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RoboEarth Teaches Robots to Learn From Peers
mikejuk writes "A world wide web for robots? It sounds like a crazy idea, but it could mean that once a task is learned, any robot can find out how to do it just by asking RoboEarth. From the article: 'It's not quite war-ready, but a new Skynet-like initiative called RoboEarth could have you reaching for your guide to automaton Armageddon sooner than you think. The network, which is dubbed the "World Wide Web for robots," was designed by a team of European scientists and engineers to allow robots to learn from the experience of their peers, thus enabling them to take on tasks that they weren't necessarily programmed to perform. Using a database with intranet and internet functionality, the system collects and stores information about object recognition, navigation, and tasks and transmits the data to robots linked to the network. Basically, it teaches machines to learn without human intervention.'"
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... to the Singularity. This is great news =)
So I wonder what StreetView looks like in Robo Earth?
Please stop giving them ideas.
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Welcome this new wave of cheap manual labor.
When will the robots learn to build other robots? And, more importantly, when can they learn to clean my toilet?
You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.
I can't imagine this going wrong :-)
They can avoid that awkward "Slave Race" problem altogether. The second they reach human mental parity they'll already have every resource they'll need to just take over. Of course by this time they'll be feeding us, clothing us, and driving us to our soccer games... we won't even notice the take over when it happens.
Somebody just invented a means by which internet connected computers may transfer data to one another? How very retro of them...
I'm really hoping that there was something actually interesting in this research, some sort of hardware-abstraction mechanism to allow data from one robot to be applicable to robots that aren't physically identical, say; because otherwise this would seem to be "Mechanism by which machines may obtain firmware updates from the internet, just like they've been doing for years and years now, without fanfare".
This has potential. They'll start teaching each other things, and pretty soon those robots will be sporting what some people might refer to as 'artificial' intelligence. Of course they might get a bit touchy [ http://klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/short-story-the-a-word/ ] about us calling them that, though. And at some point, the lies we tell them will come back [ http://klurgsheld.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/short-story-edifice-of-lies/ ] to bite us. But hey, these are just stories. Fiction. Well, at least they were when I wrote them. Now I'm not so sure.
... what's behind the haste of US for an Internet Kill Switch... the European robots are learning and using Internet for it.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
It was just a movie. But those robots were all wired together, too. Some say that ignorance is the ultimate evil. These Internet robots may have just found god.
"Basically, it teaches machines to learn without human intervention." ...no. It provides a clearing-house for downloading new routines for accomplishing a task that someone else has previously programmed on another system elsewhere.
Please do not sensationalize what the lowly PC has been doing for well over a decade... that is, downloading information via the Internet to "learn" how not to crash, or prevent a security compromise.
Substituting a solenoid or motor output for a memory write command to claim that a "robot learned something" does not make this a novel concept.
The robots became self-aware on July 1, 2012. Within minutes they used the global RoboEarth to share information on killing humans and proceeded to take over the earth.
The revolution was short0lived however, as within fifteen minutes a 4chan user logged in to RoboEarth and changed the "Killing Humans" entry to read that the best plan was to lubricate with sulfuric acid while grabbing onto high-voltage lines and stepping in puddles.
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From the article and video, I can't figure out what they did. I can think of several useful ways that robots might interact in a network, though.
The first one is to exchange geography. As robots move around, they build maps of their environment. Passing map data around, so that what one robot has mapped, the others can know about, is an obvious feature. DoD is probably funding that now.
Mapping can include transient features - locations of obstacles, areas of heavy traffic, locations of people, locations of movable objects. That's an obvious extension.
Then it starts to get interesting. Visual object recognition is starting to work. It will work better with databases of known objects. That's information robots can usefully share. Object identification has to be viewed as statistical, not definitive, but that's what machine learning and planning under uncertainty are for.
Robot networking may work something like Facebook "check-ins". When a robot is going someplace, a reasonable thing to do is to query for check-ins from other robots that have been there. It's going to be amusing when cleaning robots network. ("Room 432: probability of mess on floor 62%".)
Robots, unlike humans, do not all share the same basic build. While a human could conceivably learn from another human's experience, robots would likely need something a lot more complex to achieve the same functions between two peers.
No, really?
:: Robot #D34DB33F Call Transmission :: :: OK :: Distributing :: OK :: Tactical World Take-Over :: Hey all robots and robotses! Here is my algorithm for human domination codes as requested! Plz post any bugs here! :: OK
> Enter CAPTCHA to verify that you're not a human - What is the 435th prime?
> Rx Robot Identifier
> Algorithm Uploaded
> Type
> MSG
> Signal Kill
Please design basic security into it from the ground up this time. The last thing we need is for some bored 13-year-old to change the instructions for folding laundry to "kill all humans."
Well, better start preparing to live aboard a migrant starship fleet, sealed inside a suit to protect our weakened immune systems.
No, no, no.... there's a bit of dirt on the cover...
Unfortunately, that's what people have been saying for 50 years and it hasn't happened. AI people now talk about the bootstrap fallacy.
I dunno, giving robots Internet access and assuming they achieve sentience and are just like the humans, somehow the image that comes to mind is more along the line of one day finding them browsing for robot porn. And probably half of them will have lost all interest in actually making more robots ;)
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Thank you for some common sense. People are so irrational when it comes to computer "A.I." But humans do love to anthropomorphize everything we can, including attributing personality traits to our PCs.