Japanese Scientists Unveil Thinking, Learning Robot
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Well...That's..great. I'm just hoping when the robots start tearing humanity a new one I'll be an old man. That way at least I can die knowing that I lived a probably not as long as I want life but decent enough. Seriously a thinking robot that can get smarter over time and use the internet.I get that the robots to be feared wont be around for years and years to come but still. Is it some kind of prerequisite for being a scientist that you have never watched an end of the world/robots take over movie?
Its times like these when I'm glad to have the japanese as our friends in the mutual pursuit of higher technology... while at the same time being seperated from them by 5000 miles of open ocean.
Seriously? No offworld colonies, no space travel, no genetically engineered super soldiers but robots that can overthrow humanity, no problem. Man the future sucks.
I'd say emotion would be the deciding factor. And I don't see that magically happening like it does in the movies. A robot could replicate emotions if it learned what situation they'd apply and such, but it couldn't actually feel them.Abandon4093 said:
As for the hivemind, I think that's the coolest part. This is definitely a huge step, but we've had somewhat adaptive AI being worked on for a while, none resulting in something quite like this but still. The hivemind thing means they can learn much faster. It would be horribly inefficient for every robot to have to learn the same things.
So yes, I am incredibly happy about this. It's made my night (well, morning really).
have none of these scientists ever seen a single sci-fi film. this is just an end of the world level accident waitng to happen.
You're missing an important detail. While this would function for some scenarios, and is a good baseline, one must also judge whether the same action is equally harmful to all. Is a punch in the face to everybody fair when one such person has brittle bones, which increase his risky of dying from a punch in the face?JamesBr said:
Cool, now humans will have something to use for target practice instead of other humans and an excuse to develop weapons.
So, it's an artificial intelligence with a hive mind? thank you, Japan, you have invented the Geth.
Oh come on, Japan! I was hoping to at least get a few more decades out of life!
Seriously, I usually laugh at the Skynet doom prophet brigade, but the fact that this thing communicates with other bots and utilizes the internet to expand its knowledge is a bit unnerving, to say the least.
Seriously, I usually laugh at the Skynet doom prophet brigade, but the fact that this thing communicates with other bots and utilizes the internet to expand its knowledge is a bit unnerving, to say the least.
Yes, this AI isn't self-aware, but self-aware AI hasn't been disproven, and is actually one of the main goals of AI research. If we are one day able to perfectly model a chimp brain (chimps are self-aware), then we can theoretically make a self-aware AI.zehydra said:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI
Developmental robotics are pretty cool. I had the chance to see one working in person. They taught the robot how to swipe a debit card based on constrained spaces or something like that and by using that single algorithm, the robot was able to complete a wide range of tasks.
great... all we need to have it access is 4chan or any of that interweb pr0n... seeings how that's about 90% of the internet right there, we've successfully dropped the IQ of our robot friends by half.EverythingIncredible said:
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A bit of a scary thought, but I don't really think it's a problem as long as it's knowledge base is kept on a tight leash and follows the 3 laws of robotics without twisting them into it's own interpretation (like in iRobot wooahhh man)