Makes me want to watch "The Matrix" again, and ponder just how close we might be to it.
Christopher, the cost side of the equation would need to consider legal fees and settlements for victims. There have already been some very expensive cases that included damages for emotional trauma. Avoiding even just one lawsuit might be worth funding a lot of nanobot research, for the Hilton and Marriott dynasties to pick just two.
Nighty-night; sleep tight; don't let...
Posted By: LeeQuod on September 08, 2010 2:42 AM
If Enough EPA Officials...
Get bitten, perhaps they won't deny the effective treatment against these little blights.
Dan, I guess I should have used quotation marks around "AI."
Posted By: Kim Moreland on September 07, 2010 5:08 PM
I think you need a new font. It looks like you are saying "Al" is fooling Mother Nature. It took a moment for me to see you meant "AI". Who is Al?
Posted By: Dan Gill on September 07, 2010 3:02 PM
Lee, I'm impressed
Some great ideas for applications of insect robots. I'm just curious about the cost side of the equation.
Kim asked "Why aren't hotels treating their beds w/ bed-bug Raid?"
Seriously? The EPA won't let them. Somehow I'm pretty sure the founding fathers didn't expect the feds to bully the states like this
Oh well, Strickland is as big a sell-out as any governor.
Posted By: Christopher Scurlock on September 07, 2010 2:55 PM
Lee,
I think you're on the right track. The idea that I'd get in a bed, which I had to pay lots of money for, and share it with biting bugs, creeps me out.
Why aren't hotels treating their beds with bed-bug Raid?
Cheers,
Kim
Posted By: Kim Moreland on September 07, 2010 8:59 AM
I've become *such* an engineer; I saw the one with the cockroach robots and immediately thought it could be used to clean out an infestation by leading the roaches into a fatal trap. Then I wondered if bedbugs move in a group the same way, since they're becoming a huge problem for hotels. Or maybe someone could create a "come bite me" doll that would mimic a human feast, but with a toxic surprise.
Time was when I would have been really jazzed about seeing artificial intelligence able to fool natural (although limited) intelligence. But now I just don't want any insects in my room.
Sigh. What a sell-out.
:-)
Posted By: LeeQuod on September 06, 2010 2:03 PM
Try now.
Posted By: Kim Moreland on September 03, 2010 4:19 PM
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Makes me want to watch "The Matrix" again, and ponder just how close we might be to it.
Christopher, the cost side of the equation would need to consider legal fees and settlements for victims. There have already been some very expensive cases that included damages for emotional trauma. Avoiding even just one lawsuit might be worth funding a lot of nanobot research, for the Hilton and Marriott dynasties to pick just two.
Nighty-night; sleep tight; don't let...
Dan, I guess I should have used quotation marks around "AI."
Kim asked "Why aren't hotels treating their beds w/ bed-bug Raid?"
Seriously? The EPA won't let them. Somehow I'm pretty sure the founding fathers didn't expect the feds to bully the states like this
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/18/bedbug-summit-EPA-insecticide.html
Oh well, Strickland is as big a sell-out as any governor.
I think you're on the right track. The idea that I'd get in a bed, which I had to pay lots of money for, and share it with biting bugs, creeps me out.
Why aren't hotels treating their beds with bed-bug Raid?
Cheers,
Kim
Time was when I would have been really jazzed about seeing artificial intelligence able to fool natural (although limited) intelligence. But now I just don't want any insects in my room.
Sigh. What a sell-out.
:-)