The stuff collecting dust in Boeing's closet must make spys around the world have wet dreams.

>>2596
And the stuff Lockheed Skunk Works comes up with if implemented would make the world shit themselves if they rolled it out all at once. They already have the next three generations of stealth tech locked away..they just don't have a reason to roll it into production.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3n5cUaG5fg Looks like a good test that could lead to a proto of a flying fortress

>>2610
I want them to make dirigibles people can live in so bad.

>>2617
they've been trying to revive the flying airship for decades...nothing successful yet.

in other fields of robotics
Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon

>"I think that in 10 years if you ask a question on a social network and you get an answer you will not know if a computer or a person has answered you," Milner told the financial daily.

>"When you receive a question, you will not know if it has been asked by a person or an artificial intelligence. And by answering you help the computer create an algorithm."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsBXrOq9ZhJp-su5BUr4u3JkgyGw?docId=CNG.931a94a2c7ebe97a39cda7089b78517d.41

Say hello to Digital Anonymous the Renegade AI.

>>2645
There's a twitter bot called AI_AGW that looks for global warming denier myths on twitter and responds with talking points and links to pages explaining why the myths are wrong.

Many people argue for several tweets with it, thinking they're talking with a real person.

>>2648
Does the AI know how to ignore strawman arguments and dispute bad data?

>>2649
does it have to? Frame the relevant data right and people will read what they want to read. They've already started fighting the damn thing.

>>2650
It doesn't have to convince them, no. But I wager at least a third of the people that would actually argue about global warming on the internet, as in, Youtube Comments type arguing about it on the internet, are already firmly set in their ways and ideas on how things work.

They'd run into the same problem trying to get a certain portion of the population to believe Obama isn't a Kenyan Muslim Socialist.

>>2649
I don't know how the bot works nor have I gone in depth of watching it in action, so I can't answer that.

But I'd guess the bot looks for commonly repeated arguments and false reasoning (think "it's snowing, what happened to global warming!"); the best person to target is the one who's on the fence and has bad or no information and is still capable of being reasoned with. Someone who's deliberately putting out strawmen or bad data isn't exactly the target audience.

That's all my own off-the-cuff speculation though. Like I said, I don't know how the bot works.

>>2682
Sounds reasonable enough.