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         I, for one, am still awaiting our self-aware robotic overlords
                                        
> Roboticists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have built
> a trio of robots that were put through the classic 'wise men puzzle' test
> of self-awareness - and one of them passed.
> 

Via GoogleMyFacePlusSpaceBookTwitter, “Uh-oh, a robot just passed the self-
awareness test | TechRadar [1]”

I wouldn't worry too much—all this robot did was run some code to solve a
logic problem [2], probably using code written in Prolog [3] or something
similar.

Nothing to see here … move along … the computer is your friend [4] …

[1] http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/uh-oh-this
[2] http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/a-logical-
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
[4] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsYourFriend

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