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Monday 21 September 2015
The Appliance of Machines!
Here in Britain recently there has been a great deal of
talk and discussion about machines getting better than man. Machines one day beccoming self-aware,
suggesting that robots could do the work of men and women. Mind you with that
thinking the machines in The Village were pretty self-aware. After all in ‘It’s
Your Funeral’ when Number 8 twice programmed their machines for percental
appraisal of their own efficiencies, each time they refused to give the
information. This was done simply by not returning the data to Number 8. Number
2 suggested that the machines would want their own Trade Union next! But in any
case, the machines appear to take a leaf out of Number 6’s book, refusing to
give any information away!
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Hello David,
ReplyDeleteI guess they repeatedly got a result they couldn't process. In computing there is a fitting term for "a numeric data type value representing an undefined or unrepresentable value" - It's NaN, Not a Number. I think this is what they ran into.... Ironically the machines just repeated what Number 6 tells them every time.
Best regards,
Jana
BCNU
Hello Jana,
DeleteA NAN "Not A Number," I like that. Thank you, an interesting comment.
Very kind regards
David
BCNU