United Nations To Debate Ban on Killer Robots

ccggenius12

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Robots don't rape or torture? Challenge accepted.
But seriously, the first application new communication technology is used for is porn, I have a hard time believing that robots simply cannot rape people, without a conscious decision made to preclude such an individual robot from having the capability, if not the proclivity.
 

Agayek

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ccggenius12 said:
Robots don't rape or torture? Challenge accepted.
But seriously, the first application new communication technology is used for is porn, I have a hard time believing that robots simply cannot rape people, without a conscious decision made to preclude such an individual robot from having the capability, if not the proclivity.
The question is not "can". The question is "will".

And robots have no reason to practice rape, unlike meatbag soldiers. It's not a good reason, but there's still a reason to do it.

Robots don't have that, thus they wouldn't do it.
 

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Xpwn3ntial said:
Fine. Pass the law. Ban killer robots.

Like that's going to stop me.
Ditto. My army is already in mass production.

Now, they shall SUFFER! SUFFER!

...I mean...
 

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Desert Punk said:
ccggenius12 said:
Robots don't rape or torture? Challenge accepted.
But seriously, the first application new communication technology is used for is porn, I have a hard time believing that robots simply cannot rape people, without a conscious decision made to preclude such an individual robot from having the capability, if not the proclivity.
I fear for the washing machines of the future, Robot chicken meets nostradamus man

Ever use a Samsung washing machine? They're disturbingly happy to do their jobs as it is, they sing and everything. For that matter, I had a chance to try out a Samsung CRT TV the other day. I wound up walking home with a Sony model, but much like my washing machine, the Samsung TV sang to me when I turned it on and off. It's like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but with slavery.
 

Redlin5_v1legacy

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What is there to debate? Let's just not go there. At all. Ever.

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[sub][sub][sub]Childhood fears of robots still half haunting me...[/sub][/sub][/sub]
 

Xpwn3ntial

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Ditto. My army is already in mass production.

Now, they shall SUFFER! SUFFER!

...I mean...
They shall KNEEL! KNEEL BEFORE PWN!

Still working on getting my own evil catchphrase.
 

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I'm gonna address the article author and readers separately in this post.

To the readers:
As a student of AI and a frequent receiver of jokes akin to "Here goes the future developer of Skynet" allow me to say to all those worrying/cracking jokes about robot uprising...

You have no idea how far away we are from coming up with anything remotely close to developing an artificial agent[footnote]Agent, as defined in robotics, is anything that's capable of observation and manipulation of its surrounding environment, no matter how limited. Under this definition, anything ranging from a living beings ranging from humans down to most single cell life forms, or various electronic/virtual devices like a robot, video game npc or even a self adjusting furnace, with a built in thermometer is considered an agent.[/footnote], capable of self aware thoughts. Like, you wouldn't believe how far away we are.

Currently, all forms of AI are nothing more then sophisticated search algorithms designed to solve specific tasks, based on given input. Sometimes, the resulting agent can display lifelike qualities but in those cases they're just that... lifelike. No independent thought process took place during that event. It's all purely based on how well the designer implemented its capabilities at finding the optimum solution, as defined by the designer.

This is not me trying to claim that artificial life can never exist, nor that we should never wonder about the philosophical implications of having to deal with our own homebrewed version of the Geth, but with our current understanding on how a real brain makes independent decisions, compared with our current methods of implementing artificial "intelligence", right now there's 0% chances about us having to deal with such worries in the foreseeable future.

In reality, the biggest crime here is the fact that the term "Artificial Intelligence" is used for this, since we really have no idea how normal intelligence works, let alone how to make an artificial version of it. Really, the best way to calm humanity's fear of robotics, would be a mandatory introduction course in AI development. I can think of no better way to make people stop with this fear mongering and go "...oh... Is that it?"

Now, a little bit of note to the author:
Look, I understand that when it comes to writing articles like these, it's important to catch the attention of readers, but these constant allusions on how screwed we are, along with these multiple tie ins to robot apocalypse movies is a bit much.

I also wish to argue with your decision to tie this with Asimov's laws. The laws work fine (to a point; even Asimov himself didn't shy away from writing stories demonstrating scenarios where the laws would come into conflicts) in a science fiction environment but are next to useless and impossible to implement into modern day robotics.

The purpose of this assembly is to define accountability to human rights violations, when it comes to designing autonomous weapons platforms. If you design a robot that's meant to shoot enemy combatants and it drives into the nearest village and massacres all of its inhabitants, you can't just shrug shoulders and claim faulty programing. For as long as you can't guaranty that your agents are incapable of committing human rights violations, it is the wishes of the Human Rights Council that no LARs are created.

On a final note to everyone, I say that you all should stop worrying so senselessly about your living room door being kicked down by an angry killbot since it obviously distracts you from the real danger of robotics.

Mainly sex robots.​
 

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Best start writing the Orange Catholic Bible...

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind."
 

FalloutJack

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The Robopocalypse won't happen because all of our software is buggy. The Termies will blue screen long before they can obliterate humanity.
 

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All I have to say on the issue is this...

Screw autonomous robots, make 'em big as hell and give me my goddamn Gundam Fight.

 

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MrGalactus said:
Why not just have killer robots fight other killer robots? No actual death, awesome robo combat, and a whole new sport we can bet on.
They already tried that in the UK. Robot wars was a popular series going strong until a producer decided that they did not like the show and forced it to fail by moving it to a horrible timeslot
Well yeeeeeeah, but robot wars wan't exactly Terminator versus Robocop. They had giant cheese slice versus spiky-frisbee-tron.
 

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If robots ever achieve sentience, will they really care about bans? We're already moving towards robot surgeons and with everything moving towards wireless, it won't be that much of a stretch for robots to share knowlegde. Que a butlerbot carving up more than a turkey.
I think they're less worried about a robot uprising and more worried about a combat drone blowing up a village or the issues of responsibility that autonomous killing machines raise. If a drone takes out civilians because of a programming wonk, whose fault is it?
Lets be honest here. There has yet to be someone in the US to take responsibility for any of the killing they do and there is no way that the UN can stop the US from using the drones. All this can do is stop smaller countries from every getting close to the US. The US doesn't care about the UN or about the Geneva convention while they do force those "rules" on small countries.
 

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"Decisions over life and death in armed conflict may require compassion and intuition. Humans - while they are fallible - at least might possess these qualities, whereas robots definitely do not."

 

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There's just one problem with this: The UN is a joke. For decades, plenty of its member nations have continued to commit human rights violations in spite of UN policies. So no matter what they decide, everyone who can is still going to make killer robots.
 

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Why?
I mean for most part anything human does, machine can do faster and more efficiently
So instead of sending squad of soldiers to take out enemy (and do any random amount of collateral damage in process, while risking with their lives), we can send a group of LARs and at most they will make a few new holes in the walls
Of course programming is the issue here
Because glitches may result in unnecessary deaths