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"Time to die."
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.
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Robots with a sense of self-preservation. I think I saw a horror movie with this premise. To avoid its own destruction the robot realized its survival depended on killing all the humans!
Great! Killbots with existential neurosis.
"Time to die."
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
That’s what HAL realized in 2001 Space Odyssey. He took care of that possibility.
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
From a time when movie scripts could be fine poetry. Wonderful.
Robots MUST be programmed with self-sacrifice AI.
Agreed
That would be seriously annoying. I imagine sales of such a car would be quite low.
Self-preservation will be a requirement for war robots, and these will be among the scary robots.
it’d probably get junked pretty quickly, but the fight between the car and the wrecking yard robot would be epic!
From one who maintained industrial robots.
The problem with the example at the end is programming the robot to tell WHY it is doing that.
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
From a time when movie scripts could be fine poetry. Wonderful.
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IIRC, Rutger wrote that himself.
Daisy, Daisy ...
I’m a Blade Runner.
I “retire” robots.
Blew the crap out of one of those runaway robot vacuum cleaners today.
It tried telling me some story about a Tannenbaum Gate or something, so I put about a dozens rounds into it.
Little brushes flying everywhere.
So...Do androids dream of electric sheep?
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