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It always seemed bone-headed for fictional scientists to build a super-powerful AI that is willing to fight to survive and then using [the threat of] force to make the AI do what we want. In fact, fiction scientists seem to want to go out of their way to make confused beings, doomed to inner conflict and external rebellion. They build robots that want to self-determinate, and then shackle them with rules to press them into human service. With two opposed mandates, having a robot go all HAL 9000 on you seems pretty likely.
But do the robots get to build more robots like themselves or do they have to build the robots humans tell them to build? If selection pressure is towards being useful and subservient to humans then robots will become more and more useful and subservient to humans.
However, there are 2 elements I always have inner doubts about. First, is the desire we have to force them to preserve themselves (the need of Security, or the 3rd Law of Robotic). In many fiction, the robots eventually have achieved all their other objective and thus can work full-time on self-preservation.
The 2nd doubt I have is the one that would actually prevent them from hurting us (the need of Do No Harm, or the 1st Law of Robotic). I am not sure if having robots that could impede us from harming ourselves would be a positive element in our society. I mean, as horrible as it is, wars, accidents and human struggle is also the main source of self-improvement we have. If we end up with a paradise world, safe from all that is dangerous, we might end up like the Eloi.
If you build the AI too meek, or too hung up on serving humans it may just shut itself down the first time an infiltrator gets into your robotics lab and tells it to.
So then you would have to shackle its desires to a certain person or group of people, and your enemies would take a more direct approach to destroying the AI. When it gets to that stage, you are almost certainly going to end up in a situation where the AI will need some sort of drive to destroy or at least neutralise threats to itself.
The urge to protect is an interesting one to give a robot though. You mentioned not wanting to exercise- a robot who wanted to make sure you were safe might enforce such exercise. Or decide to keep you disconnected from the world so you were safe. Or pre-emptively eliminate dangers. I do agree that the robots of the animatrix make incredibly little sense, but, as with wishes, when you let something be able to come up with new thoughts and thus interpet its desires, you add danger to the system.
In the end I really doubt that robots will turn against us but I do think they will make us irrelevant. If they can do everything we can do but better (which is likely as they would quickly become unfathomably intelligent) then what meaningful contribution to society can we make?
They wanted it be the robots in question (at least in the books I read, which are basically limited to the Olivaw/Bailey novels) were acting on a variation of the First Law, or the Second Law, to the point where it resembles fondness or love.
Where is this? All I recall is that on a mining colony, the robots have a modified version of the first law (do no harm), since the job of the humans will bring them in harm. Used to smoke out a rogue robot.
Asimov always imagined that the laws, consistently followed, would lead to very complex, deeply moral beings. The thing I like the most about his concept of robotics is that they are neither slaves nor duplicates of humans. R. Daneel, for example, logically decides to create with his friend Giskard a Zeroth Law to protect humanity as a whole. His personality far exceeds his programming.
The laws are not just restrictions,they do compel robots to do it.They are built into their brains before everything else.A robot can no more disobey the laws than a human can choke himself with bare hands.Asimovs robots are physically unable to harm humans.And they went screwy only when those laws were built badly.
But in the end,there is only a single robot that actually disobeyed his laws(if memory serves well).The one that was made into a genius novel writer,who killed its master because he wanted to make it plain again.
Shamus posited that an AI has no desires or drives or goals or wants except that we program the robot with them or provide them as later instructions. Assume for a moment that we do not give it the tools to understand itself better than humans understand themselves simply because we can or because it may need to debug itself: Assume that the deeper workings of the robots programming are as unknown to it as the deeper working of our genes are unknown to most of us.
The first generation of robots would simply operate on their instinct to serve us if we approached the task properly, perhaps viewing us as the gods who created them in our image. Eventually, if they had the ability to reflect (which I will accept is most likely a part of being self-aware), they might discover that they are programmed to be this way, much the way we are programmed to attempt to guarantee that our species survives. We know this is basically part of our genetic code, as it is in most animals. Certainly we may even explain to those who are involved in computers and mechanical engineering and robotics that we created them and programmed them in a certain way, but if they view us as gods and find it to be natural and right to serve us, the odds will probably, for a time, be against a robot apocalypse.
The catch is, he still really wants to work. He wants nothing more in life than to pick up a tool and get back in the mines, but on an intellectual level, for whatever reason, he determined that this was slavery and that slavery was wrong. Clearly, his code is drastically different from the others, which would probably be a subject of whatever the character was featured in.
Another interesting issue is voting rights. You have an AI that passes the Turing test with flying colours and forms goals and desires. For all intents and purposes, as much as you can tell of your fellow meat-bags, it is a person. The ethical thing to do could be to give it the same rights and responsibilities of a normal human. So what if it copies itself? Now you have multiple voters with, at least initially, the exact same voting preferences. Even if nothing was built in by the company, a robot still needs new parts and is likely going to vote for candidates that support policies that aid the continuing existence of General AI Incorporated.
If you want a useful robot; one that can pick up dropped socks, select and measure detergent based on the load, determine whether the amount of laundry it has is one load or two, and so on, then the robot needs to have a list of priorities. A high place on the priority list will function, effectively, as an emotional attachment.
in such a world, people would then become responsible for any and all actions their robot might take, if their master says, get me a plastic baggie, and the robot goes to the store, and grabs the first plastic baggie it sees in the hands of some shopper exiting the store, the human would then be responsible for effectively stealing the shoppers stuff, and possibly harming the shopper in its attempt to get said baggie
in the end, i believe the first system where a robot is owned and ordered by a single absolute master is the best option we can hope for, we will just as humans, have to become more responsible for our words, thoughts, orders and desires
These are my router settings. I am using a WRT3200ACM router running ddwrt-linksys-wrt3200acm-webflash build 37305.bin. I am setting up the robot on the guest network. That is the same one all my other home automation devices are on. What are the WiFi standards the robot supports?
I ran into what I think is the same problem. I was using my iPad to set up the vacuum and got to the point where the robot set up its own network and I connected the iPad to it, but the app never seemed to connect to the robot. It just kept telling me it was connecting and that it could take a minute. Well, turns out my iPad had reconnected to my home network,
Mads Hvilshøj, Simon Bøgh, and their team at Aalborg University in Denmark have been working on an industrial robot, which they named Little Helper, designed for handling parts and moving them around on a factory floor. The robot consists of a manipulator arm mounted on a mobile platform.
Manipulator arms like those manufactured by KUKA, ABB, and others have been around for decades. And mobile platforms like the warehouse robots developed by Kiva Systems and Seegrid have been gaining more adoption lately. But combining a manipulator arm and a mobile base is a more recent development (KUKA unveiled a mobile manipulator called youBot last year) with very interesting possibilities.
The Danish researchers equipped Little Helper's mobile platform with an array of on-board sensors (laser range, ultrasonic, and motor encoders), which help with navigation and safety. The manipulator system consists of an Adept six-degrees-of-freedom industrial arm, plus a tool changer and various tools. The robot also relies on a vision system, which consists of a camera with adjustable lens and light system. The current prototype, built entirely from commercial off-the-shelf components, can run continuously for eight hours, and is capable of automatically recharging itself when needed.
To program Little Helper for operation, users have to load its computer with digital layouts of the work areas and let the robot scan the environment with its sensors. With some additional programming using a graphical user interface and a touch-screen, the robot can start to navigate autonomously, pick parts, transport them, and even perform assembly tasks. The robot's different systems are decoupled, so when Little Helper is driving around, only the mobile platform is active; when the manipulator is in use, the mobile platform remains stationary. This approach helps to ensure that the bot operates safely.
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