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Deceiving Robots Created

A team of robotics experts have produced the first machine that can deceive and sneak around, while trying to avoid capture. The accomplishment says a lot about their skills with AI programming. Analysts call this the first instance in which robots were endowed with the capability to exhibit deceptive behavior. The m...

14 September 2010
11:16 GMT

Online and Real-Life Dater Very Similar

Researchers at the University of Kansas have determined that people who tend to date online exhibit a very similar type of behavior to the ones that do so in real-life. The study was focused on determining whether online daters that lie do so to deceive others knowingly or not. The experts learned that this was not c...

4 March 2010
08:41 GMT

Robots Evolve to Be Deceiving

According to a new set of experiments, it would appear that robots have the ability to deceive other robots, especially after they are specifically bred to do so. In the studies, small machines with artificial, animal-derived computer brains, quickly learned to deceive each other, if the reward was well worth. The fi...

19 August 2009
01:35 GMT

Why 'Saints' Are at Times Bad, and 'Sinners' Good

Saints – and we use this term to describe people of high moral value, who generally practice what they preach – are oftentimes considered to be incorruptible. But they too can do things that raise questions, such as adultery, extortion, deceit, and so on, and offend even the most loose-moralled individual...

7 July 2009
03:00 GMT

Exxon Keeps Funding Anti-Global Warming Lobbyists

It would appear that the big corporations have taken an active interest in fighting for lost causes. In the last such battle, the oil giant Exxon was proven to still be supporting conservatory lobby groups, which advocate that global warming is not real. Or if it is, it's not caused by us. And if it is, it'...

2 July 2009
04:42 GMT

12 Euphemisms Used to Mislead You

Here is a list of the 12 most misleading sets of words that we could find in use, most of them in the United States, which seems to have a real appetite for calling things by names they have nothing to do with. These are just a few examples. Binocular Deprivation means no more no less than to sew an animal's ey...

5 February 2009
01:01 GMT


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