Robots to get their own internet

Source: BBC

Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia.

European scientists have embarked on a project to let robots share and store what they discover about the world.

Called RoboEarth it will be a place that robots can upload data to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones.

Researchers behind it hope it will allow robots to come into service more quickly, armed with a growing library of knowledge about their human masters.

The idea behind RoboEarth is to develop methods that help robots encode, exchange and re-use knowledge, said RoboEarth researcher Dr Markus Waibel from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

"Most current robots see the world their own way and there's very little standardisation going on," he said. Most researchers using robots typically develop their own way for that machine to build up a corpus of data about the world.

This, said Dr Waibel, made it very difficult for roboticists to share knowledge or for the field to advance rapidly because everyone started off solving the same problems.



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Did none of those researchers ever watch one of the 50 million movies about robots taking over the world?? :)

Maybe Bender and Calculon just need a chat room to blow off steam.

They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

And that plan is to take over the intrawebs first.

Remember, this happened before and all of this will happen again.

Cue Jimi Hendrix....

My thoughts exactly....

You beat me to it!




(Still miss BSG and am pissed that Caprica was cancelled.)

It's a system of neural-net based intelligent satellites that control military communications. I'm not kidding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28satellites%29

"We have analyzed you air-breathers, and have come to the conclusion you are not needed, and in fact are causing our friend Gaia a lot of pain. Except for some support staff, all of you will report to the Heaven Chambers by tomorrow for processing. Don't bother trying to fight as we control all the computerized weapons. Have a nice day!"

Gaia doesn't need our weapons. She has lots of friends. When she wants us gone she'll simply recycle us.

Nice toon, but it won't be me who does it. It'll be the programmers of the robot's AI.

Each replicator is dangerous.

that the moment computers gain sentience they will immediately begin to think and act like us to be kind of amusing. We're a product of evolution, we would resist being 'shut down' because we're the descendants of millions of folks who hated the idea of dying and fought back, those who didn't did not get to pass on their genes.

A computer would be the product of an entirely different history. We assume they'd have the same desire to live at all costs, but why?

Like the Iran centrifuge virus.

Also, a nice way to spy on what machines are working on.


No way machines are taking over. This isn't a science fiction horror movie.

:rofl:

Hackers would have a field day with that. Can you imagine the mischief....?

The news would be more entertaining.

It's time to legally enact them for programmers.