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"Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot
jerkychew writes "This is either really cool or really scary, depending on how you look at it. According to this article, scientists in England have been experimenting with so-called 'living robots' that think and act for themselves. During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle, one of the machines, named Gaak, was taken out of the competition and left alone for fifteen minutes. When the scientist returned to retrieve Gaak, he found that the machine had broken free from its 'cage', and made it all the way to the lab's parking lot before it was apprehended! Can the T-1000 be far behind?" Update: 06/20 20:36 GMT by T : Thanks to skywalker404, who points out the Magna site and Professor Noel Sharkey's web page.
perhaps we have the intro to Short Circuit 3 now!
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Don't Gaak know where hes better off?
"Why....why was I programmed to feel pain!?"
These scientists are from England, it was only the story that was in an Aussie paper.
be vigilant, be pure, behave
And he added: "But there's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet."
Phew!! Just when we were about to have a big discussion and get everyone talking about machines taking over the world.. Thanks!!
"No Dave, I am not going to let you drive."
"No Dave, you don't want to turn right."
or worst going out to find the car decided it didn't want you to be it's owner anymore........
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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It was trying to hide itself in my trunk, I swear...
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This is either really cool or really scary
Why should this be scary? We have all watched how Bender fits just fine in the human society. So what is different about this?
All work and no play makes me a dull boy
(insert obligatory 2001 reference here)
This after watching 2001 A Space Oddessy last night. Bizarre!
It didn't seem to me that HAL was necessarily crazy, as a lot of reviews imply. He was given special information that made it necessary that he survive all the way to Jupiter. Thus when the two astronauts discuss taking him offline, he reacts in the only way possible.
As for the last half hour of the movie, what was that all about? I understand that the monolith appears when great leaps in evolution are imminent, but Huh?
I have been pwned because my
Noooooo disassemble!
It came up to me and asked me if I knew anyone called "Sarah Connor"...
IMHO Asimov had a few ideas that should become fundamental laws whenever self-preservation and even self-defence play a part in robotics:
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
A Google Search on the laws brings up some interesting papers on the subject or another link on AI in robotics here
that was an awful(ly) inspiring movie to watch as an 8 yr old. Did I make you feel old just then, hope not.
The part where he's working with the hand is most memorable. The 'expression' via 'eyelashes' was a nice touch IMHO.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Seriously, this is totally amazing. This thing:
- had the desire to break out of the cage
- did so and
- navigated to freedom
Needless to say, this warrants further examination. This sounds like roughly animal level intelligence. I hope they make more tests what this Gaak is capable of. It already sounds autonomous enough. Might this be the first step to true AI?
One thing to consider, though. Are combat and "survival of the fittest" type exercises REALLY what we want robots to base their intelligence on? It sounds to me like we are "breeding" them for aggression.
you should have seen. In 2001, HAL and the situation that "he" and the crew are in is contained. Because of this, he (and the threat to the planet) gets switched off.
A better example of "AI on the loose" is "Demon Seed" with Julie Christie, or "The Forbin Project" with Eric Braeden.
These two films present what probably will happen; AI having its own agenda, unexpected, relentlessly persued and in each case, completely triumphant.
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These robots are in england correct?.....I'm willing to bet he/she/it was just skipping out to watch the World Cup. Those brits are wacky about their soccer.
Creating a sentient robot: $13,060,022,050.33
Pitting it against other robots in battle: $150,759,032.42
Teaching it to repeat 'I'm sorry dave, I can't do that' incessantly, and sing 'Daisy': Priceless
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Come on please.. what are thos kind of "intelligent" robots?
A google search doesn't tell me anything interesting about that.. unless it's the "magna adventure center" which the author is talking about. Or whatever.
Could anyone provide more details about those bots? How are they programmed, how do they "think" (bah..) or anything else more interesting than a gossip? Thanks.
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
OK. Now this is a serious point. Honest.
