> the group was German, so I don’t know why the song is in Russian+English<p>Kraftwerk wrote and released both German and English versions of most of their music. For example, in Germany this song was released as "Die Roboter".<p>Occasionally they also mix other languages in their lyrics, another example on top of my head is the Numbers song. I assume that it makes them sound more international which helps a lot with the "futuristic" sound.
When he's talking about robots machine learning motions beyond simple poses and human created grammars, it reminded me of when Offensive bias was free to maneuver it's ships in ways that would be fatal to its occupants after the Halo rings fired. I guess the same will be true of full autonomous war drones.
There's even a "hyperorganic" Rubik's Cube algorithm: the stereotypical organic algorithm solves the cube layer by layer, only pulling out the fanciest moves to get the last few cubies in place. The hyperorganic algorithm is intensely group theoretic, and starts by allowing any kind of movement, but then cuts it down: from any quarter turns to half turns only, etc. (apparently just at the time no legal moves are left according to the algo, the cube should be solved), and the distinguishing feature is that instead of having clear progress layer-by-layer, it still looks mostly, inscrutably, scrambled until almost the final steps, when it suddenly "crystallises" into a solved cube.<p>Lagniappe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yTrFDHpbw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yTrFDHpbw</a>