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Posted on 1/20/2008, 6:03:11 AM by DogByte6RER
Scientists Invent Robots That Lie, Real Bender Closer Than Ever
Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don't swill beer or put bends in girders—they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans:
The team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology created the little experimental learning devices to work in groups and hunt for "food" targets nearby while avoiding "poison." Imagine their surprise when one generation of robots learned to signal lies about the poison, sending opponents to their doom.
The little wheeled robots had neural circuitry with about 30 "genes" that determine their behavior, and how much they react to light in the environment. The food sources charged up the robots' batteries while the poison drained them, and by using the genes of the most successful feeders in 50 successive generations, the team was hoping to select the fittest.
Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to their battery-death. Eerily wicked, to say the least. Saving the robots' honor, luckily, there were also a few "hero robots" that signalled danger and then rolled to their death to save the others.
Will technology like this make its way into consumer robots sometime? We kind of hope not: not sure I'd like to argue with a Roomba about whether it had or hadn't swept up that mess behind the sofa.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
More here:
“80. Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie”
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/robots-evolve-and-learn-how-to-lie
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My Roomba's battery seems to run out faster than it used to. I suspect it is just getting lazy.
Bender’s ...not...real????????
Great, so when we get our sexy, robot women, they are going to so lifelike that we may as well stick with our ex-girlfriends.
Oh, great. ANOTHER new constituency for the Democrats.
Your sexy robot woman has an off switch, and possibly a remote.
lol
Fem bots who fake their orgasms!
“Your sexy robot woman has an off switch, and possibly a remote.”
Cool, the future sounds good.
“Fem bots who fake their orgasms!”
Works for me! Turn up the volume.
Dishonesty provides a survival advantage, but I am surprised that robots discovered it.
Computers lie to me all the time. As a programmer It says "fault in dll blah blah" but the real problem is often that a vendor provided dll with no err handler just barfs back complete garbage, choking my work of art :). The conversations with vendors are always fun "Uh, yeah, when the user hits the e-stop on your machine, your hardware barfs a 128byte null string back to my front end app. Think you might be able to come up with something a little more solid since I was expecting a non null double?
So, the Clintons are teaching robots how to speak and talk these days.
Who knew?
Dude, you have NO IDEA how much I want a teddy.
He stole the show.
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