It’s quite comforting to know that, even though the odds are good that I will one day be killed by a sentient machine, I am not the only one who is worried about it.
Category Archives: The Singularity
Holy Synthetic Balls
Schrubbe and I are the only ones that I know of who are legitimately concerned about the robot problem and AI, but this story kind of points to the rapid-growth potential for scientific advancement in this area.
Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years
Humankind is going to continue pushing the envelope of science for good or ill for as long as we’re around. We just have to hope and pray that the ethics and philosophy that surround these unimaginable developments keep pace.
Operation: Annihilate!
More substantive post to come later in the day, but check out what those zany Canucks are doing with computers and checkers. Most interesting excerpt to me: What we’ve done is show that you can take nontrivial problems, very large problems, and you can do the same kind of reasoning with perfection. There is no error in the Chinook result. … Every decision point is 100 percent.
Yes, I had a friend named HAL a few years back that made a similar assertion. Now just combine Chinook with a taser-wielding robo-cop, and you will get a perfect enforcement machine that KNOWS the correct decision, 100% of the time, is to Kill All Humans.
When Are They Installing the STAR TREK Doors?
More evidence that we live in the future.
No Big Deal?
I’ll give you a deal. In the face.
Blurring the Lines Between Friend and Foe, Man and Machine
Another article courtesy Dave Schrubbe:
Bots on the Ground, from the Washington Post.
I wonder if the robot army commanders of the future will chuckle at throwing a “bag of meat” on the land mines…
OH FUCK or: This Is How the Robots Will Learn to Read Your Thoughts
Quite seriously– this is a problem.
Modified Headlines
from the AP:
iRobot to Sell “Kill All Humans” Pool Cleaner Device
When They Come to Understand Ethics, Someone Will Have to Answer
Got a link to a story from the BBC yesterday via Dave Schrubbe:
“The ethical dilemmas of robotics”.
Interesting stuff.
Have a good weekend.