http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/robot-kills-man-volkswagen-plant-germany-32163980 Looks like Stephen Hawking could be right...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ing-warns-rise-robots-disastrous-mankind.html
Sounds like the man simply stood in the wrong place on the assembly line, Strolls. The machinery didn't chase him all around the factory shouting "Terminate!"
Well **** you lot. Interminable posts over various nonsensical conspiracy theories and the ridiculous suggestion that we are going to run out of food in 35 years, but no-one takes an interest in the real threat to mankind - robot nation.
Calm down, calm down Stroll's. If you build it, they will come. I've tried starting loads of threads in the past. Sometimes folk take me up on it, but more often than not they just fade away. This one may yet well grow. Anyway this made me chuckle, some young girl on Twitter, ironically posted a link to the story. Her name ... Sarah O'Connor! please log in to view this image
What Happens When ‘Sarah O’Connor’ Tweets About a Robot Killing a Man? By Chris Smith on Jul 2, 2015 at 11:59 AM please log in to view this image A tragic accident took place at a Volkswagen plant in Germany, where a robot killed a man while he was working. That’s something you rarely hear on the news, and something you might not pay particular attention to considering that reports on fatal accidents are a common thing in the media. But what happens when “Sarah O’Conner” tweets about a robot killing a Man? The Financial Times reporter shared the story on Twitter, at which point her tweet became viral. The reason is quite obvious for Terminator fans – everyone else will soon see the connection. Sarah Connor is the name of Jack Connor’s mother, who sends Terminators back in time to save mankind. Essentially, the Connors are trying to prevent a man vs. machine war that might lead to the extinction of the human race. “A robot has killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany,” Sarah O’Connor tweeted. The message was then retweeted over 6,300 times and favorited more than 3,400 times in the first day since the post went up. “Ok, I should have thought about my name and its associations before tweeting this,” she later added. “Sigh. I’ve never even watched the films. Now my feed is full of people tweeting me about Skynet,” she continued. “Feeling really uncomfortable about this inadvertent Twitter thing I seem to have kicked off. Somebody died. Let’s not forget,” she rightfully concluded. please log in to view this image Back to the actual story, a VW contractor was installing the new robot together with a colleague when the machine struck him in the chest and pressed him against a metal plate. The injuries proved to be fatal. Prosecutors are investigating what caused the accident, but what’s clear so far is that the 21-year-old contractor went into the safety cage of the robot during setup. The second person, who was outside the cage, was not harmed. The Times further adds that VW said a technical defect was not responsible for the accident.
Forgive me GC. My surname is Flanagan, but I know of no Irish relations. My pathetically superficial (I bought a tourist key-ring) attempt to understand my heritage told me that the surname Flanagan was "the anglicised version of the Gaelic O'Flannagan, meaning 'descendant of Flannagan'." Not much help.
Sorry Strolls, I was just pulling your chain...! There is, of course, a serious issue here as mankind becomes increasingly automated. Who'd have thought 40 years ago that unmanned drones armed with deadly weapons could buzz around Iraq and Syria controlled by some geek eating a sandwich at his pc in a military base in Heuston. Missiles are built to think for themselves by locking on targets, and not to be open to persuasion to change course. When consumers go to John Lewis to buy the latest version of robo-maid, I'll start to worry. Not sure this will be in my lifetime, but who knows...
No problem Goldie, my 'outrage' at the OP being ignored wasn't meant to be taken seriously - nor was the OP itself, I just found the story morbidly amusing.
If the people writing about it think that someone called Jack Connor was anything to do with the film then you can't blame tweeterererers for playing on Sarah O'Connor.
You been watching "Humans" on C4.....that's exactly what they are on their, synthetic lifeforms that help mankind, leading to mass unemployment, loss of prospects for the younger generation as a "Synth" can be programmed to be brain surgeon or a bin man at the flick of a switch - as you say, probably not in our lifetime, but it will come eventually
No, haven't seen the program but heard it was worthwhile. I'll get it on catch-up (another technical marvel!)
Brilliant, infinite leisure for all of us. We can become great artists and writers. Or spend everyday drunk and stoned. Can't wait. Apart from JG Ballard the only science fiction I read is Iain M Banks. His Culture novels have a very beguiling picture of a future civilization in which the people (of many different species) are essentially pets for benign super intelligent socialistic machines. They (machines and people) get their kicks by interfering with other less advanced civilizations. Great fun. The dream has always been technology liberating us all from the need to work. I suspect if it really happened the result would be a huge surge in suicides - the 'struggle' to survive through finding food, shelter and nowadays cash distracts us from the absurdity of everything, which a lot of people find disturbing.
Perhaps I am underplaying things a little, but isn't this accident (for that is what it is) similar to being run over by a bus? Wrong place, wrong time. It's not as if the robot went out of its way to kill the guy, is it?
. Inevitable really. Reminds me of the opening sequence of 'The Bionic Man'. " Gentlemen, we can rebuild him". I already have some bits which showed up on the body scanner at Belfast Airport much to the amusement of the guy operating the machinery. Now I can add bits of metal in my left ankle after I managed to break it on both sides a couple of weeks ago slipping on a patch of wet grass.
