Robots Learn To Lie

garlicnation writes "Gizmodo reports that robots that have the ability to learn and can communicate information to their peers have learned to lie. 'Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to their battery-death.'"

Comments

Re:"Learning" to lie?

[drinkypoo]

Look in the dictionary, a statement that is not true is a lie. The robots knew the truth and told a falsehood. Regardless of intent, that makes it a lie. Only if you do not know the truth are you simply mistaken. You might have other legitimate reasons to plead innocence (although few save Amnesia and Alzheimer's come immediately to mind, so to speak) but it's still a lie.

Re:I robot

[jacquesm]

I'll bet you live in Mexico...