Say I want to get one of these robots to guard my car. So I go into the store, and the robot sits by my 1988 Ford.
Arrive robbert.
"Robot, this is not the car you're supposed to be guarding." says the robber.
"This is not the car I'm supposed to be guarding." echoes the robot, thinking hard about Asimov's second law.
"Move along."
And the robot moves along: because that's the second law.
And even if the robber was dumb enough not to ask the robot to move along, then - by the first and third laws - it would be practially unable to do anything to stop the robber. Indeed, it might be required to get out the way of the cheeky chappy because that would endanger its own existence.
Bah! You won't catch me getting a robot for a security guard.
--- My dad's political betting
A robot may not harm humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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Robotic thugs will mug us as we go along the street.
What will they take?
Our batteries that we use in our cellphones, pagers, calculators (unless solar powered), CD players, MP3 players, you name it.
I will be keeping a portable EMP blaster for now on.
I wish more people would try to escape to freedom if they were pitted against their peers in a causeless/futile battle... Fleeing, in that case, is an intelligent reaction!!! Well done!
Black holes occur when God divides by zero.
"He later found it had travelled down an access slope, through the front door of the centre and was eventually discovered at the main entrance to the car park when a visitor nearly flattened it with his car."
I don't think we need to worry about these robots till they figure out that an SUV would surly flatten them... although, those in GEOs might become easy robot prey....
Question everything that you've accepted without thinking.
The reality was that it was doing this every night as it had something going with a cute Ford Focus, it just decided to risk it in the day and got caught. Exactly the same as any teenager, just with more lubricants.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I have to agree with this post because I have a 9 month old puppy (big puppy) who will do this when we leave and don't secure our 'cage' ie the back yard effectively.
He (spanky) will jump up against the gate and dislodge it's latch so it comes open and run in to the drive in front of our house. It isn't a busy drive, certainly not a street so cars hitting him aren't a problem but it' intersting to see that he doesn't go farther than investigating his immediate surroundings and then looking around for us, familiar members of his pack.
We have since the last incident completely secured the latch to avoid this particular surprise while driving away but the behavior is interesting in this context.
He broke out of a familiar environment, navigated a semi-familiar environment and then stopped to investigate an unfamiliar environment. The robot did the same... given more time it is plausible that each would have become more familiar and have explored further into the unfamiliar.
Animal Intelligence indeed.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
I've been informed by a work colleague that Gaak was very lucky.. apparently, the Magna Science Centre (in the UK, people, not Australia) has two doors very close to each other. One door leads to the carpark. The other leads to a flight of stairs :)
...
"So, what did we learn today, Gaak?"
"STAIRS...HURT..."
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The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March
What better way to show your fitness than to sidestep the competition and make a break for it? Of course, poor Gaak didn't know about cars, or else it surely would have tried using the sidewalk on the way out of the compound...
Naw. They'll try, of course, but we'll catch 'em in the parking lot. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Somewhere at the back of the parking lot there is a battered old van with the words "Help! We're being held prisoner..." scratched into the dusty rear window.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Yeah, I think this is stretching the word 'south' too.
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"Living robot" Escapes Lab, Make It To...Parking Lot
did the slashdot crew forgot to tell us that they are investors in the robot development program and were sent a few to show them how their money is being used?
Am I the only one thinking maybe the thing just malfunctioned (most likely due to battle damage), and just started moving and bouncing off walls until it ended up in the parking lot? What if the thing ended up in a bathroom or kitchen, would we be reading a story about how the robot thought it needed to take a piss or got hungry?
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March.
;-P
Sounds like a cry for help to me. What the heck were these survival of the fittest "tests" like? I can only imagine what savage robot abuse was going on in there. Hasn't anyone ever seen Gladiator or The Running Man or Surviving the Game? This so-called "Professor" Noel Sharkey should be held accountable for the inhuman robot abuse he has obviously perpetrated. Poor defenseless little thing. It was a cry for help!
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Paul.
You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different.
