Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion

[TitsMcGee]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.

The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.

The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.

Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.

"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."

The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.

Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.

[Slogo]

Fortunately that wouldn't be for some time now. If it happens we'll all be dead by then anyway.

[Scary Guy]

I Robot was based on the three laws. There are in fact six. The AI doomsday scenario is nothing new, and trying to find a cure/solution for/to it is nothing new either, even in the military sector, even if the military says otherwise.

http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Asimov.html

Scroll down to "An Extended Set of the Laws of Robotics"

If we create a bunch of killing machines, that is what they'll do.

Also Slogo, it's closer than you think. We're expecting circuitry and programing capable of emulating the human mind by at least 2030 and that's the outside estimate.

[Slogo]

I Robot was based on the three laws. There are in fact six. The AI doomsday scenario is nothing new, and trying to find a cure/solution for/to it is nothing new either, even in the military sector, even if the military says otherwise.

http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Asimov.html

Scroll down to "An Extended Set of the Laws of Robotics"

If we create a bunch of killing machines, that is what they'll do.

Also Slogo, it's closer than you think. We're expecting circuitry and programing capable of emulating the human mind by at least 2030 and that's the outside estimate.

well i think you'll understand that i am a seeing is believing kinda guy

[Scary Guy]

well i think you'll understand that i am a seeing is believing kinda guy

Ok, so I was a year off

Where is HAL 9000?

In 1968, Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick had imagined that by the year 2001,

a machine would exist with an intelligence that matched or exceeded the

capability of human beings. The character they created, HAL-9000, was based on hard science: many leading AI researchers also believed that such a machine would exist by the year 2001.^[149]

Marvin Minsky asks "So the question is why didn't we get HAL in 2001?"^[150] Minsky believes that the answer is that the central problems, like commonsense reasoning, were being neglected, while most researchers pursued things like commercial applications of neural nets or genetic algorithms. John McCarthy, on the other hand, still blames the qualification problem.^[151] For Ray Kurzweil, the issue is computer power and, using Moore's Law, he predicts that machines with human-level intelligence will appear by 2029.^[152]Jeff Hawkins argues that neural net research ignores the essential properties of the human cortex, preferring simple models that have been successful at solving simple problems.^[153] There are many other explanations and for each there is a corresponding research program underway.

Alan Turing's

quote from 1950 still applies in the 21st century: "We can only see a

short distance ahead, but we can see that there is much to be done.

[Rev.Reverence]

Stupid fucking humans!

[candyman]

I want one! I shall name him Jeffrey Dahmer and he will be my shopping buddy in Milwaukee...he knows the best places to eat too...

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

*starts saving to buy lands to build underground bunkers... * and they WILL have bathrooms... no potty in buckets... big enough to refuge several hundred humans, self sustaining gardens and what not... like an underground eco system (Disney Gardens (don't remember its real name, sorry) is experimenting growing plants in a hydro system.... with just fortified water, ect... I think I'll do that... and I'll have a mad scientist boyfriend, and he and his team of slav-- I mean fellow scientists will develope ways to maintain a meat protein food sorse... lmao... I kid, i kid... or am i..

and if you are really nice to me, when the robots attack, i might let you live there.... if you are nice... otherwise, when the food is low, you will be eaten first. lmao...

but yeah, seriously, I kinda see this happening... I mean they are already in the works of developing a computer system that syncs with a monkey's brain waves.... (to try and help paralyzed people become more independent) so the whole "Terminator" thing, I could see happening...

but I also plan on taking over the world ( )so who knows.....

[Saint Germain]

Reminds me at Doolittle discussion with Bomb #20 at the end of John Carpenters "Dark Star"

[StormKnight (1)]

I was thinking more in line with the Cylon wars myself (from both old and new series.)

[Scary Guy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdHuCyjqKw