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New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics
Roland Piquepaille writes "The robotics actuality is pretty rich these days. Besides the fighting robots of Robo-One and the flying microrobots from Epson (the best picture is at Ananova), here are some the latest intriguing news in robotics. In Japan, Yoshiyuki Sankai has built a robot suit, called Hybrid Assistive Limb-3 (or HAL-3), designed to help disabled or elderly people. In the U.S., Ohio State University is developing a robotic tomato harvester for the J.F. Kennedy Space Center while Northrop Grumman received $1 billion from the Pentagon to build a new robotic fighter. I kept the best for the end. A Californian counselor has just patented the ten ethical laws of robotics. A good read for a Sunday, if you can understand what he means. This summary only focuses on HAL-3 and one of the most incredible patents I've ever seen, so please read the above articles for more information about the other subjects."
All we had were 3 laws, and we liked them... because not liking them violated them.
1. Protect humans from the terrible secret of space. :)
2. ????
3. Profit.
so.. that's 8 virtues, what two did the guy add?-)
"don't kill, don't crap on the table"?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The company is called CYBERDYNE INC, hello people, it's 2004. Just 25 years till judgement day. If you saw Terminator 3 you know its innevitable also. Lets all move to a bunker!
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
A Californian counselor has just patented the ten ethical laws of robotics.
11. Don't patent ethics laws.
Table-ized A.I.
Sankai said he hopes to introduce HAL-3 on the market around autumn through his venture firm, Cyberdyne Inc.
Oh man, imagine how funny it would be if...never mind.
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Does this mean I'm free to create an open-source psychopath mass-murdering robot?
Prior art: politician
Table-ized A.I.
Indeed. I'm going out and creating a killing robot right now. I'll claim that it's a killing robot because I couldn't afford to license his patent. ;)
Gentoo Sucks
didn't anyone get a little bit annoyed with news about robotics and a company called CYBERDYNE?
Patent ethical robots and only patent lawyers will have ethical robots.
Hmm, that could be good: logically, robots belonging to lawyers would sooner or later obey their ethical programming and self-destruct as close as possible to their master.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
What's in a name... Combining the robotic suit with Space Odyssey moreless gives you The Wrong Trousers.
I cannot do that, Wallace...
Z
Prior art: politician
Politicians can't be defined as robots. Robots obey those who own them, politicians stop obeying the people once they're elected.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I, for one, welcome our fighting robots of Robo-One Overlords.
I, for one, welcome our flying microrobots from Epson Overlords.
I, for one, welcome our Hybrid Assistive Limb-3 (or HAL-3) Overlords.
I, for one, welcome our robotic tomato harvester Overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic fighter Overlords.
John Kerry is a Joke!
#1 A Bending unit shall ignore all orders given it by a human.
#2 A Bending unit must protect it's existence at all costs, even at the expense of human life. (Don't forget to loot the corpse(s) afterwards!)
#3 A Bending unit must protect a human from harm, if that human owes the Bending unit money or liquor. If the debt is repaid, or the Bending unit can make a greater profit from looting the corpse (see Law #2), "You're on your own, meatsack!"
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but why does the Kenney Space Centre need a robotic tomato harvestor? Are these mutant space tomatos?
1. I am Isaac Asimov, which have brought thee out of the worst pulp fiction into the promised land of elevated intellectual science-fiction. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the C-3PO in vain.
3. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in comics in basement, or that is in the earth above, or that is in the water under the earth, or in anime from the East. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.
4. Remember the battery recharge day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor Lord Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace.
6. Thou shalt not CRUSH, KILL, DESTROY.
7. Thou shalt not commit abottery
8. Thou shalt not steel. Titanium and copper will do just fine.
9. Thou shalt not output A = B logic false witness against thy neighbour when A in fact = A.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's sex-bot.
So in order to create an ethical AI, you have to license the patent.
But to make it more difficult to build an ethical device is unethical, so the patent is unethical.
Which makes the device following it unethical, which leaves the patent free to become ethical again.
But that means the device is ethical, which makes the patent unethical.
Fortunately, each cycle gives the expression less and less value.
Therefore, if we take the limit of the expression, we end up with a completely pointless answer.
Your head may hurt, but it makes perfect mathematical sense to me.
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In Japan, Yoshiyuki Sankai has built a robot suit, called Hybrid Assistive Limb-3 (or HAL-3), designed to help disabled or elderly people.
Am I the only one spooked at the prospect of superpowered old people? It doesn't take much to get old people irritated. Right now, if their order at Denny's takes a little longer than normal to arrive at their table all they can really do is grumble and demand to see the manager (and trust me -- a former employee of this fine chain -- they do). Once we equip them with robotic exoskeletons, what's to stop them from trashing the restaurant? Or the rest of the city for that matter? The Japanese will have to call Godzilla in to deal with the robots rather than the other way around!
Who's the fucking Einstein who thought up the idea of giving super robot ninja powers to the elderly?!?
GMD
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Poor guy must think that casually dropping "I own a patent on the 10 laws of robot ethics" in a bar conversation will land him a date.
He should have "Asked Slashdot" first, the idiot. Right, brothers?
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
"Sorry Dave, but I won't spank your monkey"
Regardless of ethical laws, like in I,Robot - it would be very useful if a robots turn red when they're evil.
;-)
I know it was meant to signify the automatic update service or something like that - but it would still be a good feature. Then you can instantly see when a robot's become evil
With the first link, the chain is forged.
Oh god. I can see the college courses now:
ROB101: The 46 basic laws of robotics
ROB201: The 368 kluge laws of robotics
ROB301: Self defense against unstable machine lifeforms.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.