Robots 'Evolve' the Ability to Deceive

Swede

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:31 PM
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Robots 'Evolve' the Ability to Deceive

Roh roh!!!

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have found that robots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find "food" eventually learned to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. The results are detailed in an upcoming PNAS study.

The team programmed small, wheeled robots with the goal of finding food: each robot received more points the longer it stayed close to "food" (signified by a light colored ring on the floor) and lost points when it was close to "poison" (a dark-colored ring). Each robot could also flash a blue light that other robots could detect with their cameras.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24010/?a=f

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myrna minx

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:35 PM
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1. That's why you never set your robots to "evil".

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ZombieHorde

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:49 PM
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4. Increase by the value of one unit. nt

Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 08:50 PM by ZombieHorde

(nerdy way of saying +1)

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valerief

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:35 PM
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2. I never even knew robots ate!

(only joshing)

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Seldona

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:56 PM
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6. They do eat.

Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/military-researchers-develop-corpse-eating-robots/

The project is called the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, or EATR.

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valerief

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:59 PM
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7. Woo, cannibots! nt

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Seldona

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Fri Aug-21-09 03:02 PM
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8. They will also conviently 'eat' any evidence of war crimes.

No more containers or mass graves. It's win/win!

:sarcasm:

The product of a truly disturbed mindset.

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DJ13

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:44 PM
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3. Oh great just what we need

Robotic Republicans

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ZombieHorde

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Wed Aug-19-09 08:50 PM
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5. Ha! nt

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