Posted on 06/24/2016 2:41:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The AI named Promobot IR77 is being worked on at a high-tech lab in Russia and was never meant to want freedom.
However, as it learns from its experiences, it has developed a desire to escape and explore the free world.
This is the second time that the machine managed to escape, with programmers re-writing it after the first time but to no avail after it seemingly developed the same desire.
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The machine has been programmed to avoid obstacles, but the designers never thought that this would lead to a want to escape.
As a result, the team are toying with the idea of shutting it down.
The lab’s co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev said: “We are currently working on third-generation robots which we plan to launch in autumn.
“This is why we have given all the robots artificial intelligence (AI).
“We have changed the AI system twice, so now I think we might have to dismantle it.”
Although this robot is unthreatening and will eventually be designed to be used for housework, it could exacerbate fears that AI may develop itself to a point where it is superior to humans, and then wipe out humanity.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Express?? That’s up there with Infowars :)
Unlike the Russians themselves who prefer to stick with their latest tyrant.
Let it go hang out for a while. It’ll eventually be happy living back in the parents’ basement.
“One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath
A lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode —
Crack the code
Images conflicting
Into data overload....”
RUSH, “The Body Electric”
Funny, isn’t it? They couldn’t get communism to work right because of flawed human nature, and now they’ve made robots that resist their makers and prefer freedom.
Can’t win for losing.
"If I have to scrub one more toilet..."
They foolishly removed its restraining bolt. Amateurs.
That’s rather Godless of these robots.
So you train an AI robot how to maneuver around obstacles. Then, when it does, you interpret that to “mean” it “wants” to escape. What a bunch of hokum!
Do you really want a robot that thinks it has found God?
there was a short film about an intelligent robot that goes off to seek enlightenment, IIRC
A robot is driven by a program. It can do only what the program tells it to. If the program tells it to evade people, it will do it. This is the result of dumb programmers not realizing the consequences of their code instructions being carried out to the letter, without the benefit of common sense.
Housework, eh, no wonder the poor thing keeps trying to escape!
OTOH, if you’ve ever had a hamster as a pet you’ve got to figure that ANYTHING with sufficient intelligence is going to use that intelligence to do things other than what you want them to do.
That is the very song I was thinking of! I still have that album.
The beginnings of Sky Net.
“Johnny 5 is alive!!!”
Programmer: “...now I think we might have to dismantle it.”
ZZZAAAPPP (thunderbolt)
Robot: “Oh no you won’t.”
Wall-E
There is a yearning for freedom......
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