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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
- Bart Kosko
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| Robots Earn For Individuals | ||
| The point at which humanoid robots with AGI can be purchased and then rented out by ordinary people, for a profit. |
| MEN LONG ago had dreamed that in a robot age the factories and businesses would own the robots and service them. Instead, individual people made the capital investment, paid for maintenance and repairs. The companies hired the robots and paid a small wage to the owner. This way the company got the benefit of cheap labor, without major investment and the small investors profited, too — once they had paid off their robot loans. |
| Technovelgy from The Instigators,
by Raymond E. Banks. Published by Science Fiction Stories in 1956 Additional resources -
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