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by Mark Masterson.
Original Post: Somewhere Philip K. Dick is Smiling...
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... the elevator’s emergency phone system was getting a junk phone call from a robot. The robot was telling the elevator that it “should act now to renew the extended warranty on its car.” We now live in a world where machines are spamming each other.
Emergent behaviour. The world is not deterministic, it is probabilistic. You can plan -- you just can't rely on it.
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