That's right. Your tax dollars are going to the development of AI so sophisticated that you think it's a human being. And how are they going to test it? By throwing it into the proverbial online fire that is World of Warcraft. So next time you yell for a healbot you might actually get one! Oh, and they're also making some other leaps in technology that could possibly change the face of modern warfare as well.

 

Self-regenerating body parts. Intelligent "virtual soldiers." Mind-controlled weapons. Brain "wipes" to purge traumatic memories. "Quantum ghost imaging."

The U.S. Army's working on all of these concepts, according to a report on Military.com, a private military-oriented Web site.

"Making science fiction into reality" is the goal, says Dr. John Parmentola, the Army's director for research and laboratory management.

"You can imagine people who have horrifying memories, it would be great if we could eliminate them so this way they're not plagued by these memories uncontrollably," he says, explaining research into cleaning soldiers' minds of recollections that cause post-traumatic stress disorder.

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The NTS, Korea’s national tax service, has begun to add on VAT automatically as part of financial transactions as of July 1, reports IM69. “Sellers who do between 6 and 12 million won ($6,500 - by Tom Ivan3,000) /half

As each day goes by, and more and more money is changing hands in online worlds, governments get closer and closer to stepping in and demanding a piece of the pie. As they do. In the US, that day\'s just gotten a lot clo