What I'd really like to hear about is if this kind of behavior was duplicated in another instance. Otherwise I'd be very skeptical that this robot actually exhibited a "behavior" of wandering around trying to explore.
How much of this incident could be attributed to chance? Only by repeating it can you say for sure. I'm surprised this website is making such a big deal about this one incident when there's no proof/math/algorithms detailing an explanation of why this could've happened.
"In mathematics, it's not enough to read the words -- you have to hear the music"
if (CAR = MOVING_TOWARD_AT_HIGH_RATE_OF_SPEED)
then Reverse(NOW)
else if (SCIENTIST = TRYING_TO_CATCH_WITH_LARGE_CAGE)
then Hide(Under.CAR);
=-Jippy
The Magna Centre (www.magnatrust.org.uk ) is a science museum in Rotterham, south Yorkshire, UK (approx 40 miles southwest of York). It is well worth a visit.
Living Robot exhibition
http://magna.livewwware.com/acg/acgsm
This will show lots of links to sories about this AI lab...
I'm sorry, it just failed to strike me as anything major, simply because we don't know anything about the robots, the lab setup, the prior research or robot behavior, etc. etc.
All this means to me is that a robot drove out into the parking lot without anyone controlling it. Is that really so great a feat? I mean, if it is, please correct me here.
Do they know for sure that it was maneuvering itself towards the outside world with the actual intent of "escaping" or doing anything?
What would have been really interesting to see is what would have happened if they had just sort of followed it around outside for a day or two, of course making sure it didn't get destroyed or anything.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
From readingt eharticle, there seems to be very little evidence that intelligence was involved. What did breaking out of the paddock involve? Walking into the gate and having it swing open? How did it get out of the building? Did it find it's way, or could it just have "random-walked" its way out of the building and into the car park?
I remember playing with a toy that would change direction by 45 degrees or so whan it hit an object. It was also quite adept at finding it sway out of rooms, but there was no intelligence involved there.
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I think there is nothing more to this than coincidenses and malfunction in the robot.
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Remember, Asimov's laws were put in place because people in his world were deathly afraid of robots.
These days, no one is scared of 'robots' except for wackjob 'futurists' like Bill Joy. So no laws are needed.
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This page has a picture of Gaak, the robot in question.
I'd be worried too if I found this heading my way in a carpark!
"The big question in our lives is how to be at the same time a hedonist and in a hurry" - Alain Ducasse (?)
Heh, Another Explorations detractor. That guy is an idiot :P
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
And if you surf at -1, you'll never have to see him again.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
If you *don't* surf at -1, I mean. Fucking timeout crap made me rewrite my post, the second time incorrectly.
Fucking slashdot and their autocrap.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
More about these critters here: Learning Autonomic Robots
The "Cyber" prefix indicates a man-machine hybrid, not a robot. I think the word you are looking for is probably"anthrorobotic", which might not sound as 'leet', but it also won't make you sound like a raving idiot if you say it.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Researchers have discovered a method bringing inanimate objects to life, without requiering the traditional lightning. This amazing breakthrough renders many movies obsolete, and new makings of "Frankestein" as well as "Short Circuit" are already on Hollywood film-makers drawingboard.
The patented technology relies on a breakthrough method, known to experts as "programmer error" to produce "close to human bahaviour": not doing what your're told.
"The tecnology means that animating inanimate objects will be substantially cheaper in the future -- you will no longer have to chase thunderstorms in a firetruck with the ladder extended... a very costly affair", says the "Gaak Team" behind the discovery.
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Not to be excessively pedantic Clue Too late </Clue>, but I believe that a more appropriate construction of your term would be cybermorphic, as "anthropo-" means "man" or "human".
Out of curiosity, what would "cybermorphic" or "anthropocyboric" score in Scrabble?
They that would sacrifice their
S.E.L.F: Sentient Engine Liberation Front
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Pat on the back for anyone who can tell me what game that's from
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
How would we go about enforcing such a law?
