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Record 1 2005-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

The suggestion that no forms of life have been found in outer space because machines have destroyed the intelligent extraterrestrial species that created them.

OBS

Compare Brake equation, von Newmann problem.

OBS

berserker: A self-reproducing machine programmed to destroy (intelligent) life. The existence of berserkers is one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

extraterrestre : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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