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Old 2nd Sep 2008, 22:30
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A Glimpse Of The Future ? Nifty Video

Stanford's "autonomous" helicopters teach themselves to fly

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Old 2nd Sep 2008, 23:04
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Not yet fully autonomous, it doesn't make elective or inventive decisions within its display, it's performing learned sequences, albeit independantly. But...

...better get designing some software glitches and bugs
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Next thing you know they'll declare war on humans and call themselves Cylons!!!

Sorry about the obscure Battlestar Galactica reference!! I may need to get out more.
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so flying toasters?
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Originally Posted by SilsoeSid
Notice if you will, Prof. Ngs wink at the end
That's not a wink. It's a nervous tic...
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" The computer 'watches' the human fly the helicopter.."

Learn or remember? ... Bit of a difference!
Scary as it sounds, it may be learning. Artificial Neural Network
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Much like flying an airliner I suppose
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