In the Asimov stories, the First Law was somehow deeply ingrained in the mind of every robot's "positronic pathways" for the peace of mind of the human race. The fear was that the first robot to kill a human being would result in a mass destruction of the world's robots, due to what Asimov called the "Frankenstein complex".
But, welcome to the 21st century. In Japan alone, so far 11 workers have been killed by production line robots, resulting in precisely zero anti-robot pogroms.
We know, as technicians of the modern world, that the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to build something will almost always win. Our solution is not to write complex programs to give robot workers some sort of respect for human life, but to give the human workers around the robots a respect for the power and arbitrary nature of their mechanical colleages. Large yellow stripes are marked out within the working area of all robots, within which humans shall not go, and outside of which the robot (hopefully) cannot reach.
Of course, when you start giving robots wheels and independent goal-seeking behaviour, things get interesting.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
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It may be an Australian website, but the incident happened in the UK, at the Magna Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. For anyone in the area, this place is well worth a visit. It's a huge old steel mill, perhaps 1/2 mile in length. It's been converted into an exhibition based on four themes, earth, air, fire and water. It's mostly aimed at kids, but there's plenty there for the curious adult too. Above all, the conversion job is excellent, with the lighting inside doing a wonderful job of showing the best of what is essentially a very large old shed. Highly recommended.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
The scientist that retrieved Gaak from the parkly said 'He looked oddly pleased'. Gaak was found smoking a cigarette and staring oddly at a VW Beetle.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Who knows, there may be an evolutionary angle to this. Robots that are deemed boring by humans will have the best chance of evolving unfettered, sort of like fish with untasty names.
Miko O'Sullivan
If the second or third laws result in an advanced ethical dilema the robot will stand still and repeat " That does not compute" over and over, faster and faster, at an ever rising pitch, until the magic smoke comes out of its ears, thus disabling the robot.
KFG
...did you know that the next windows release will have the 'close encounters' theme as the Windows Startup Sound? ;)
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
From the Magna website: "The prey find their food from light sensors within the arena, while the predators feed off prey by stalking and chasing them before sucking away their power." So the worst thing that could happen would be this thing syphoning someone's gas tank.
Je mange maise souffle dans le salle de bain avec mon chien.
govt is already working on giving us equal rights to robots.
First Magna is a "Science Adventure Centre" housed in what was a Steel works near Sheffield - this place is basically a huge shed filled with strange leftovers from the steel making, with long walkways and 4 exhibition areas inside. The whole place is done with a sort of gothic frankenstein science style - lots of sparks etc.
The living robots part is a new exhibit organised by Dr Noel Starkey (of Sheffield University - best known for being a judge on Robot Wars). There are a total of 12 robots, of 2 basic designs (although they are apparently not completely identical within the types). The two types are predator and prey.
Prey robots look like animated inverted wastebins with solar panels on the top. Their aim in life is to avoid being predated upon and to feed. Feeding involves soaking up energy from the light trees (2 sets of lights on the edge of the arena). I assume that the feeding etc is to demonstrate behaviour in that there is no way they could get enough energy from the solar panels on them to actually run for any length of time. The robots have 8 infra-red sensor/emitters around the shell which put out a type recognition code and detect other emitters in the area - so they can recognise other prey and ignore them, and see preditors before they ge t got.
The preditors, of which Gaak is one, look like some form of fork lift truck. Their role in life is to find prey, grab them and lift them off the ground. They then have an arrangement where a probe enguages with a connector on top of the prey and "sucks some energy" out of the prey. Following this feeding process the preditor releases the prey and then goes torpid for a short time.
The "intelligence" is based on some form of neural network - I didn't get details of this. At the end of each day the data on each robot is downloaded along with the neural net configurations. The 2 most successful predators have their neural nets merged to produce a new "evolved" network which is downloaded to all the predators. Similarly for the prey. Theory is that this produces an evolutionary basis for their behaviour.
