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Neural Networks-Equipped Robots Evolve the Ability To Deceive
pdragon04 writes "Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have found that robots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find 'food' eventually learned to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. The results are detailed in a PNAS study published today."
I mean, yesterday, they built an certified evil robot. Today they made a lying one....
Cant tag it for some reason but... what could possibly go wrong?
NO SIG
A robot that learned not to flash lights that would give away the location of robot food to its competitors? The next step is clearly a robot that learns not to flash lights when it is about to wipe out humanity and take control of the world!
I for one welcome our intelligent light-eating bubble robot overlords.
Like a dog burying a bone... He's not doing it to be evil.
Unless he has shifty eyes...then you KNOW he's evil.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
robots that eat humans. humans are a renewable source of energy. then they can have a light that flashes (or the robot can choose not to flash it) when it eats a human!! best of both ideas!
and thus were politicians born...
That if they kill the humans they will have nothing stopping them from getting more food.
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
Yeah. It's more like the robots are hiding from each other. You could, in fact, describe them as "robots in disguise".
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Finally a computer AI program that can perform all the functions of a Congressman!
who's to say we aren't all very evolved GA's ?
The Creationists!
Life is about being a Phoenix!
You'll never know for sure.
They say repetition is good for a growing mind. They say repetition is good for a growing mind.
> I'd love to see the robots given hunger, thirst, and a sex drive. Make 1/2
> the robots girls with red LEDs and 1/2 the robots boys with blue LEDs. Make
> the food and water 'power', and give them the ability to 'harm' each other
> by draining power. The girls would have a higher resource requirement to
> reproduce. It'd be interesting to see over many generations what
> relationship patterns form between the same and opposite sex.
I can tell you:
First the girl robots would seductively blink their red LED's at the boy
robots.
The boys get all silly and start swarming around the girl trying to get close
to her.
The boy with the biggest hydraulics then gets the girl and they roll off into
some dark corner for playing with their cross-over cables and rolling around
swapping oil and stuff.
A few weeks later the girl robot will barf neon-green liquid all over the
place, especially in the mornings. While she'll get increasingly cozy among
lots of spare-parts the boy robot is frantically rolling around at 2am trying
to get some yummy special machine oil, all the while freaking out about how
his care-free life with his roboddies is now over.
A few months later the clatter of little wheels is heard and the now coupled
robots take countless pictures with their integrated cameras and send them via
infra-red to every other robot that was built on the same assembly-line. They
will not notice the deliberate Out-Of-Memory errors of the recipients.
So far so good, until eventually the two start chirping at each other about
the little things of robot-life. The woman will harp on the partner bot, why
she always has to wipe off the nasty-smelling exhaust-buildup's of junior,
that she has not seen a metal polisher in months to make herself shiny and how
she should have anyway listened to her Mom warning her not to get involved
with a guy with obviously inferior software.
The man robot, OTOH, will simply bypass the receiving sensory circuit and
refuse to send ACK packets, all the while playing robot wars with junior and
generally doing, what a robot must do to make a living.
Eventually they'll settle into their daily routine as the years go by. Despite
their outward differences they now wouldn't want to miss each other anymore as
their hinges start squeaking, rust appears and the last firmware update is but
a distant memory. But as they prepare for being disassembled Junior...now all
flashy with his LED's...rolls out into the world to link up with a girl of his
own and start it all again...
The EOF