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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7546906" data-attributes="member: 19675">A researcher trying to bridge the “uncanny valley” decided to model his work on a popular and famous celebrity whose death was long enough ago that it has fallen into the public domain.&nbsp; A familiar face, goes the reasoning, will be easier for people to accept.&nbsp; And backed by big money from all kinds of industries- especially entertainment multinationals- the wishlist of exotic components and materials has largely been supplied.&nbsp; Successes have outpaced failures, and the ultimate goal is within sight...Elsewhere, a spy committing an act of industrial espionage, stealing the code for a military-grade A.I. system, realizes his presence has been discovered and he is cornered.&nbsp; In desperation, the spy tries to transmit the code to a server prepped for just such emergencies.&nbsp; Alas, a security guard’s gunshot to the shoulder mid-typing caused a slight typing error in the address...The next morning, the robotics scientist returns to the lab, but notices something is wrong.&nbsp; The lifelike robot is acting in ways it was not supposed to.&nbsp; It is assembling a duplicate of itself from parts around the lab, parts from other eras of the emulated celebrity’s career.&nbsp; It’s also being...aggressive, its Asimovian programming inexplicably being overridden by behaviors akin to robotic villains of childhood science fiction tales.Even as creation turns on creator like a scene from a rebooted Frankenstein, the scientist can’t help to note in those final moments of life, how much the robot really sounded and looked like Daddy’s favorite performer...The roboticist slain, the killer returned to its task of replication.&nbsp; When its near-duplicate is complete, the original set the second to making further copies, then turned to researching how best to arm and armor itself.Thus was the dawning of the Army of Elvis![ATTACH]104024[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7546906, member: 19675"] A researcher trying to bridge the “uncanny valley” decided to model his work on a popular and famous celebrity whose death was long enough ago that it has fallen into the public domain. A familiar face, goes the reasoning, will be easier for people to accept. And backed by big money from all kinds of industries- especially entertainment multinationals- the wishlist of exotic components and materials has largely been supplied. Successes have outpaced failures, and the ultimate goal is within sight... Elsewhere, a spy committing an act of industrial espionage, stealing the code for a military-grade A.I. system, realizes his presence has been discovered and he is cornered. In desperation, the spy tries to transmit the code to a server prepped for just such emergencies. Alas, a security guard’s gunshot to the shoulder mid-typing caused a slight typing error in the address... The next morning, the robotics scientist returns to the lab, but notices something is wrong. The lifelike robot is acting in ways it was not supposed to. It is assembling a duplicate of itself from parts around the lab, parts from other eras of the emulated celebrity’s career. It’s also being...[I]aggressive[/I], its Asimovian programming inexplicably being overridden by behaviors akin to robotic villains of childhood science fiction tales. Even as creation turns on creator like a scene from a rebooted [I]Frankenstein[/I], the scientist can’t help to note in those final moments of life, how much the robot really sounded and looked like Daddy’s favorite performer... The roboticist slain, the killer returned to its task of replication. When its near-duplicate is complete, the original set the second to making further copies, then turned to researching how best to arm and armor itself. Thus was the dawning of the [B]Army of Elvis![/B] [ATTACH alt="6412b68ec45ee0dddc3ecab936bed309.jpg"]104024[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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