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Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind
malachiorion writes Researchers are force-feeding the internet into a system called Robo Brain. The system has absorbed a billion images and 120,000 YouTube videos so far, and aims to digest 10 times that within a year, in order to create machine-readable commands for robots—how to pour coffee, for example. From the article: "The goal is as direct as the project’s name—to create a centralized, always-online brain for robots to tap into. The more Robo Brain learns from the internet, the more direct lessons it can share with connected machines. How do you turn on a toaster? Robo Brain knows, and can share 3D images of the appliance and the relevant components. It can tell a robot what a coffee mug looks like, and how to carry it by the handle without dumping the contents. It can recognize when a human is watching a television by gauging relative positions, and advise against wandering between the two. Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on. It’s a system that understands context, and turns complex associations into direct commands for physical robots."
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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Researchers are still determining the reason behind Robo Brain's incredibly rude behavior.
Roombas (and variants) are common household robots. YouTube has a lot of videos about Roombas cleaning a room while being ridden by a cat. Sometimes the cat is wearing a shark-suit.
Therefore, as this project progresses, Roombas will start to hunt cats in the neighborhood in order to get them to sit on top of them while they clean a room.
Or TFA is massively overstating the research and the concept and even robotics.
Robotic hive mind, just sounds like a bad idea.
We need some movies where the Robots and the Super Intelligent computer is the good guy for once. Just so we can get research grants and come up with neat new things.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The system has absorbed a billion images and 120,000 YouTube videos so far,
What this really points out is that we need to lay the groundwork for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Robots.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I can see it now... I take my wife out for a romantic dinner. An attractive redhead sits at the table next to us. As our Robotic waiter comes to our table it takes a wide swath around to the other side of the table while repeating in a robotic voice:
"Attractive female detected! Target customer preference for this hair color/body type. Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
May I take your order? Will your companion be returning? And will this angry gentleman be joining you?
1) history shows that humans absolutely destroy anything that ever threatens us.
2) robots don't need oxygen to breath.
instead of trying to kill humans it is most likely that robots will just leave the earth. humans won't easily be able to chase them so then the robots can live on their own and mine some asteroid or moon for resources and not have to compete with humans.
Isaac Asimov liked to write about the ways robots could improve life, he didn't see them as the threat that Hollywood likes to dress them up as. Of course, when you're making a movie and need to save as much money as possible for the SFX budget you don't bother getting a good writer. The Autobots are "good", right? And in the (heavily bastardized) I, Robot film "Sonny" was good, too.