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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Released in: 1997

Movie Description

A topiary gardener, a lion tamer, a naked mole-rat researcher, and an AI researcher discuss attempts to control behavior.

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  • Overall: 4.9
  • SD: 0.3
  • Votes: 20

  • Overall: 4.4
  • SD: 0.5
  • Votes: 19

  • Overall: 3.9
  • SD: 0.8
  • Votes: 18

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  • lion: 0.58
  • robotics: 0.3
  • rats: 0.25
  • robot: 0.19
  • ants: 0.16
  • interviews: 0.16
  • subjects: 0.14
  • robots: 0.14
  • animal: 0.13
  • designer: 0.12
  • connections: 0.11
  • animals: 0.11
  • garden: 0.1
  • resonances: 0.1
  • archival: 0.1
  • mammals: 0.08
  • managers: 0.08
  • abstracting: 0.08
  • fields: 0.07
  • expert: 0.07

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  2. Behavior Based Robotics
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  3. Mobile Robots
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  4. Consciousness Animal
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  5. Animalism
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  6. Cognition Animal
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  7. Frame Problem
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  8. Artificial Intelligence
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  9. Artificial Life
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  10. Metaphor
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