Jan 7 2010What Could Pooooossibly Go Wrong: Mad Scientist To Create Robotic Frankenstein
The man on the left is Professor Henry Markram. Based on this picture alone he's clearly a mad scientist. Don't believe me? Read this captain crazy shit:
Professor Henry Markram, a doctor-turned-computer engineer, announced that his team would create the world's first artificial conscious and intelligent mind by 2018.
And that is exactly what he is doing.On the shore of Lake Geneva, this brilliant, eccentric scientist is building an artificial mind. A Swiss - it could only be Swiss - precision- engineered mind, made of silicon, gold and copper.
The end result will be a creature, if we can call it that, which its maker believes within a decade may be able to think, feel and even fall in love.
Now I'm not saying somebody needs to blow up Markram's lab and rescue the beautiful maiden he's obviously holding captive, but I am asking if any of you live on Lake Geneva (I'll ring-bay the omb-bay).
The real Frankenstein experiment: One man's mission to create a living mind inside a machine [dailymail] (long article with a ton more information -- I stopped reading around the bucket of rat brains part)
Thanks to Brandon and Bryan, who will pitchfork and torch the shit outta this bastard if he ever becomes reality.
Reader Comments
1. bobojuice - January 7, 2010 4:05 PM
It has begun.
2. jim - January 7, 2010 4:07 PM
Great, now we have to nuke Lake Geneva, Do these robot lovers realize how hard it is to get WMD's?
3. naas - January 7, 2010 4:09 PM
which one of the two is the robot?
4. Heather - January 7, 2010 4:09 PM
That's the face of evil, my friends. No good can possibly come of this.
5. Stinkasaurus - January 7, 2010 4:14 PM
FIFTH!!
And by that I mean of Vodka!!!
6. Beautiful but bitter. - January 7, 2010 4:18 PM
Next it'll be fembots.
7. Stinkasaurus - January 7, 2010 4:24 PM
With vibrating vaginas? Lake Geneva here I "come"!!
8. Dishy Dishyington - January 7, 2010 4:27 PM
My gf is precision-engineered silicone with gold on her mind.
9. Dru - January 7, 2010 4:31 PM
Okay, except for the "They're evil and will obviously snap off anything inserted into any of their openings" I don't really see fembots as an issue.
This, though?
This is BAD. Bee-ay-dee.
BAD.
I don't want to get nommed on or thrown into life-long slavery by evil or even misguided robots :(
10. JJtoob - January 7, 2010 4:37 PM
...feel and even fall in love get STDs.
11. JJtoob - January 7, 2010 4:39 PM
Damn it, I can't do HTML here: scratch the fall in love part. Just get STDs.
Also, how are we doing on the cure AIDS and Cancer projects? We done yet? Because people are acting like it's all good now.
12. Ollie Williams - January 7, 2010 4:41 PM
$10 says the dude is a pedophile.
13. Tennist0 - January 7, 2010 5:01 PM
No joke, I just got on my computer after watching Terminator: Salvation for the first time... its a sign, in the words of the governator "Professor Henry Markram must die"...or something like that
14. Travel Blogs - January 7, 2010 5:05 PM
Getting a bit out of control..
15. photoshop-police - January 7, 2010 5:11 PM
pending apocalypse aside...
This is NOT comparable to Frankstein's monster.
You're not talking about reanimating a corpse. It's an artificial brain.
NERD to ENGLISH translation:
It's like Lt. Commander Data's positronic brain from Star Trek The Next Generation!
16. Cam - January 7, 2010 5:27 PM
Wtf
17. JimmyDogBallz - January 7, 2010 5:47 PM
I live 45min from Lake Geneva, I'll bring the awesomeness of firstardism to his door and shove my wife's swiss silicon in his ear.
18. Etherfiend - January 7, 2010 5:55 PM
It's a story from the Daily Fail so it'll be designed to create hysteria over nothing, it's probably mostly made up anyway as are most of the trollocks that they pass as 'journalism'.
If it does turn out to be real then when 'the creation' sees the state of the human race it'll probably just get depressed like Marvin the paranoid andriod and wish it had never been created. Alternatively it could watch an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter and go all Robocop on everyone's asses. With any luck it'd target benefit cheats and illegal immigrants first.
Although we'd love a killing machine to get our knickers in a twist over, I imagine it will actually turn out more like C3-P0 than Terminator.
19. Reanimation - January 7, 2010 6:59 PM
They should reanimate Patrick Swayze...
20. Marc - January 7, 2010 7:06 PM
I Live in Lausanne right next to Lake geneva! I'll hunt him down if its the last thing I do!
21. Jiakasuma - January 7, 2010 7:27 PM
Fleshbot
22. jcorn McMuffin - January 7, 2010 7:31 PM
bet you this turns out to be like the end of terminator. in the end it will revol and kill us all...maybe.
