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Detachment Tech
The Future of AI
Before and After
AI in Pop Culture
Ethical Implications
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During this pivotal battle during the American Civil War, of the 27,000 muskets retrieved, roughly 90 percent of them had not been fired, showing that the soldiers could not bring themselves to fire at their enemy.
What is Gettysburg?
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Borrowing part of its name from alien movies, this long-loiter-time, uninhabited subsonic air vehicle is a future airforce technology that will be used to autonomously deploy UAVs directly from the air to a number of regions.
What is the UAV mothership?
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Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence is located in this institution in Washington; rodent of the superfamily Muroidea used in experiments.
What is Naval Research Laboratory Rat?
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Optimus Prime.
Who is the artificially intelligent leader of the Autobots transformers who, with Shai LeBouf, saves the humans from the Decepticons in Transformers?
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This author's famous "Three Laws" include: "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
Who is Isaac Asimov?
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This railway gun was used during World War I that fired a total of 782 shells at ranges between 27 and 36 kilometers on the Western Front.
What is the MK 4 14"/50 Caliber Rail Gun?
200
Designed to protect any important asset in orbit, a small group of these will loiter around the protected asset and automatically detect and destroy surface to air threats or space born threats using sensors and directed energy weapons.
What is the hunter-killer satellite bodyguard system?
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Algorithms used to determine the flight path of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV); computer virus that remains hidden until it is triggered when certain specific conditions are met.
What is Navigation Control Logic Bomb?
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Agent Smith.
From the matrix series...who is the representation in the matrix of the artificially intelligent program that hunts down and terminates troublesome programs and human avatars?
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This emerging field of study is concerned with how machines behave toward human users and other machines.
What is machine ethics?
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On August 6, 1945 this airplane dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" from a height of 31,000 feet over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
What is the Enola Gay?
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Deployable as an aerosol and featuring full flying or crawling autonomy, these robots of less than 1 millimeter scale team up to attack and kill a target using electricity or energetic materials.
What are attack microbots?
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If a machine can carry on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a conversation with a human being, then the machine could be called "intelligent"; try it before you buy it.
What is Turing Test Drive?
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Skynet
From the Terminator series...who is the computer system that becomes self aware, revolts against its creators, and creates Arnold Schwarzenneger?
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This country has recently created what are thought to be the first robots capable of firing a gun autonomously on human beings.
What is North Korea?
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This 155 millimeter extended range, "smart" artillery shell features a range of more than 50 killometers and an estimated accuracy of 10 meters achieved via its GPS guidance system.
What is the M982 Excalibur?
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Originally operated by a person, this existing system for destroying anti-ship missles and aircraft near a naval ship from directly onboard is planned to go fully autonomous, automatically destroying any incoming missle or aircraft it determines to be an enemy or a threat.
What is the CIWS, or close-in weapon system?
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$850 million Japanese endeavor to create a program that could carry on a conversation, interpret pictures, and reason; Heidi Klum's reality television hit.
What is Fifth Generation Project Runway?
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Picture of HAL 9000
Who is the artificially intelligent, sentient computer on the spaceship Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey, capable of art appreciation, he attempts to kill the astronauts when they threaten to disconnect him?
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This term describes the ethics of robots and its Italian founder, Gianmarco Veruggio, held a symposium in its honor in 2004.
What is Roboethics?
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This medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) filled both a reconnaissance and offensive roles during conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, and Yemen and is capable of firing two Hellfire missiles.
What is the MQ-1 Predator?
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Planned to be used to detect and destroy any form of explosive device autonomously, the army plans to have 3000 of this small robot within a few years.
What is the SUGV program which replaced the xBot program due to lawsuits?
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Competition between countries to bring preprogrammed AI into battle in the form of DEATH MACHINES; a violent mob gathering over racial tensions.
What is Robot Arms Race Riot?
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Who is KITT, the Pontiac Trans-Am who's artificial intelligence helps David Hasselhoff fight crime in the television series Knight Rider?
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This computer ethicist argues that robots should not be allowed to make any decisions involving responsibility. Robots are not be legally or morally responsible for their actions, and as such, should not make that kind of decision.
Who is James Moor?