Robo-scientist's First Findings

[NashVegas]

Source: BBC

Scientists have created an ideal colleague - a robot that performs hundreds of repetitive experiments.

The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently "discovered new scientific knowledge".

It has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and is able to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses.

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Adam can carry out up to 1,000 experiments each day, and was designed to investigate the function of genes in yeast cells - it has worked out the role of 12 of these genes.

Biologists use the yeast cells to investigate biological systems because they are simple and easy to study.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7979113.stm

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Well, at least they're finally making themselves as easy for cabal to control (ethical problems with the experiment? NP, we'll have a robot do it) and/or jettison as they have the rest of us. Not too bright, really.

[enki23]

1. Very cool. Unfortunately, I'm afraid your own comment isn't satire, is it.

After following your link, an anti-GMO conspiracy site, I have a sinking feeling it isn't. So... hey. The robot is really damned cool. Bio-Luddite conspiracy mongering? Not so much.

[NashVegas]

6. Diversion Much?

In just about every case where automated systems have been introduced to the workplace, human skills and judgment decline and/or become redundant. If you don't like people speaking out against that, that's your problem.

[Odin2005]

10. New technology has always made jobs based on old technology obsolete.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

[NashVegas]

13. So ... You Think We're Getting Smarter?

You don't seem to realize or care for the very real likely chain of events. The first thing that happens is that entry level positions that persons can get experience in, especially decision-making experience, start to dwindle.

[anigbrowl]

11. Let me guess, you write your posts in longhand and have them delivered by Pony Express to DU

I like machines. Sue me. I don't think they've damaged my skills or judgment, but rather enhanced them.

[Infinite Hope]

2. It was programmed to respond in certain ways to certain things. That's not "independent"

Much ado about nothing. It's merely a machine doing as it was instructed.

[Posteritatis]

14. Shhh, you'll interrupt the massive ignorant kneejerk outrage over this (nt)

[Betsy Ross]

3. But what will all the graduate student do? n/t

[NashVegas]

5. Exactly

[GuyJello]

4. Amazing

Technology is advancing at a speed never previously seen. A robot who thinks.

[Nihil]

7. Classic!

> A robot who thinks.

vs.



:rofl:

[NashVegas]

8. Goodness

[Nihil]

9. (No offence or misdirection from your OP intended)

It just made me chuckle ... and wonder whether the troll would
have been able to pass the Turing test ...
:evilgrin:

[NashVegas]

12. NP. There's a Dupe With a Sexier Headline

"Eureka machine"