Google is well known for sprucing up their normally spartan search page with simple holiday related graphics on and around, well, holidays. So WTF is this image that they currently have up supposed to represent?
If you know or have a guess, please let us know in the comments. Best answer wins 100 Science Points!!!!!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Is google celebrating some yet unknown ceramic/metallic flower holiday we are not aware of?
i'm not so sure why, but the first thing that came to my mind were buttplugs. i don't think those are a holiday-specific identifier though...
That, my friends, is a Robotic Baby Rattle.
Explanation follows:
At some point in the not-too-distant future, robots will be imbued with intelligence at or beyond the levels of biological human cognition. At this point robots will have the means to design and create their own robot kin. Since a large portion of current AI research is involved in mimicking the actions of the human brain, I believe that as a side effect, robot may have human like emotions and feelings. Following this line of logic I think that the early conscious robots will be jealous of the perceived joys of human society and will model their own society after ours. This includes the creation of juvenile robots (robots can create their own robots remember) that progress to full ‘adulthood’ in order to experience ‘the joy of parenthood’.
Inevitable there will be some conflict between the biological humans and the artificial robots, likely due to human feeling of superiority of robots, and the robots resentment of those feelings. Subtle likes and dislike will arise due to these conflicts e.g. Robots may favor objects of a shiny metallic nature, as opposed to duller flesh like ones. Certainly these sentiments will reflect themselves in the day to day devices found around the home, such as these shiny metallic robot baby rattles.
typo it should be
"human feeling of superiority over robots"
Raver shovels. In case they need to dig their way out of the club.
Aaron is the closest. They are Chrome Tulips commemorating the work of the "artist" Jeff Koons. Google is teaming up with world famous "artists" and "innovators" including Koons, coldplay, and Anne "Naked Baby lover" Geddes, and this is just the first of many to show up on the main page.
... and the correct answer is 'art', or 'tulips'. it looks like neither of those. when google features such tripe on their homepage, no body wins :(
oh, and about those science points... they are going to be split between the only three non-PS staff who commented, carbear, stuart, and chris, since aaron technically was the first to get the answer, and chris obviously cheated. congrats to all.
I still think it's a bouquet of colorful sperm.
colorful, robot sperm
I still think my answer is the best answer, regardless of what the correct answer is.
that may be so, peter, but PS writers already have infinity science points, so i had to give the points to the newly initiated acolytes of science.
Wait wait wait... How exactly is knowing the correct answer cheating?
there is a large difference between making a guess and looking up the answer. i guess you aren't really cheating. you got your science points, so why are you complaining anyway?
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