Could a MACK truck really change into a giant robot?

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I have a question. It's kind of a two parter....

 

Do you think that a MACK truck could change into a giant fighting robot, and also....do you think it would be possible to have that giant fighting robot be sentient? I mean, could a robot that changes into a truck actually have feelings and think on it's own?

[Caesar 305]

Potentially, though not for a long time, and it wouldn't be a very cost effective combat system.

 

I think a big problem with computers and robots is that we, humans, have to design and program them. None of them will ever be able to "think" outside the box until we figure out a way to make them. Part of it, in my own opinion, is a lack of inputs. Look at us: we have 5 senses and evolved over billions of years from far simpler organisms within this universe to become "intelligent," able to adapt to many input values: we need food, so we hunt, and hunting comprises of its own inputs for each animal: where is it, what can and can not kill it, how receptive is it to sounds and images, etc. With a robot, the only inputs it recognizes are those which we program it to recognize. Hence we get robots that can follow waypoints, target things that look similar to pre-stored images; a massive advancement in and of itself, but still primitive with relation to human beings. It can't think on its own. If you wanted a combat robot to go out and pick up a case of beer, it couldn't do it without major program changes or additions. A robot does not "feel," it does not recognize right from wrong, and is still mostly in its own universe of 1's and 0's. It has to be shown our universe with programs and outside I/O devices.

 

On the second note, a giant robot is not a very cost-effective system. When you consider how much time, effort and resources are used to make that robot, and then that we've got weapons today that will blast through concrete bunkers no problem and descimate them in the explosion, I'd wonder how well a 100-billion dollar+ robot would stand up to a 40,000-dollar bomb, or maybe 4, totalling 1/833333rd the cost to destroy the thing. So, it'd certainly be cool, but how effective cost-wise to combat-wise is questionable.

 

So, is it possible? Once someone figures out a way to get the robot to recognize our world well enough, and to make its own decisions once powered up, I'd say so, but when will that happen? Not for a while.

Edited September 29, 2007 by Caesar

[+Dave 2,322]

No.....

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OK....if a MACK couldn't, then surely a Peterbilt could change into a giant robot with emotions and the ability to think for himself.

[Wrench 9,846]

I think it would all depend on the 3d modeler, how he created the animaitons in Max, and if it was speed controled or set via an animation keystroke

 

As for the sentiant AI, perhaps they're using one of those new dual-core Alienware machines???

 

 

Wrench

kevin stein

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No....I meant for real.

[+Dave 2,322]

As for the sentiant AI, perhaps they're using one of those new dual-core Alienware machines???

 

I have one of those Kev.

 

and again Paul.....

 

No.....

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International?

[+Dave 2,322]

International?

 

No

 

Let tell you in French

No

 

In Spanish

No

 

In Russian

Nyet

 

In Turkish

Hyar

 

In German

Nein

 

and just in case...you still dont understand

 

NO!

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Kenworth?

[+Dave 2,322]

no

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Ford?

[+Dave 2,322]

No

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Freightliner?

[+Dave 2,322]

No

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IHC?

[+Dave 2,322]

Nope getting warmer.....

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Volvo?

[+Dave 2,322]

Hey keep girl parts out of this, children could be reading.....

[Fubar512 1,350]

Paul, did you mean "MACK" truck, or, "MAC" truck, as in "MAC" tools. It would make a difference, ya know......

[FOTF 0]

You know Fubar....very good point......

 

 

I meant Mack.....How about that? Could the Mack chance into a giant robot?

[+Dave 2,322]

You know Fubar....very good point......

I meant Mack.....How about that? Could the Mack chance into a giant robot?

 

Only if made from Legos....

[FOTF 0]

Hmmmmm.....interesting.

 

how about a Pontiac Solstice? Oops....I mean a Porsche 935 Turbo?

[+Dave 2,322]

Hmmmmm.....interesting.

 

how about a Pontiac Solstice? Oops....I mean a Porsche 935 Turbo?

 

Only if made from cream cheese....

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I happen to have a bucket of Cream Cheese in the fridge....

 

Think I will try a little experiement while listening to Jazz