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Pesh-Info:     "Artificial Intelligence" by Kubrick               1 May 2001
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I am famous again!

Yesterday we had W.B. studios in the lab for they made a movie
"A.I."  started by S. Kubrick, finished off by Spilberg ...

The little starlet came over, who played in the "sixth sense", 
of course all international press was here and panel discussion 
with some futuristic charlatan Ray Kurzweil, author
of "The age of spiritual machines", and the director of AI Lab Rod Brooks.
They both say in 20 years computers will be implanted in humans and wireless
Internet connections of our brain will be essential for a well being.

AI lab made demonstrations of ongoiing projects: 
KISMET - a social robot which raises eye-brows when you yell at it,
COG - robot hysterically shaking human-like;
and most importantly a walking dinosaur-robot Troody: 
independent mobile robot which wakes up, stands up and walks around ...

We got lots of food: smoked mussels, guliens, salmon, capuccino cake,
teramisu, wine, beer, coffeee, shrums ... sorry - got a bit carried away. 
On the 15th minute of demos I broke a dinosaur for good. That was simple! 
I asked if it could walk over a small object, they said "Of course!", 
I immidiately put my plastic plate with oysters on the table, 
robot steps on it and slides - CRASH!!!!!!!!  
No more walking robot.

Allow me to report: "nothing to worry about!
                     miserable state of affairs in the field!
                     forget cyborgs in 20 years!

-Pesha