the lack of robot revolution, there’s always “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”
Comments
Jerrod
04/16/08 @ 1:20am
You may want to check your facts on this one.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/15/armed-robots-not-pulled-from-iraq-after-all/
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/armed-robots-st.html
I guess it’s too much to ask for you to actually find out the real story before printing a story. I expect to see a correction ASAP.
Will
04/16/08 @ 10:40am
Don’t count on it, this is a blog, not real news. I don’t think the SN really cares about them.