Your plastic pal who's fun to be with

sharks are cool!
whale sharks are even cooler!
robots are cool.
robot sharks are way cool!

Robot Whale Sharks, FTW!

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Also, much easier to be retrofitted with lasers.

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But is the food any better?
I bet the armed forces will be all over this idea.

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As long as it is the same quality, or even slightly worse, lots of organisations are going to be all over that, I bet

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Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with

And here i thought this was a thread about sex toys…

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If that, it could have taken a swing into Frank Zappa’s song “Artificial Rhonda”.

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Seems your plastic pal can be talked into hallucinating and dropping a :bomb: off at your desk. Researchers at University of Pennsylvania were the target of this, fortunately only simulated, attack.

IEEE Spectrum
It’s Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception
Charles Q. Choi
11 Nov 2024

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“Surprisingly”? :unamused: I dunno, man, I’ve come to expect this kind of thing more often than not.

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Apparently, you need to use something called “a frickin’ laser” for that application.

@Grey_Devil

Meanwhile, the biological units are more stand-offish.

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Something to… reflect on:

Stuxnet unleashed: The tactics behind the world’s first cyberweapon | Sandboxx

(excerpt) A theocracy fanatically opposed to the U.S., Iran was threatening to create a nuclear weapon and use it against U.S. interests and allies in the area. Then in 2010, seemingly all of a sudden, the Iranian nuclear program started falling apart and Iranian scientists leading the country’s covert nuclear program witnessed in dismay more than 1,000 centrifuges spinning to their destruction without any apparent reason. But there was plenty of reason, and it had a name: Stuxnet. Stuxnet, as analysts came to name the malware, was developed by an unknown party – though it was most likely the U.S. and Israel.

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Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy

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Way ahead of you

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Somehow I missed that. At least it’s two different versions! I’ll have to go look at the live one.

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