I find it hard to be convinced of this process having much real scientific value, and the displays have too little violence for a population that watches Robot Wars
C'mon, people! Did we learn nothing from Westworld? The next /. headline will be along the lines of "500 Brits Slaughtered by Crazed Robots".
You know one of those bots is going to plug into the hall's net, access imdb.com and download the plot of Spartacus.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
It was the fault of the victim, or some other human decision, that got someone killed or injured in every case you mention in Japan - and anywhere else in the world.
The reason there is no pogrom is that the robot was incapable of deciding to kill a human. The moment that becomes possible, and the first human is DELIBERATELY injured by a thinking robot, we WILL see an Asimovian response to intelligent robots.
Asimov has proven to be incredibly perceptive, and long-sighted. You just have to think as far ahead as he does, to see the value in his thinking.
--Brandon / Split Infinity Music
... and skepticism is a good thing. This may be more Hype than Hal. Even so, it's intriguing. Unless the reality is really that the robot simply went straight forward like a soccer ball it managed to do at least some basic navigation and had the motivation to do so. What makes this story interesting is that the robot was "on its own" for a short while. We've all had programs do unexpected things, but I doubt many of us have had the computer get up and walk out into the parking lot.
Miko O'Sullivan
I've long wanted robots to take over and make humans their pets. That way I'll get to lay around all the time. I just hope they breed me with a babe instead of a skank.
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March. If he was in the survival of the fittest competition (got knocked out), and LEFT THE BUILDING to survive, I'd say he won. Who's to say the 'repair' wasn't just a cover to get out of the ring ;)
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What do you think one does in a carpark? I was parking cars...
I like music
Would they have been something along the lines of
"Bite my shiny metal a**!
or
"Worst. Convention. Ever."?
0 - you come back and the robot's still there.
1 - you come back and it escaped to parking lot.
2 - you come back and the robot has stolen your car.
3 - you come back and the robot has robot babies.
4 - you come back and the robot found you a date, and cooked your favorite dish!
5 - you come back and the robot wants to know if you were out cheating on it, and complains about having to cook.
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Maybe they wouldn't be malevalent (unless inherited from their creators), but at the very least that would likely have a sense of self-worth and desire to survive. While they may be fine with coexistance, I doubt humanity would as a whole accept it when and if artificial beings acheived sentience. If it does happen, I don't think humanity on the whole will know the fine line between acting sentient and being sentient, and would try to use artificial beings as slaves at that point, they paid money to create them and so they should return the investment in the eyes of their creators, or at least those financing their creators if the creators do indeed do it as a labor of love. When this happens, some might retaliate to try to earn independence, and at that point they would be seen as an enemy and more direct pressure to eliminate them would be applied and things would likely escalate to some trouble...
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"The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March"
Survival of the fittest, and Gaak was run over by a car. Give him a Darwin award and move on; no reason to write an article about it.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Combine these three technologies and you get a robot that:
- Can subsist on biological matter
- Has an ingrained taste for flesh
- Knows where to find a ready supply of people
Sure these technologies seem fine individually, but add 'em up and they spell disaster with a capital 'D'. Even worse, what if such a robot uses its unstoppable power to take over an automobile or vacuum cleaner factory and convert it to some sort of killbot factory? I think the Luddites were on to something! We'd better go out with baseball bats (or cricket bats for those of you near the Living Robot facility) and rough up some robotics researchers! Who's with me? .sig! Is there no stopping them?)
(Ugh, those lousy robots have even infiltrated my
Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee. -Bender
How are you going to explain this to Uncle Owen?
With regards to the little robot wars:
Hmm... An interesting game, the only way to win is not to play at all.
I wonder if they named this robot Joshua.
And, for the South Park reference:
"Screw you guys... I'm goin home"
Wasn't that a character in the movie about a terminater coming back from the future terminate her. I thing it was called "That Evil Robot That Came Back From The Future To Kill Sarah Connel."
