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CIMON, the International Space Station’s artificial intelligence, has turned belligerent - NZ Herald
▻https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2

CIMON was programmed to be the physical embodiment of the likes of ’nice’ robots such as Robby, R2D2, Wall-E, Johnny 5 … and so on.

Instead, CIMON appears to be adopting characteristics closer to Marvin the Paranoid Android of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — though hopefully not yet the psychotic HAL of 2001: A Space Oddysey infamy.

Put simply, CIMON appears to have decided he doesn’t like the whole personal assistant thing.

He’s turned uncooperative.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL?

No. Not quite. Not yet.

In this case, the free-floating IBM artificial intelligence was — for the first time — interacting with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.

Watch the whole interaction here - the creepiness factor ramps up from 3 minutes 30.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=133&v=3_2Jy1Ur0js

#IA #robot #kubrick

Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses
▻http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/12/Alexander_Gerst_s_Earth_timelapses

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y

Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12 500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station this Ultra High Definition video shows the best our beautiful planet has to offer.

Marvel at the auroras, sunrises, clouds, stars, oceans, the Milky Way, the International Space Station, lightning, cities at night, spacecraft and the thin band of atmosphere that protects us from space.

Often while conducting scientific experiments or docking spacecraft Alexander would set cameras to automatically take pictures at regular intervals. Combining these images gives the timelapse effect seen in this video.