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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
Mr. Doctor:
I'd say anger is a gift.
Wildroses:
Oh please, please assume that the problem was Faye or the coffee shop and not some random jerks on the street Corpse Witch. Give Bubbles another reason to go hmmmm.
If Corpse Witch does assume it was Faye and talks to her first, the results could be interesting.
BenRG:
It does not surprise me in the slightest that Punch-bot likes being tossed around as much as he likes punching things. That's an AI with issues. Of course, I'm starting to think that this is the case for all of Corpse Witch's employees!
Akima:
Punchbot seems to have cleaned off Faye's dick-drawings. I also bet he'd enjoy sparring with Bubbles MMA-style, but I'm visualising her doing tai-chi forms instead.
But Linkin Park? I can't see it. Evanescence maybe?
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 05 Apr 2016, 21:40 ---
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 05 Apr 2016, 19:29 ---Main advantages humans have over rovers: intelligence and judgment. You can "program" a human with a lot more tasks at once than a rover, because if a human runs into an unforeseen development, they have training and judgment to decide how to proceed, rather than having to call home, wait while the scientists on Earth figure out what to do based on limited data, and receive new instructions.
Example: one of the Venus landers was supposed to extend a probe to test the compressability of the Venusian surface. Due to bad luck, it ended up measuring the compressability of the lens cap of its camera. For a human, this is a five-second fix - kick the lens cap out of the way or move the probe five centimeters thataway. For the lander, this was unsolvable.
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At the recent inaugural Silicon Valley Comic Con Adam Savage held a panel with Andy Weir and a representative from NASA. That NASA rep said that it would be more cost effective to design probes that can do what humans could than to actually send humans to Mars.
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Really? Was this NASA rep an engineer or an administrator, because I'd like to meet the engineer who thinks they can legitimately build a self-motivating intuitive sapient AI for less than the budget allocation for crew training and life support on the "journey to Mars" roadmap. I'll accept the construction of a hardened humanoid robotic shell as given, due to the progress Boston Dynamics and friends have made lately.
Because that's the difference. The problem has never been the tools or the sensors, it has been applying judgement to their placement for best effect, which is extremely difficult to do by remote from a planet light-minutes distant.
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