SouthernJet Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion Thursday, February 19, 2009 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 "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ...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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guido Monzino Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 No fate but what we make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thai Jet Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion Thursday, February 19, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Skynet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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haggis Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 And if you watch Battlestar Galatica you'll know they created us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggis Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 well, kind of, they influenced, tried to change, alter, warn, improve on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJ667 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 calling Christian Bale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Bit Special Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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