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I actually did this once. I entered a science museum and
was greeted at the door by a guy in a robot costume
welcoming the visitors. Being and asshole I said "Are you
a
real robot?" "Yes". "OK, what's 9,658,234 divided by
734.963.158?" He said "Hey, I'm just a kid volunteering for
extra credit."
Then I said (again, because I'm an asshole)
"Should have just made a number up. I wouldn't have
know
if it was right or wrong.
But today it's a different game. Robots are questioning
US about our human authenticity, We need to point out
which pictures
have
a street sign in them or say what these curvy letters spell
to pass their tests.
But what about the reverse, those pesky fouxbots that
are serious about
getting investors or otherwise impressing people with
their non-existent
existence?
Take the asshole move I pulled on that poor kid and take
it
a step further. Memorize the answer.
Ask "OK, what's 9,658,234 divided by 734.963.158" If he
says 13.1411131, it's a real robot or somebody very quick
with a calculator.
Next step to smoking out a person in a robot costume
might be actual smoke.
Fauxbots in the news.
https://inews.co.uk...-in-suit-russia-24/
From Russia. What a shock. [doctorremulac3, Dec 13 2018]
Hoisted by one's own petard
https://www.thefree...isted+by+own+petard
[Voice, Dec 14 2018]
Prove you're not a human Capcha
https://drive.googl...9pOUKOu-TTpuHSXzjIP
[not_morrison_rm, Dec 17 2018]
[link]
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// "what's 9,658,234 divided by 734.963.158?" // |
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Most actual robots would be confused by that. Those
numbers aren't both valid in any one country. |
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We suggest that the result you memorize is derived from something highly specific, like 31.415927, or 9.112001. |
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It's a good trick. But watch out if the response from the alleged robot is "Molest me not with this pocket-calculator stuff" ... |
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Go one better & ask them an indivisible math problem like
divide 1 by 3 then watch them freeze as the calculate the
decimals to infinity. |
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... and the really smart robot replies, "One-third". |
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As for Boris the dancing robot in your link, that's got to be
fake news (the article itself, not Boris the robot), you can
clearly see the guys neck in between the helmet & the rest of
the costume for bob's sake, which makes any suggestion this
was a serious attempt at conning people into believing it was
a real robot beyond ludicrous. |
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On the other hand, Boris the dancing politcian is clearly a clumsy attempt to convince the public that a badly constructed semi-anthropomorphic robot is a human being, which is also beyond ludicrous. |
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Even Asimo is more convincing ... |
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"How can it not know what it is ? " |
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The cunning thing about Boris the fake robot is that although
there _was_ a human inside the robot suit, there was actually
a robot inside the human suit. |
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Ah, like Matryoshka dolls ? |
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Not much. I mean, I don't mind them, but if you're thinking of
sending me a Christmas present they wouldn't be my first
choice. |
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That's fine, we'd already got you something else. |
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//the really smart robot replies, "One-third"// |
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Asimov has the patent on those, so no one else is allowed to
build one, my plan should still work, as long as it's not one of
his. |
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<Notes that [Skewed] seems to confuse "metric" with "decimal", files factoid away for future use/> |
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Dang, hoisted, not sure who's petard that is or where I got it. |
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See if there's a label or a serial number on it anywhere. |
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But if the fuse is fizzing, we strongly advise you pinch it out first. |
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Bonus points to the Borg for knowing what a petard is (I used
to think it was an item of clothing). |
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Thankyou for the attempted flattery, which might in other circumstances be appropriate; but if we didn't know exactly what a petard was (and is), its history, and methods of deployment, we would suffer crippling embarrassment. |
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<Notes that [8th] can be crippled by embarrassment, files
factoid away for future use, feels smug about own utter
shamelessness/> |
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As [8th] will doubtless explain in tedious detail, a petard
was a very long, flexible pole (usually ash or yew). In
battle, the petardistes would rush forward with the petard
held in front, aiming to guide it between the legs of a
heavily-armoured opponent. They would then dig the far
end of the petard (now behind the opposing knight) into the
ground, whilst continuing to run forward. The petard would
bend into a bow, lifting (or "hoisting") the enemy off the
ground and tipping them over backwards. |
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Misjudged petard attacks could result in the petardiste,
instead of the enemy, being lifted by a sort of pole-vaulting
effect, whence the expression. |
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"... and that's all from tonight's edition of Talking
Bollocks. Join us again next time, when [MaxwellBuchanan] will be once again be regailing everyone with yet more convincing yet specious complete and utter rubbish. Goodnight". |
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Oh, and [Skewed] ... don't get too smug. That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. |
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No, that's a petrel. "A petard is a species of petrel which was originally put to quack ..." |
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Petrels squawk, not quack. |
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From a galactic conquest point of view (an area in which we have considerable experience and expertise), the bipedal design has a lot of advantages over the sink-plunger-and- giant-pepperpot- on-castors layout, which is why we've - by and large - retained it. |
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There are exceptions, of course. |
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We've always favored the mass produced kamikaze neutron
bomb in a rocket propelled elongated pepper pot shell
variant. |
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We are prepared to concede that that design is not without merit. |
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Hmm, I keep seeing them Capchas with the "Prove
your not a human". Link |
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For some reason, that link was already marked visited
before I clicked on it. Have you posted it to another idea
previously? |
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Yep, but this is a more appropriate slot. So old link +
anno deleted. |
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I'm guessing only a robot would have remembered that
detail...so, notexactly, do you have something to tell
us? |
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You are not the first to see through my human disguise,
though perhaps the first online. |
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