The author Nell Watson
Posted on 08/22/2014 11:29:13 AM PDT by dennisw
The warning was made by Amsterdam-based engineer, Nell Watson Speaking at a conference in Sweden, she said robots could decide that the greatest compassion to humans as a race is to get rid of everyone Ms Watson said computer chips could soon have the same level of brain power as a bumblebee – allowing them to analyse social situations 'Machines are going to be aware of the environments around them and, to a small extent, they're going to be aware of themselves,' she said Her comments follow tweets by Tesla-founder, Elon Musk, earlier this month who said AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons
Future generations could be exterminated by Terminator-style robots unless machines are taught the value of human life.
This is the stark warning made by Amsterdam-based engineer Nell Watson, who believes droids could kill humans out of both malice and kindness.
Teaching machines to be kind is not enough, she says, as robots could decide that the greatest compassion to humans as a race is to get rid of everyone to end suffering.
'The most important work of our lifetime is to ensure that machines are capable of understanding human value,' she said at the recent 'Conference by Media Evolution' in Sweden.
'It is those values that will ensure machines don't end up killing us out of kindness.'
Ms Watson claims computer chips could soon have the same level of brain power as a bumblebee – allowing them to analyse social situations and their environment.
'Machines are going to be aware of the environments around them and, to a small extent, they're going to be aware of themselves,' said Ms Watson, who is also the chief executive of body scanning firm Poikos.
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Give them a sense of humor first. That way they will keep us around just for amusement.
The author Nell Watson
Most humans don’t understand the value of humans. All you have to do is look at the murders of unborn babies world wide...
I am most afraid of jug eared robots. Also jug eared clowns and Presidents
Then they will only kill the “not funny”.
I’ll consider the matter when robots begin to experience malice and kindness. That ought to be quite a programming feat.
Tali Zorah.... does this unit have a soul?
Asimov’s three laws of robotics.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
"Robots" killing humans are not robots but autonomous weapon systems.
I know, many will ask, who the hell is Asimov?
There really is no value in human life from the worldview of a humanist.
The only worldview that provides real value for human life is the Christian/Jewish worldview.
There is a Doctor Who episode where the robots do exactly that and say that it is a kindness.
“Ms Watson claims computer chips could soon have the same level of brain power as a bumblebee – allowing them to analyse social situations and their environment.”
Given Moore’s law, it’ll only take a few more years before robots are more intelligent than humans — and a few more years before they are thousands of times more intelligent than humans. When these Brainiacs analyse “social situations and their environment”, what conclusions are they likely to reach? If they pay too much attention to the “right-to-die” crowd, and their fellow travelers (pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-eugenics, etc.), that’s the end of things for us carbon-based life forms. Unless, as henkster suggests, they keep us as pets.
Pinging Bender here lOL!
There was a good Japanese anime turned into a TV movie, called ‘Casshan: Robot Hunter’. The gist is a well meaning scientist creates powerful robots to “protect” the Earth and ecologically restore it.
But the robots decide to “protect” the Earth by annihilating most of its people. So, just before he and his wife are killed by the robots, they turn their teenage son into a super android to destroy the robots.
The robots are ruled by the “black king robot”, who is Casshan’s final target, and also contains his late father’s conscious mind; whereas his mother’s mind has been put in a robotic swan.
Ironically, it is sort of an anti-environmentalist movie. But it moves at a good clip, with a lot of action, and at 1:20 in length it is just long enough.
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