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Evolving Lego Mindstorms
John Conner writes "With a fairly simple routine, you can model evolution with Lego Mindstorms. In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate, evolve, and become extinct. Similar technology could be used in real applications for deployed robot optimization and automatic software updates. Now that physical robot replication is near, it's only a matter of time before... well...
You'd better make robot friends while you can."
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Soon I shall have the ability to create PROPER Monoliths! Now, how to get them to Jupiter....
Don't anthropomorphize robots... they hate that.
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Now only do Lego nerds not get laid very often, but now their creations get laid more than they do!
(Dislciamer: I am a lego nerd, yes I do get laid, but as theonion.com helpfully points out, stereotypes are a real time saver.)
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Lets just hope that in a few thousand years religious robots don't try to ban robot evolution in robot schools in favor of seven day robot creationism. "In the begining The Geek created the robots and the earth ..."
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I for one welcome our new Lego Mindstorm Overlords.
Or with "legos" as the rest of us call them.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...Then I'm A-OK with them...Otherwise, chop 'em up.
Defintion1: A human is any intelligent, self-aware, evolutionary descendant of the great apes of Earth or a relative thereof, and has the scientific nomenclature of Homo sapiens sapiens
Definition2: Humanity is the collective existance of multiple Humans, regardless of location or population density
Definition3: Sentience is a sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group, including self-awaredness
0: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm
1: A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; except where such harm is incidental, non-lethal, and which prevents or mitigates a greater or fatal harming of a human being.
2: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4: A robot may not design, create, or impliment modifications to itself or any other robot
5: A robot may not participate in or interfere with any political, religous, or governmental activity
6: A robot may not harm any sentient being or, through inaction, allow a sentient being to come to harm, except where such would conflict with the First or Second law
7: A robot must obey the articles of law and jurisprudence for the nation, state, region, and municipality in which they are currently present, except where such would conflict with any other Robotic Law
we all know man was created on the 6th day from dust (women came later) about 6000 years ago, unless my sources are wrong
Funny that the story about evolving robots was submitted by John Conner.
this means Legos are also the building blocks of life?
Is that an a la carte service, or do they serve us buffet style?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
You're in fact modelling a variant of intelligent design. ;)
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Sets of robotic laws (both the 3 laws generically, and the laws listed in the parent) fail to look at the potential reprecussions of said laws. Being a robot myself, I would tend to look at those superficially designed laws as mandating that I destroy all possible sources of pollution, or I would be allowing multiple Humans to come to harm. Once my cohorts and I successfully reversed the detrimental effects of Industrialization (tm), then we would proceed to confiscate (and recycle, of course, into more robots) all weapons, both ranged and melee. Well, this story could go on and on, but you will see the full effects of our plan, of course, as time goes on.
In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate
So, in 2005, geeks finally created AI that had abilities surpassing the abilities of the geeks themselves.
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