Japanese Scientists Unveil Thinking, Learning Robot

[allways2edlast]

Well. If hollywood has showen us time and time again Robots that think for them selfs, never end well.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Useful, and amazing, but people ought to remind themselves that it is not self-aware, and that self-awareness is impossible with an Artificial intelligence.

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.


http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

Why in God's name would we want to do that? It'll end up destroying us and it's cruel to make something that can't die.

 

[King Toasty]

Sure, we make Skynet jokes now. But wait until it learns how to build more robots.

 

[King Toasty]

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.

Wait, it uses the Internet? Jesus H. Copperfield, what hath we wrought.

 

[souper soup guy]

Neat, I can't wait for the day when all manual labor is done by robots.
Then humans will be fatter and lazier, and I'll be able to conquer the world, with military drones of course.

 

[Linolium25]

"The robot remembers only basic knowledge, and it can apply the knowledge to its immediate situation." - most of the kids in my class can't do that.
Hell, most of the people in my cram school can't do that.
Long story short - world is doomed.

 

[poppabaggins]

Useful, and amazing, but people ought to remind themselves that it is not self-aware, and that self-awareness is impossible with an Artificial intelligence.

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.


http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

Why in God's name would we want to do that? It'll end up destroying us and it's cruel to make something that can't die.

Your name says it all. I'm insane, and I want to play God. But really, sentient AI doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. If anything, it will be needed for when we're all living in computers in the future. I want to be immortal, and we need AI to make that possible.

 

[MordinSolus]

Fucking hell Japan, you'll be the death of us all.

Not if we make combat parkour robots first! That's to say that they can do parkour, but also fight in a war (fire assault/sniper rifles, take cover, etc.)

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Were the Terminator movies not released in Japan? or the Matrix movies? I mean come one guys, do we really want to create thinking machines??? REALLY???

 

[Alcamonic]

Aww, a bartender bot! Now for them to invent a fully operational robo-butler (been waiting most of my life for one) and I will be a happy pig.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

When japanese and their robots rule the world. I'll be on their side

 

[MikailCaboose]

Why always Japan with the technological leaps?

Because with the entire post-WWII agreement with America they can focus entirely on such things without defense spending. Which is expensive and time-consuming.

 

[NathLines]

I wouldn't be too alarmed when the inevitable robot uprising begin, knowing that they think peas are water and ice is blue plastic.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

To quote myrdon from doraleous & associates "we are screwed!"
Seriously, did no one learn from mass effect? Or system shock?

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Useful, and amazing, but people ought to remind themselves that it is not self-aware, and that self-awareness is impossible with an Artificial intelligence.

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.


http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

Why in God's name would we want to do that? It'll end up destroying us and it's cruel to make something that can't die.

Your name says it all. I'm insane, and I want to play God. But really, sentient AI doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. If anything, it will be needed for when we're all living in computers in the future. I want to be immortal, and we need AI to make that possible.

Would you want to be immortal with out the choice to die?

I can understand wanting to live forever in theory, but I think eventually I'd want to leave.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Can we like nuke them now? lets just go ahead and do that, when the robot apoc comes I'll say 'Fucking GD Japanese, this is THEIR fault"

Please somebody tell them this is a really bad idea.

 

[Warforger]

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.

I'm confused, what part of giving robots the ability to think and make decisions means they're going to make the decision to KILL US ALL. It still makes no sense at all. I mean we have the ability to think and we haven't decided to kill all robots. It's a stupid idea to make a threat to the humans.

 

[poppabaggins]

Useful, and amazing, but people ought to remind themselves that it is not self-aware, and that self-awareness is impossible with an Artificial intelligence.

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.


http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

Why in God's name would we want to do that? It'll end up destroying us and it's cruel to make something that can't die.

Your name says it all. I'm insane, and I want to play God. But really, sentient AI doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. If anything, it will be needed for when we're all living in computers in the future. I want to be immortal, and we need AI to make that possible.

Would you want to be immortal with out the choice to die?

I can understand wanting to live forever in theory, but I think eventually I'd want to leave.

Life is to great for me to think that I would ever want to die. There's always something new to experience and there's too little time to do everything. Also, I'm mainly talking about living as a conscious being inside a computer (or a hybrid human/computer-connected cyborg). If I'm in a computer, the possibilities are endless (think the Matrix, but you control everything). By 2018, we'll be able to fit a human brain into $1000 worth of RAM, so I'm really hoping that we can get the proper technology to make me immortal within my lifetime.

Now if I survived so long that everything in the universe disappeared and I had no possibility of creating things on my own, that's where I would want to end it.

 

[Alphakirby]

Ah, skynet, you're here. Take a seat.

Fucking ninjas,always stealing my ideas.
Yeah,my first thought was Skynet too,soon enough I'll be looking in the phone books for Cohn Jonner to save us from the robots of doom.

 

[Ukomba]

Yay! Here come the Geth!

Just don't forget the self destruct:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuUQp8nvxUU