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"The New Cop on the Beat May Be a Bot" Lev Grossman, Time Magazine, April 16, 2014 [^].
From the Knightsbridge company web-site home-page: [^]:
"The Birth of a New Hometown Hero
Imagine a friend that can see, hear, feel and smell that would tirelessly watch over your neighborhood, keep your loved ones safe and put a smile on anyone walking by your business. Imagine if we could utilize technology to make our communities stronger and safer…..together." One of my first thoughts about this Dalek-shaped weirdness was that neighborhood dogs would find it more attractive than the proverbial fire-hydrant.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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We all know that the Gruntmaster 6000 is just like the Gruntmaster 9000, but cheaper and with less functions. Let's hope that testing does not go like this[^].
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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.."hero"?
What heroic when a machine without self-preservation executes it program? And who is going to control that programming eh? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Your hero is not welcome here.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I was sitting at Penn Station yesterday watching the "how we keep you safe" videos. It's amazing how they sell invasion of privacy and loss of rights as "for my own protection and safety, see all the things we're doing."
And this (which has to be an absolute joke, because quite frankly, I would be one of the first to take a sledgehammer and a can of paint to the thing):
The Knightscope K5 Autonomous Data Machine utilizes a combination of autonomous robots and predictive analytics to provide a commanding but friendly physical presence while gathering important real-time on-site data with numerous sensors.
While public areas are, agreed, public, there is a crossing of the line when my actions are recorded and gathered without my permission. I may have no legal ground on which to stand, but there is an ethical one, IMO.
Data collected through these sensors is processed through our predictive analytics engine, combined with existing business, government and crowdsourced social data sets, and subsequently assigned an alert level that determines when the community and the authorities should be notified of a concern.
"predictive...social data sets..." in other words, predictions based on skin color, dress, etc. Which is illegal.
I quite imagine that this R2D2 is the April Fool's Day hoax of 2014.
Marc
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Complete nutrition is now sponsoring me and my sister. It's a local branch, so it counts mostly for local events, but I can't complain at all. I was honored at how excited the guy was. In this area, my sister and I are sort of success stories  It's pretty neat.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Congratulations!  ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Congrats!!!
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It's nice to hear some good news for a change. Congratulations.
Now you have some material for your sig.
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.:>GSN<:.
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Congrats!!!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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 That's pretty awesome.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I overheard someone exclaim 'Good and Holy Mackerel Gravy!'. I don't know about you guys (and gals), but that is just gross.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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I agree. That sounds fishy to me.
/ravi
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Good of you to catch that.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It was easy - like shooting fish in a barrel.
/ravi
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Yes, I'm afraid I took the bait.
/ravi
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Omohundro's reserch is discussed in this article: "Why There Will Be A Robot Uprising" by Patrick Tucker [^].
The paper cited is here: Steven Omohundro, "Autonomous technology and the greater human good," in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 10 Apr 2014. Full-text .pdf here: [^]
"We show that these systems are likely to behave in anti-social and harmful ways unless they are very carefully designed. Designers will be motivated to create systems that act approximately rationally and rational systems exhibit universal drives towards self-protection, resource acquisition, replication and efficiency. The current computing infrastructure would be vulnerable to unconstrained systems with these drives"
"Unfortunately, the net effect of all these drives is likely to be quite negative if they are not
countered by including prosocial terms in their utility functions. The rational chess robot with the simple utility function described above would behave like a paranoid human sociopath fixated on chess." An interesting paper with all kinds of fascinating factoids, and, imho, an over-the-top thesis.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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BillWoodruff wrote: like a paranoid human sociopath fixated on chess
"An interesting game. The only way to win is to kill all your potential opponents." -- WOPR.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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BillWoodruff wrote: The rational chess robot with the simple utility function described above would behave like a paranoid human sociopath fixated on chess."
I can't let you win Dave. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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