Summary:
a robot designed to explore planets without the need for human
intervention, becomes bored and decides to go exploring the compound
of the institute. While being polite, he is nonetheless very
destructive, but is eventually caught by bulldozers and is turned off
by one of the scientists.
This
story is another exploration on robot explorers, although this one is
about the beginning stage of building something that is capable of
learning.
I had
a couple concerns about the story; Why would you build a machine that
is so destructive until you iron out all the wrinkles in the
programming? Is turning it off technically killing it, if it is
capable of independent thought? A machine that is built for exploring
seems to spend very little time on actual exploring. When it enters a
new environment it seems to spend very little time exploring before
moving on.
It's
a short story but it feels like it's another handful of details to a
proposed situation.
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