Pentagon hires British scientist to help build "ethical" robot soldiers
Monday December 1, 2008
Oh.My.Heck! Do they not realize that it's robots' "ethics" that lead to them trying to eliminate the source of the world's problems: man. In all of the robot-takes-over-world type movies that is the issue, I, Robot, Eagle Eye, and The...
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Yeah, I read that and I thought of you. Maybe you're right that this is the start of The Matrix. But I still think it's many decades off. We definitely need to keep humans in the loop.
Michele and ZZ, I think this is more than decades off. I have a CS degree and some AI training. AI has been a failure and I suspect that the human brain is not a Turing machine and our cognitive abilities in the areas of vision, language, and common sense reasoning can't be emulated by Turing machines (computers).
But the Pentagon loves to waste money on this kind of stuff. I'll worry about cybernetic killing machines when the following things come to pass:
Computers have reliable voice command interface that understands natural languages. In other words not a cheesy voice menu system.
A car drives itself on a busy freeways when given high level commands like go to a certain GPS coordinate. It needs to be able to plan its route and figure out when GPS coordinates can't be reached by any road.
I think you're right MH. It's my understanding this is an entirely theoretical study. My concern is that we even allow ourselves to think in this direction.
Of course there will be somebody who will figure out how to disable the ethics circuit.
But fear not. We only have to dress up like robots and we will fool them.
ZZ: "My concern is that we even allow ourselves to think in this direction."
That's a really good point, they are displaying really poor judgment on several levels.
The Stepford Soldiers.
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