GhostOfCaptSpaulding
08-01-2009, 11:58 PM
[offsite:zhsvkupn][inmg=right:zhsvkupn]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/21b45o13x25c54o34d45e/killer-robot.jpg[/inmg:zhsvkupn]Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots
Advances in artificial intelligence are bringing the sci-fi fantasy dangerously closer to fact
A ROBOT that makes a morning cuppa, a fridge that orders the weekly shop, a car that parks itself.
Advances in artificial intelligence promise many benefits, but scientists are privately so worried they may be creating machines which end up outsmarting — and perhaps even endangering — humans that they held a secret meeting to discuss limiting their research.
At the conference, held behind closed doors in Monterey Bay, California, leading researchers warned that mankind might lose control over computer-based systems that carry out a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting on the phone, and have already reached a level of indestructibility comparable with a cockroach.
“These are powerful technologies that could be used in good ways or scary ways,” warned Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft who organised the conference on behalf of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
According to Alan Winfield, a professor at the University of the West of England, scientists are spending too much time developing artificial intelligence and too little on robot safety.
“We’re rapidly approaching the time when new robots should undergo tests, similar to ethical and clinical trials for new drugs, before they can be introduced,” he said.
TimesOnline | Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6736130.ece)[/offsite:zhsvkupn]
It's encouraging to note that the issue is being discussed, but in private?
Will mankind be usurped by it's own robotic offspring?
Advances in artificial intelligence are bringing the sci-fi fantasy dangerously closer to fact
A ROBOT that makes a morning cuppa, a fridge that orders the weekly shop, a car that parks itself.
Advances in artificial intelligence promise many benefits, but scientists are privately so worried they may be creating machines which end up outsmarting — and perhaps even endangering — humans that they held a secret meeting to discuss limiting their research.
At the conference, held behind closed doors in Monterey Bay, California, leading researchers warned that mankind might lose control over computer-based systems that carry out a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting on the phone, and have already reached a level of indestructibility comparable with a cockroach.
“These are powerful technologies that could be used in good ways or scary ways,” warned Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft who organised the conference on behalf of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
According to Alan Winfield, a professor at the University of the West of England, scientists are spending too much time developing artificial intelligence and too little on robot safety.
“We’re rapidly approaching the time when new robots should undergo tests, similar to ethical and clinical trials for new drugs, before they can be introduced,” he said.
TimesOnline | Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6736130.ece)[/offsite:zhsvkupn]
It's encouraging to note that the issue is being discussed, but in private?
Will mankind be usurped by it's own robotic offspring?