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Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other
popsci.com ^ | August 18, 2009 | Stuart Fox

Posted on 08/19/2009 9:21:52 PM PDT by spyone

With the development of killer drones, it seems like everyone is worrying about killer robots. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, we need to start worrying about lying, cheating robots as well.

In an experiment run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, France, robots that were designed to cooperate in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the resource. Picture a robo-Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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Robot 1: Do you love me?

Robot 2: You know I do, more than anything. Now open your fusebox.

1 posted on 08/19/2009 9:21:53 PM PDT by spyone
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To: spyone


I did not have sex with that robot.


2 posted on 08/19/2009 9:23:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: spyone

In other news, Politicians fear a loss of employment due to automation...


3 posted on 08/19/2009 9:24:15 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Bender2

Somehow, this seemed right up your alley...


4 posted on 08/19/2009 9:24:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: spyone
Ohhhh....first a new Zombie threat...and now Lying Robots?! What a week...
5 posted on 08/19/2009 9:25:42 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I did not have sex with that robot....Ms. Xj7503e


6 posted on 08/19/2009 9:26:18 PM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: ShadowAce

ping


7 posted on 08/19/2009 9:27:11 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: spyone

garbage in, garbage out, einsteins.


8 posted on 08/19/2009 9:28:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
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To: bamahead

the fallen nature of man is to lie and cover his behind.... this doesn’t surprise me.

What does surprise me is when someone does the Right thing for the Right Reason....


9 posted on 08/19/2009 9:28:48 PM PDT by bareford101 (Be loud! We have nothing – NOTHING - to apologize for in fighting for our Country!!)
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To: spyone

LOL!


10 posted on 08/19/2009 9:29:56 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

“I did not interface with that system...”


11 posted on 08/19/2009 9:30:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

“it was just a simple lube and oil”


12 posted on 08/19/2009 9:33:07 PM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: ConservativeMan55
I did not have sex with that robot.

XKCD did a wonderful comic on this
just little too racey to post a graphic directly

http://www.xkcd.com/600/

13 posted on 08/19/2009 9:35:46 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: spyone

“I just pinged her! No data packets were exchanged, I swear!”


14 posted on 08/19/2009 9:36:08 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: spyone

If they can lie, they must be democrats.


15 posted on 08/19/2009 9:44:46 PM PDT by luvie (We want freedom; obama is giving us tyranny--all across the board! ~Michael Ledeen~)
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To: spyone

They’ve been hanging out with DemonRATS too long!


16 posted on 08/19/2009 9:46:45 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Honest...I only sniffed a couple of her packets”.
“Your honor, I only wanted to SNMP into her VPN tunnel...”


17 posted on 08/19/2009 9:53:12 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase

That is funny right there, I don’t care who you are.


18 posted on 08/19/2009 9:54:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: spyone
Robots! Robots! And MORE Robots!

19 posted on 08/19/2009 9:54:51 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: spyone

They can will fit right in with the Democrat party.


20 posted on 08/19/2009 10:04:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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