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'Self-Aware' Robot Spells Doom For Us All

So we've just inched that much closer to the terrifying but inevitable SKYNET-style of robotic domination that we've been warning you about, as Japanese researchers have recently developed a bot that is able to distinguish "itself" from "others" with a high degree of accuracy. We'll leave the heavy philosophical questions of what constiutes consciousness/self-awareness for discussion in comments, but the facts are these: Junichi Takeno and his team at Meiji University built a robot whom we'll call "Egobot" with an artificial nerve cell in it's computer that screens input from its sensors to determine if it is interacting with a doppelganger or a mirror image of itself.

posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2005 12:05:00 PM