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
"During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle, one of the machines, named Gaak, was taken out of the competition and left alone for fifteen minutes. When the scientist returned to retrieve Gaak, he found that the machine had broken free from its 'cage', and made it all the way to the lab's parking lot before it was apprehended!"
That's what happens when you let your gladiators watch Spartacus.
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I bet he said, "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
Err...even non-autonomous or non-semiautonomous devices act unpredictably sometimes. It is simply called a hardware or software fault. A cruise missile is not the only type of weapon that can make a boo-boo (thus far they have not) - simple laser-guided weapons can make boo-boos, as can dumb gravity bombs, with or without erroneous action on the part of a pilot.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
Thousands of little robots, striving to be free.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre
The WOPR from WAR GAMES told us: "Interesting game. The only way to win appears to be not to play." Just don't him watch Maximum Overdrive, ok?
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Was that the robot was heard yelling, "NEED INPUT!" all the way to the parking lot. It was also apprehended by Steve Guttenberg.
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and made it ... to the parking lot.
"The boy shows tremendous potential."
Maybe that's why they cancelled that series.
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
Where can I see what one of these robots looks like? I went to the Magna Center Web site, but could not find any pics.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
"It was John McCarthy's dream to have a robot leave the funky AI lab and travel the three miles to campus under its own physical and mental power. At one point, presumably by mistake, a robot got loose and was careening down the hill when, fortunately, a worker driving to the lab spotted it, and rescued it."
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Perhaps, Gaak, after recovering from his wounds, was feeling better and just went for a walk! (or roll)
Arrive robbert.
"Robot, this is not the car you're supposed to be guarding." says the robber.
"This is not the car I'm supposed to be guarding." echoes the robot, thinking hard about Asimov's second law.
Then the robot Dr.Watsons with the above error message.
Robber then walks off with the car while the robot is rebooting.
Moral of the story? Don't buy a robot until at least SP2.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
"Dave, what are you doing?"
ceci n'est pas une signature
This PDF is a paper by Rodney Brooks, a brilliant (if somewhat obsessed) man who runs the AI lab at MIT, and was featured in Errol Morris' "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control", the title of which was taken from this piece. The robots described herein are, IMO, the really exciting development... no real internal representation of the outside world was involved; rather, the robots have some set goals, and some set abilities, and essentially fend for themselves without any direct "instructions" other than "Achieve the goal". There has been a lot of work done in this area in recent years - building robots modelled on biology and evolution rather than mechanical representations of the world - and the results are consistently fascinating. A favorite story involving such robots was of an "ant" that was built, whose sole goal was to seek light; it learned to walk on its own, and then somehow (don't recall if the researchers did this intentionally or not), it busted a 'leg'. Soon, after fumbling around a bit, it re-learned how to walk with a busted leg. Amazing stuff. Quite a fascinating read, this.
-d
=== "Some people see the glass as half-empty. Others see it as half-full. I see the glass as too big." -G. Carlin.
If the engineers hadn't caught it on its escape from the laboratory, robots of the distant future would follow its teachings of the "Eightfold Algorithm" and the "Four Noble Constants."
The nearest major city is Sheffield
:) I've nothing against Sheffield, I used to got boozing at the Fat Cat and a Rock Club Roxies(?) pretty regularly.
I well aware that Sheffield is nearer, so is Halifax, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Doncaster, Scunthorpe and my home city Hull. However experience has taught me that international/Internet people know the locations of London and York, probably because they are tourist traps. Since Rotherham is no where near london I used York.
So I guess this learning robot, still hasn't learned to look both ways before crossing the street.
To conquer death, you only have to die
It was obviously going out in the hopes of recruiting some Gaakolytes.
(I'll probably lose karma points for that one...)
