Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans

aurtherdent2000 writes "We humans enjoy not having knives inside of us. Robots don't know this (Three Laws be damned). Therefore, it's important for humans to explain this information to robots using careful training. Researchers at Cornell University are developing a co-active learning method, where humans can correct a robot's motions, showing it how to properly use objects such as knives. They use it for a robot performing grocery checkout tasks."

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Delusional much?

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Robots will do what ever they are programmed to do. Programming them to recognize that stabbing someone is wrong is no different than programming them to claim stabbing is right. Simply change a 0 to a 1.

The same can be said for any act of harm mind you, not just using a knife. Smarter people than me have warned about things you should never try and teach in artificial intelligence (hinted at in TFA). The Military pretty much said "fuck them" when DARPA started developing AI to shoot and blow people up autonomously. Trying to pacify people now does what exactly? Are they going to try and convince us that nobody could ever change the bit in memory? Puhleaze!