Linda Hamilton's gonna go ape

Looks like artificial intelligence has progressed far beyond what many people thought possible. Incredibly, a batch of European scientists are beginning to design robots that emulate people and can learn behavior.

From the BBC:

The project involves building a series of robots that can take sensory input from the humans they are interacting with and then adapt their behaviour accordingly...

The robots will learn from the feedback they receive from humans.

The robots will get the feedback from simple vision cameras, audio, contact sensors, and sensors that can work out the distance between the machine and the humans.

"One of the things we are going to use to detect expressions in faces and patterns in motion is a (artificial) neural network."

Artificial neural networks are being used because they are very useful for adapting to changing inputs - in this case detecting patterns in behaviour, voice, movement etc.

Within a decade, the machines will take over and war will begin. Just wait. You'll see. Then you'll be sorry.