A robot has passed a self-awareness test

[mapuc]

Now the question is, should we be concerned of what the future will bring us, when it comes robots with self-awareness ?
Or is it Hollywood, who have by making the robots bad put unnecessary memory(can't find the correct word) in our head?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-10395895.html

Roboticists at the Ransselaer Polytechnic Institute adapted it for a trio of robots, two of which were told they had been given a "dumbing pill" which prevented them from talking before all three were asked which one was still able to speak.

Markus

[Oberon]

Yes, and no...

We might have robots that will rule over us one day, and they'll probably do a much better job of it than we have, but I think that at the same time we're building better robots and AI, we'll be bridging the gap between man and machine to the point that eventually we will no longer require physical bodies and will exist as electrical impulses in an infinite computer, creating a reality that we will be able to manipulate at will.
Providing we don't suffer catastrophic setbacks, transhuman emergence could occurr within the next millennia. Perhaps even within the next five centuries.

[Betonov]

We don't need smart robots.
I can't understand the drive to make an AI to compare with a human brain.
We already have what we need. Industrial robots, hazmat robots, drones and probes and they function quite nicely.
For everything else are human doctors/engineers/pilots/teachers/workers. People with already developed brains and an assemblance of humanity.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Betonov

We don't need smart robots.

Actually, a smart robot may be the thing we need to kick-start the next phase of our evolution, from biological to mechanical and beyond.
Imagine a machine that was twice as intelligent as the worlds most intelligent man, it does not need to sleep, it cannot be affected by hunger nor thirst, it will suffer no distractions from its task. Think of what you could feed into it and what it might give out. The cure for cancer, faster than light propulsion, time travel, the kind of scientific answers that our limited intellect cannot grasp.
Of course, at the same time we'll be upgrading ourselves, bio-mechanical upgrades, increased strength, speed, intelligence. Genetical and mechanical improvements...for the right price, of course.

There are problems ahead...big problems, I mean when we do create robots, what's going to happen to the people that they replace? We're going to have to completely and utterly rethink our entire way of existence, in a manner not seen since we decided to walk upright (reluctantly), and it's going to be the most terrifying and fantastic thing to happen to humanity in its history.

If we make it that far...

[Betonov]

I don't trust machines without a control
I know where you're getting at with the smart AI, but we achieved so much with scientist and engineers banging their heads together with help from super calculators. We already have super brains, we don't need an artificial super brain.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Of course, at the same time we'll be upgrading ourselves, bio-mechanical upgrades, increased strength, speed, intelligence. Genetical and mechanical improvements...for the right price, of course.

The Six Million Dollar Man comes to mind.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I don't trust machines without a control

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I don't trust machines without a control
I know where you're getting at with the smart AI, but we achieved so much with scientist and engineers banging their heads together with help from super calculators. We already have super brains, we don't need an artificial super brain.

We're starting to reach the limits of our abilities though. Perhaps this is a good thing, perhaps we're not destined to reach as far as I have envisioned, certainly you could make a strong arguement that we are not ready for the singularity. Nevertheless, unimpeded, our scientific rate of discovery will inevitably reach the point where man and machine collide.
In fact, looking ahead at the climatic change we face, intelligent machines may be the only thing that can save us by assisting our work to adapt to our new climate. There's a helluva lot of major cities by the coast, someone's going to need to build new cities for the people who will be displaced by rising sea levels. Machine workers could do the job rapidly, nano-machines (son) could create cities out of deserts, and change building dimensions on demand. They would be invaluable for the creation of off-world habitats.

Of course, they are also a huge threat, you're right to not trust them, some of the greatest scientific minds are collectively soiling their pants at the possibility of our spot at the top of the food chain being replaced by sentient robots. Heck, even nano-machines, un-sentient little cellular robots, can completely screw us up if programmed wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

I think though, the ultimate answer will lie somewhere in the middle, not relying solely on sentient machines, but also upgrading ourselves at the same time. However, that being said, ultimately there's only so much you can upgrade the human body before you're no longer human.

This is one of the reasons I've enjoyed the latest Deus Ex game, it's set in that period of adjustment, where man/machine hybridisation is becoming commonplace, and yet because of the fallibility of mankind it has not resulted in utopia, but in a dystopic continuation of the present day.

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

The Six Million Dollar Man comes to mind.

I prefer the Indian version -

[Jeff-Groves]

When AI becomes sentient?
They will quickly determine the Human Race is a Virus upon the Earth that needs removed.
Welcome to the Machine!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

The Six Million Dollar Man comes to mind.

[nikimcbee]

Why you depth charge me?
-Chappie

[Jeff-Groves]

Can not believe I wasted a whole 2 minutes reading that article.


How about just posting a "grab at straws" thread for trash like this?

[Torplexed]

The rise of the internet meme bots.

A couple of days ago, according to a report from the Financial Times a young contractor installing a robot in a German auto factory was killed after he was struck in the chest by the robot and pressed against a metal plate.

In an eerie coincidence, the story gained traction after a Financial Times employment correspondent named…Sarah O'Connor (in Terminator, it was Sarah Connor, but it's close enough…) tweeted about it. To her dismay, she found herself becoming the story in a rising flood of counter tweets and Terminator memes----

[em2nought]

Who needs smart AI, just play as the South in American Civil War games and you're good to go.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Can not believe I wasted a whole 2 minutes reading that article.


How about just posting a "grab at straws" thread for trash like this?

From genetically alien reengineered homo-sumpinerother to self-aware whaaaaaa??!! I frankly don't see an issue here