Thursday, 11 April 2013

Robots will take your job!!!!!


humans?...error,error(be afraid,be very afraid)




Robots are here and they are taking over your job,your wife's,your grand mother's infact 90% of the people you know are about to get very broke.(forgive the drama)
 "The workers aren't in a fight with management, they’re in a fight with technology,"  the words of the new age boss.. Eventually, "the cost of service is going to get trumped by the customers' demand for lower prices," and less-expensive machines will replace people. [Human-Robot Relations: Why We Should Worry]

Indeed, the fast-food industry, agriculture, manufacturing, media and countless other industries — is looking into the future, and a robot is staring back.
Momentum Machines, a San Francisco-based company, has created a burger-flipping device that can crank out custom-made burgers (substitute with chips na kuku soma) at industrial speeds, Gizmag reports.
The company estimates that making burgers costs $9 billion a year in wages in the United States alone. Momentum Machines' device, however, can make 360 burgers per hour with minimum human intervention.
" Technology will democratize access to high-quality food, making it available to the masses," the Momentum Machines website states. (It does not explain, however, if  the robots will become our overlords,a major concern to the crazy majority)

Robots never miss a deadline
And it's not just workers in fast food restaurants, factory assembly lines and farm fields who will see their jobs threatened by automation.
Computer programmers and machine developers are creating devices so sophisticated they seem capable of replacing human thought — a concern for those people with jobs that require actual thought.
Take journalism (we are fighting for our livelyhoods people and its against robots). Narrative Science, a company affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, ., has created a software program that can create well-written news stories in a matter of seconds by processing info like sports statistics and financial data, according to the New York Times.
And the company charges only $10 for a 500-word article, Slate reports. "Would Narrative Science have unmasked the goldenburg scandal? Probably not. But then, most news stories are easier to report and decipher," Evgeny Morozov writes in Slate.
It remains to be seen whether or not a computer would refer to something as a catchy cynical phrase.
The silver lining behind automation

 "There is no question that some jobs are simply not going to be economically viable to be done by humans anymore," Raul Ordonez, director of the University of Dayton's Motoman Robotics Laboratory, told the Dayton Daily News.
"The automation revolution is definitely happening. There is simply no way to stop it," Ordonez said. "I think it will bring with it some pain in the sense that it will require all of us to adapt to it."
If the thought of adapting to accommodate a robotic future concerns you, the following quote from Kevin Kelly in Wired won't ease your anxiety: "You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your coworkers will be unseen machines."
Kelly, however, sees a silver lining to our automated future: "When robots and automation do our most basic work … then we are free to ask, 'What are humans for?'" This freedom lets us pursue more artistic and philosophical pursuits, Kelly claims.
"We need to let robots take over," he said. . . .something a robot disguised as a human would say.

mind control

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''give me your money''-the future,ladies and gentlemen












This is an update of the progress in efforts towards mind control.
By linking the brains of a human and a rat, scientists have now helped a man wiggle a rodent's (nice way to say rats) tail using only the man's thoughts.Now,we can all agree that mother nature is pretty great but add some crazy scientists into the mix and what you get is pure unadulterated awesomeness.
These new findings are the first case of a brain-to-brain interface between species, and the first example of a noninvasive brain-to-brain interface, researchers added.
In February, scientists revealed they linked together the brains of two rats. This first known instance of a brain-to-brain interface apparently helped the rodents share data to accomplish certain tasks, even across intercontinental distances. However, this advance depended on microscopic electrodes implanted in the rats' heads.
 In the latest example of a mind-meld, researchers employed noninvasive techniques to link the brains of a human and a rat. The man had electrodes stuck onto his scalp that picked up brain-wave activity. The rat was placed in a machine that focused ultrasound pulses through its skull to its brain, and was anesthetized so that it would not wriggle its head during the experiment.
The volunteer had a video screen placed in front of him that displayed a flickering pattern of light. If he paid attention to the screen, his brain waves would synchronize with the strobe light. If he looked away, or even if he looked at it while thinking of something else, his brain waves would not synchronize with the light flickers.
When the man focused on the flickering pattern, that action signaled the ultrasound to stimulate the part of the sleeping rat's brain responsible for moving its body. In response, the rodent flicked its tail. The interface was accurate 94 percent of the time, with a time delay of only about 1.6 seconds from the moment the man initiated his intent to the rat tail's wiggling.Think of the possibilities,for you movie nerds controlling presidents and taking over the world,parents,ever imagined controlling your kid?well science says your wish is their command.For the creeps,well. don't share your possibilities.
Original article on LiveScience.com.