Re: Why is Star Trek so robophobic?

"Sean O'Hara" <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:604ffjF1p6b7tU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful Victor Velazquez 
> declared:
>>
>> I guess I'm just having a hard time imagining a being not produced by 
>> billions of years of evolution having any motivations at all but that's
a 
>> function of my limited imagination.
>>
>
> There was a recent news story about scientists building robots that 
> learned how to lie -- the scientists placed three groups in an
environment 
> and set them to search out "food" some of which was "poisoned". One
group 
> discovered some of the poisoned food and sent a competing group to eat
it.

OMG that is so cool!  And scary.  Any chance of some linkage?