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Robots Taught to Deceive
An anonymous reader found a story that starts "'We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered,' said Ronald Arkin, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing."
Who ever said our robot overloads would be truthful?
I thought robots already taught themselves to lie to each other... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/185259/Neural-Networks-Equipped-Robots-Evolve-the-Ability-To-Deceive
That they are. Cats can be pretty smart, too. I got home one day from work and barely opened the door to reach inside and grab the mail box key. I was pretty sure I heard a thump from around the corner of the door, which is where the sink is at. Figuring it was one of our cats jumping down from the sink, which they know they are not allowed to stand on, I didn't bother dealing with it right then. But when I got back from the mailbox and stepped inside, one of the cats was standing by the door, as she usually does when I get home, and a though occurred to me. I stepped over to the sink and sniffed it, and immediately looked at the cat. She lowered herself to the floor and ran like hell out of the room, sliding all over the linoleum the whole way! I've yet to see her up there since, not that that means she hasn't been up there, of course.
How about: Robots PROGRAMMED to deceive
Let's not get carried away with our emotional attachments to a machine.