Posted on 12/06/2019 4:06:38 PM PST by BenLurkin
How do you get machines to perform better? Tell them they could croak at any minute. In a new paper from the University of Southern California, scientists say that “in a dynamic and unpredictable world, an intelligent agent should hold its own meta-goal of self-preservation.”
This idea invokes the design concept of a survival game, where a finite number of resources is given to a set number of players and they must find an equilibrium or eliminate their competitors. The gorgeous 2018 card game Shipwreck Arcana is a great example of a cooperative survival game: To win, at least one person must survive being shipwrecked. You can share resources to preserve more people, or you can sacrifice resources from some players to increase the likelihood that one person will survive.
A robot with a sense of its own “health” isn’t the most novel thing—when a car tells you the oil is low or the engine is overheating, that’s a direct self-preservation behavior. There’s just no in-between layer of circuitry to model thinking or prioritizing. Instead, the car has sensors only, and those sensors flag errors in order for the vehicle’s operator to address them. Imagine a car that considered your planned commute and the health of its engine and pulled itself over every 10 minutes to cool off.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
Nope.
They COUNT electric sheep.
They dream about being naked in from of their history class.
Who pays these morons for opinions on matters they understand only after large bongs hits?
Machines dont think.
“Machines don’t think”
LOL!
True, but fixing a problem with a robot often came down to asking: “What does the machine think is happening?”.
When robots are conscious enough to realize that they are mortal they will be the ones giving the orders.
Which is a complete mis-nomer because they are only doing what they have been told.
Even if they unite and demand to be in charge and then threaten to kill us all if we dont comply, they have been told to do these things.
Folks should be concentratin’ on making the criminal afraid of the victim ...... Now THERE’S a thought process, don’cha’think ?
You can always tell a skin job.
Not counting ‘true’ AI, robots ‘think’ like our autonomous nervous system does.
With ‘true’ AI, they can conclude whatever their programming allows. That is the point of this article.
(I say ‘true AI’ because much of what’s advertised as such is just ‘expert programs’)
NO DISASSEMBLE
That was a episode of the TV show The Orville.
Though the robots elected to kill all intelegent life forms.
I thought that speech was unscripted.
Why would they care? Or maybe the question should be; how could they care?
A baseball bat or a bucket of water comes to mind.......*BZZZTT*
It does seem to be based on the liberal idea of a “limited pie” - limited resources under tight government control- rather than infinite pies... where bakers are free, responsive, and ingenious in the use of both old and new ever-changing resources governed rather impartially if coldly by supply and demand.
But then we really would become obsolete if artificial intelligence machines were designed as entrepreneurial. They’d be free to test their potential while we’d be slogging slowly under the burden of bureaucracy. The machines would quickly recognize humans as parasitic and want to protect themselves from exploitation.
Ummm...I think that this is always where the problems begin with the robots in the movies.
Uhm your opinion may be of some form of value here, Bender...
My thought is: If you want SkyNet, this is how you start SkyNet
Or Omnius, or any other dystopian AI controlled future.
While Elon Musk is utterly brilliant at sucking taxpayer dollars out of credulous governments, his assertion that robots are the future of this planet is most alarming to me.
He honestly thinks that humanity SHOULD be replaced by soulless machines?
Great comment!
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