DailyDirt: Cyborgs Animals To Do Our Bidding
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Artificial intelligence is getting better these days, but before we had artificial neural net software and other fancy algorithms that could mimic animal brains, people tried using real animal brains to perform various tasks. Military projects have attempted to create various animal cyborgs -- mostly unsuccessfully. Perhaps someday there will be a truly impressive animal cyborg, but then again, we might regret such a creation.- The CIA had a program called Operation Acoustic Kitty in the 1960s to create a cyborg cat. The geniuses who came up with this idea apparently never owned a cat before. Seriously, how do you train a cat to do anything? [url]
- The Navy has a robotic drone (okay, not a cyborg) that could be mistaken for a shark. Combat dolphins and other sea animals have been trained for military operations, so it isn't so surprising to see robot versions. However, these robots are probably pretty useless right now, but they'll improve. (And let's add some lasers to this robotic shark, Mr. Bigglesworth, okay? [/Dr. Evil voice]) [url]
- During WWII, there was an ingenious idea to arm bats with tiny incendiary bombs to attack Japanese cities. The US spent $2 million on development, using thousands of bats, before cancelling the project. [url]
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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, bats, biomimicry, combat dolphins, cyborgs, military operations, robot shark, robots, wwii
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Is it possible that the people who told upper management were just trolling upper management and then had to try to implement the trolling?
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Have you ever owned a cat? Yes, they're not as easy to train as a dog, because the average cat is more intelligent and more strong-willed than the average dog, but it's not all that difficult either, with a bit of patience...
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But would I rely on a cat to do something critical like help spy on a foreign ambassador? Uh. No. Would you?
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Doomed from the start
As any good cyborg has a laser pointer of some sort somewhere on it, making cyborg cats would have been foolhardy, as they would have done nothing but run around in circles, ever chasing the elusive dot.
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Very forward thinking, then, weren't they? Just how many cyborg cats are out there already, each one with a microchip within it, bearing the details of where they live.
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Bats
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No, they were actually doing that but things got bad when the dogs couldnt identify the tanks properly and they had a strong preference towards their own tanks.
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I guess you've never seen the videos of cats using toilets and even flushing them when they are done.
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smart cats
one night i saw it jump up put a paw over top and use the other on side and turned and pulled the door open .....i was like WOW
now imagine that cat as a spy
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