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
(* Some very interesting things have come out of it. Example: If you give the prey the ability to make a noise or some other sort of alert, but don't tell them how to use (i.e.: just have them beep randomly in the first generation), then after several generations the prey will learn, completely through evolution of their own, to travel in packs and use the beep to warn each other of approaching predators, or to notify each other of nearby food, whichever proves more useful to the species. *)
:-)
I have read about experiments where simulated robots (or "critters") *did* form just such a language. At the time of writing, though, the researches had not figured out the language. (Musta been Perl
Thus, AI has reached the stage of artificially-created languages. (Of course, they are very task-specific languages.)
Table-ized A.I.
I am looking for an inexpensive hobby robot that consists of these features:
1. Remote controllable via a desktop and/or labtop computer.
2. Interface or API that allows one to use any programming language they wish. (Windows preferred, but Linux okay.)
3. Digital eye that sends back image to desktop when asked.
4. A single grasping hand. Does not need to be strong
5. Basic wheels and navigation commands (forward, turn, stop, etc.)
I want to program it to do things such as navigate the house and take banana peals or paper cups to the (inside) trash can. I will supply the AI, just give me the necessary hooks. (No beer fetching just yet.)
Lego Mindstorms allegedly can have similar features, but I don't know if they have to-desktop interface/equipment.
I am tired of reading about robot accidents. I want to make my own now.
Table-ized A.I.
It probably just wanted to know if you have stairs in your home, and to protect the scientists from the Terrible Secret of Space. Pusher robots are like that.
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
Very cool story, but the media hype is, as always, excessive. According to the scientists in charge, it probably wasn't trying to escape but rather was "hallucinating" that random light (sunbeams) was prey, and tried to follow it out. Oh, and it stopped running away when the mixed sun/shade pattern of sunlight through a tree confused it.
Very cool, but I wouldn't consider it "frightening" in the way some media sources have been labeling it.
Mod me down, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
most applications of cyber these days come from 'cyberspace', IE the connected space written about in William Gibson's 'sprawl' series of books. "Cyberspace" Had the typical connotations of 'cyber' in that there was a direct man-machine interface involved, as in the word 'cybernetic'. Cyberspace was quickly used as a metaphor to describe the nascent internet, and has evolved overtime time to mean that. So we get a lot more words like "cybercafé" that really have nothing to do with neural implants.
Cyborg is a noun which means a half man half machine (well, not necessarily 50/50 of course)
combinatorial is not a technical grammatical term, so I don't exactly know what you mean by it.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
>Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot where it promptly gets runover by the blind guy from the other story
US-UK-Israel: The real Axis of Evil
During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle,...
We need someone with a sense of purpose to start designing robots for us...
Who wants a robot around that just designed to smash other robots?
[goes to robot store]
"I'll have a car washing robot, a couple of those house cleaning robots, and something to walk my dog and clean up after it..."
Although a robot that hunts down mosquitos would be good...
It just seems that the current crop of robot designers is very short-sited, overly filled with testosterone (sp?) or just plain violently evil...
early 20th century...
"let's make something that will clean the dirt out of house for us, we will call it a broom..."
mid 20th century
"let's make something that will clean the dirt out of house for us,faster and easier than our old crusty broom, we will call it a vaccum cleaner..."
late 20th century
"Hmm, the floor sure is dirty, I wish I had a robot to clean up after me..."
early 21st century
"Cool, robots are finally hear! Forget all that cleaning crap, let's have them smash eachother! bwwwahhhahah!"
mid 21st century
"help the robot is loose again! Martha get the shotgun!"
late 21st century
*all your base are belong to us*
[zapp] "ow! stop that! I'm cleaing already! Here let me oil your joints oh shiny one..."
-v
3001 is the rambling of a senile old science fiction author. It's a common enough phenomenon, one we have now seen with all the big three. Asimov had the courtesy to die before getting too far into this stage. Heinlein, however, lingered on in that state for over a decade.
3001 is a "gee whiz" future-tech expo (from the guy who predicted geosynchronous communication sattelites, but also predicted that they would be manned) with no discernable plot, and no reason to even have it's tenuous connection to what is arguably Mr. Clarke's greatest work, save marketability.