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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. Re:Define deception? by odin84gk · · Score: 5, Informative
    Old news. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/robots-evolve-and-learn-how-to-lie

    These robots would signal other robots that poison was food, would watch the other robots come and die, then move away.