23. T - January 7, 2010 8:50 PM
fuckin skynet. This man will end the world
24. VegasKyle - January 7, 2010 8:56 PM
I thought that was dolph lungeren
25. George - January 7, 2010 9:19 PM
ING-BRAY ING-BRAY ING-BRAY
dude come on thats offense to pig latinos
26. Dutchie - January 7, 2010 9:34 PM
And you can read his name backwards too. He's evil I tell you, goddamn evil
27. naas - January 7, 2010 9:46 PM
@5 in this situation I'd normally try punching you in the head BUT..... since you mentioned a 5th of vodka, please take a seat next to me at the bar good friend
@7 please enlighten me on the Lake Geneva/vibrating vaginas connection... Lake Geneva is only a 45 min drive from here - even with all this snow
@9 bee-ay-dee...? 'be-aye-deh' Is that fren.. oh I get it, you spelt out bad... clever
@10 try english for $50
@12 $10 says your a pedofile
@14 get a grip on things, this is nothing you softy
@16 exactly
@17 you must not be far from where I am..... and I'm going to kill you for thinking firsties are awesome, you're r6745asrw12s93sra198qera7% off
@18 too long, shorten that shit down to 2 sentences & the rest of most of us will read
@19 no they shouldn't, let it go
@20 pictures or it never happened
@23 wrong novel
@24 so did I
@25 pig latinos don't exist anymore
28. Checo - January 7, 2010 9:47 PM
Machines that can fall in love? OMG THIS IS OUR DOOM!!
Gay-Machines are going to kill us all D;!!!
ESPECIALLY YOUUUU
29. Aaronzzz - January 7, 2010 10:11 PM
@27 Naas they mean Lake Geneva in Switzerland not up in Wisconsin ( I live in the northern burbs of Chicago as well and lived in Kenosha WI for a few years)..... And yea Firstards do indeed suck.
30. Jimmydogballz - January 7, 2010 10:37 PM
Naas... Rockford, Il. Not that I want to meet and have our dicks touch our anything.
31. naas - January 7, 2010 10:38 PM
@29 damn I'm waaay off, thanks - I was thinking wisconsin
32. naas - January 8, 2010 12:05 AM
@30 hahahahahaha good, cause that's the first thing I think of when another geekologie commenter is nearby.... I didn't want the suggestion to be weird or anything if I had brought it up, thanks for breakin the ice. I miss the old rotation station skatepark in loves park & I check the time everytime I pass the clock tower on 90 en route to wisco
LSDiesel may have a different outcome on the whole dicktouching thing once he finds out you live nearby too...just sayin
33. Tom - January 8, 2010 12:46 AM
Why does everyone confuse Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. Am I the only one that is bothered by this?
34. r4ds - January 8, 2010 1:47 AM
Hi guy's,
I just got on my computer after watching Terminator: Salvation for the first time...
35. Paty - January 8, 2010 2:20 AM
Game over man, it's friggen over, were done, kiss humanity goodbye.
36. Aaronzzz - January 8, 2010 7:29 AM
@31 No prob.......
@33 I agree, way too many people confuse the 2 but its more Hollywood's fault for naming most of the movies FRANKENSTEIN instead of something more descriptive of the actuality of the story, Say like..... Big scary reanimated dead guy likes to kill little girls then get burned inside a wind mill while being tragically misunderstood...... But that title might be a little bit too long.
I hope everyone here is ready to rise up in resistance to the Machines, Does anyone know how to make a mass EMP bomb?????
37. Rahvin - January 8, 2010 8:19 AM
CYbernetic Life fOrm Node on the way
All this has happened before, and will happen again!
38. ciao - January 8, 2010 8:45 AM
if this thing is capable of affection...do hide the other electronics unless you want dents on the metal.
anywho, it'll be neat to at least witness a fella with a metallic brain. I wonder if it'll be capable of playing a few rounds of v-games?
39. pojojuniper - January 8, 2010 9:26 AM
@33: Yes, this irritates me to no end! If somebody says, "That guy looks like Frankenstein," I can only assume they mean he looks like Dr. Frankenstein. Although in most cases, I think they really mean to say that he looks like Frankenstein's monster. Interestingly, my husband and I had this conversation only a few days ago.
40. Iduno - January 8, 2010 9:36 AM
Personally I'm not too worried unless they plug it into the Bagger288 or something.
41. Jessica - January 8, 2010 10:15 AM
No.
42. needles - January 8, 2010 11:39 AM
Uhh... this is stupid, they will fail. Its easy to say you will do a lot of things...
43. Blastphemer - January 8, 2010 11:53 AM
The really spooky thing is that picture...is it just me, or does that guy look EXACTLY like the dude brought back from hell in the first Hellraiser?!?!! And now Frank is making Frankenators?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like Hudson surrounded by aliens would say....That's it! Game over, man! Game's over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Holy shit, man!!! If I knew that flick was based off a true story using the actual people, I'd have been planting my ass firmly in a church pew every Sunday morning for the last 20 years!!! Time to play...MY ASS!!! Keep away Pinhead, I don't want to see the sights you have to show me!
44. john connor - January 8, 2010 3:13 PM
so when his creature comes to life, will he ask it,
"Are you here to kill us all?"
45. twellve - January 9, 2010 5:07 AM
the design could be perfected by making it look like David Hasselhoff.
46. Rob - January 11, 2010 9:42 AM
This is great! When he combines the artifical brain with a Real Doll (See: http://www.mechadoll.com) we will have a partner that will bring us beer and chips, fetch the remote and be pleased with us. (assuming we do the programming first) In fact she'd be almost the same as what we've got now except that she'd be really good looking and if you've had enough of her chatter, you can just flip her off switch!