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Neural Networks-Equipped Robots Evolve the Ability To Deceive

Posted by timothy on from the I-never-blinked-that dept.

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."

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  1. Mhm by alexborges · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Mhm by netruner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wasn't there also a story a while back about robots fueled by biomass? This was twisted to mean "human eating" and we all laughed.

      Combine that with what you said and we could have a certified evil, lying and flesh eating robot - What could possibly go wrong indeed.....

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  2. The next step is clearly... by billlava · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:The next step is clearly... by julesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!

      It's something that hollywood robots have never learned.

      Next thing you'll be saying that terrorists have learned that having a digital readout of the time left before their bombs detonate can work against them...

  3. Re:Deception is not always evil. by Flea+of+Pain · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  4. Soon they will realize by gubers33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That if they kill the humans they will have nothing stopping them from getting more food.

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  5. decepticon by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have a light, which at first flickers randomly; they learn to turn the light off so that other robots can't tell where they are. To my mind that's not really sophisticated enough to qualify as "deceptive".

    Yeah. It's more like the robots are hiding from each other. You could, in fact, describe them as "robots in disguise".

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  6. Re:Mis-Leading by ashtophoenix · · Score: 5, Funny

    who's to say we aren't all very evolved GA's ?

    The Creationists!

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  7. Re:HAL runs for Congress by jd2112 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nonsense, How can a computer have an extramarital affair.

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