The Perennial Robot Question

[alex_greene]

Why no lift off? Josie and the Pussycats made it into outer space.

 

[-Daniel-]

Why no lift off? Josie and the Pussycats made it into outer space.

:lol:

Showing our age again are we? :mrgreen:

 

[alex_greene]

Why no lift off? Josie and the Pussycats made it into outer space.

:lol:

Showing our age again are we? :mrgreen:

Showing off my DVD collection. The manufactured pop band is a trope older than The Monkees, but other than Dr Severin's gang in the Star Trek episode "The Way To Eden" I don't know of any other band that had adventures out in the stars.

 

[Reynard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Touring_Band

 

[alex_greene]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Touring_Band

I wouldn't have known about this in 1977, because I was too busy having taste *cough* reading the first issues of 2000AD and discovering Traveller.

 

[Condottiere]

The Beatles may have just been day trippin'.

 

[AndrewW]

Showing off my DVD collection. The manufactured pop band is a trope older than The Monkees, but other than Dr Severin's gang in the Star Trek episode "The Way To Eden" I don't know of any other band that had adventures out in the stars.

Well there's Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and sequels.

 

[-Daniel-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Touring_Band

Never heard about them. Went to YouTube and listed to a few of their songs. So not what I was expecting. They didn't sound like 1977 sci-fi or even '77s rock. More late 60s stuff. But serious, thanks for showing it to us, nice to learn something new. :mrgreen:

 

[Reynard]

And Robot Salesman even fits this topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7onqVcvIYY

Magical men for you to buy waiting to take you home
You'll be amazed at their intricate circuitry tuned to perfection with VIBRACON GLOBES
Who will buy my magical men for sale programmed to please ease of control
We'll be your friends we'll work and work so you can play
Take us away, take us away.....

Interesting jingle as you walk around a starport.

 

[-Daniel-]

Well there's Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and sequels.

When the Zenon stuff came out, my little girl loved them so I have seen them all more than once. :|

I will admit I did laugh at the name of the pop-star rocker boy's name.... Proto Zoa. :lol:

 

[Nobby-W]

You can wind up with something about as smart as a Cherry 2000 (can sort of fake a human personality) or something that can do tasks in a single domain well.

Enough so you go on a dangerous journey just to get another one of the same model when yours fails? But in the end the Cherry 2000 gets dumped for a human.

Sounds like an adventure seed to me...

 

[alex_greene]

You can wind up with something about as smart as a Cherry 2000 (can sort of fake a human personality) or something that can do tasks in a single domain well.

Enough so you go on a dangerous journey just to get another one of the same model when yours fails? But in the end the Cherry 2000 gets dumped for a human.

Sounds like an adventure seed to me...

Rescue robots.

 

[Condottiere]

Doberbots.

 

[-Daniel-]

Doberbots.

 

[Reynard]

Ohelnobot!

 

[Condottiere]

Othellobot.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Why no lift off? Josie and the Pussycats made it into outer space.

:lol:

Showing our age again are we? :mrgreen:

Showing off my DVD collection. The manufactured pop band is a trope older than The Monkees, but other than Dr Severin's gang in the Star Trek episode "The Way To Eden" I don't know of any other band that had adventures out in the stars.

Same Series - Earlier Episode:

The Caridian Arts Players - Bringing the classics into space.

Also, there was a series of books (semi comedy) about a theatre troupe in space. The first one was "We Open on New Venus". I will have to dig out the details... On New Venus they get involved in a rebellion sparked by The Scottish Play.

 

[Condottiere]

The first international beauty contest judged by “machines” was supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry and wrinkles to identify the most attractive contestants. After Beauty.AI launched this year, roughly 6,000 people from more than 100 countries submitted photos in the hopes that artificial intelligence, supported by complex algorithms, would determine that their faces most closely resembled “human beauty”.

But when the results came in, the creators were dismayed to see that there was a glaring factor linking the winners: the robots did not like people with dark skin.

 

[alex_greene]

The first international beauty contest judged by “machines”

What was the source of this article?

 

[Condottiere]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/artificial-intelligence-beauty-contest-doesnt-like-black-people