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Posted on 11/29/2008 2:05:35 PM PST by RogerFGay
Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia (iRobis) has announced commercial availability of Brainstorm®, the world’s first “complete cognitive software system for robots”. The system turns robots into self-developing, adaptive, problem-solving, “thinking” machines. The system automatically writes control programs for any robot on which it is installed, dramatically shortening development time and cost. The same technology is used to allow robots to adapt to new circumstances and solve other problems while in operation. ... read more
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The plus side is that the Swedes won’t need “cheap” immigrant labor. The down side is Skynet.
Skynet is first activated.
How far are these systems from weponization and ultimate extermination of most of the humans
At least several weeks.
/johnny
Heck, my pool vacuum learns and has already self actualized.
When I was about five there was a black and white movie, in which, some people went to another planet. There were some women, and this guy fell in love and they were going to come back to earth...anyway something happened and the woman fell apart with wires and protrusions—she was a robot. It made me cry, cause he couldn’t fix her.
Oh joy.
Yup= They work for ACORN......
Thinking machines. Hmmmm.
We’ve seen plenty of examples of human “thinking machines.” Some of them might even be called psychopaths.
Without emotions (empathy, morality, to name but two) this could create some really big problems in the future.
they say it got smart, a new order of intelligence.
The threshold for self-aware computers may be vastly lower than we imagine.
Why duplicate the human brain? We already have a lot of those and most of their functions do not directly contribute to any dedicated task such as producing goods or services. They are frequently preoccupied with the opposite sex, television, or food. While computers are very fast at processing some kinds of information, they can’t approach the flexibility of the human brain, but then they don’t need to. Example...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.htm
An “experimental “brain” interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator through a specially designed plate called a multi-electrode array and a common desktop computer. “It’s essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a grid at the bottom,” DeMarse said. “Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network – a brain.”
“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” DeMarse said. “So you hook it up and the aircraft simply drifts randomly. And as the data comes in, it slowly modifies the (neural) network so over time, the network gradually learns to fly the aircraft.”
Now there may be some who might argue that a rat is in fact more intelligent than an Air Force pilot, but realistically it doesn’t even come close. The point is that it is dedicated to a single task and therefore the required processing power is far lower than a biological system would require.
How much processing power is needed for chasing screaming carbon-based life forms with a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
I for one would like to welcome our future robot overlords.
I know one robot who has developed...
...an enormous appetite for beer.
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