Regulate armed robots before it's too late »
Posted By berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyIn the next decades, completely autonomous robots might be involved in many military, policing, transport and even caring roles. What if they malfunction? What if a programming glitch makes them kill, electrocute, demolish, drown and explode, or fail at the crucial moment? Whose insurance will pay for damage to furniture, other traffic or the baby, when things go wrong? The software company, the manufacturer, the owner?
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berkeley9 months, 2 weeks ago
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how many of us know isaac asimov's three laws of robotics?
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if not, read on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotic...
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 1 week ago
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Asimov was imaginative, and scientificaly literate;
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but he wasn't a programmer.
He thought of robots as clockwork people.
Any machine that can think as well as a man,
will be able to think outside the box programmed for it by men.
And what about Dune's grand rule:
Thou shalt not make a machine in man's image .
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CHAM9 months, 1 week ago
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Excellent Post Berkley. Although little mention is made here so far about the subject of the article, it is a very important one.
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But before I start, during my Freshman English at College, I ran into the English teacher from hell. After a lengthy speech about great writers to her first class of the semester, she asked us if she had left out any of the great writers. I being full of it raised my hand and said "You forgot Issac Asimov", She looked puzzled and said "I don't think I've ever heard of an author name Asimov, what did he write". I replied that he wrote Science Fiction. The class roared. She said that well he really couldn't be a great writer if he writes Science Fiction. Rather than keep my mouth shut, I told her that she really needed to get a better education. The class really roared. That became the only class I ever failed. Had to repeat it under another teacher to get my A.
Robots are in play and they take the cruelty of war out of the sight of the combatants. Civilians are always to be the losers.
The Predator is flown by a joystick operator in the US while killing anything chosen by the operator. Hellfire missiles used on the predator have a large kill radius and are extremely detrimental to anyone in the vicinity.
Tanks are also available as remote control vehicles along with many other war weapons. There is a danger to becoming too dependent on these robots. Since they must be directed remotely, that communication goes thru satellites. An enemy, notice China recently blew out of orbit a communication satellite. A Nation that can defeat the satellite will hamper communications severely. And this is what the high Tech nation will do, interrupt the communications with our robots. What is they can override the program and turn them on us? Yes it is possible. Robots are a two edged sword as warriors.
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