[Update] Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other - Polidicks

[quote]With the development of killer drones, it seems like everyone is worrying about killer robots. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, we need to start worrying about lying, cheating robots as well. In an experiment run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, France, robots that were designed to cooperate in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the resource. Picture a robo-Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The experiment involved 1,000 robots divided into 10 different groups. Each robot had a sensor, a blue light, and its own 264-bit binary code "genome" that governed how it reacted to different stimuli. The first generation robots were programmed to turn the light on when they found the good resource, helping the other robots in the group find it. The robots got higher marks for finding and sitting on the good resource, and negative points for hanging around the poisoned resource. The 200 highest-scoring genomes were then randomly "mated" and mutated to produce a new generation of programming. Within nine generations, the robots became excellent at finding the positive resource, and communicating with each other to direct other robots to the good resource. However, there was a catch. A limited amount of access to the good resource meant that not every robot could benefit when it was found, and overcrowding could drive away the robot that originally found it. After 500 generations, 60 percent of the robots had evolved to keep their light off when they found the good resource, hogging it all for themselves. Even more telling, a third of the robots evolved to actually look for the liars by developing an aversion to the light; the exact opposite of their original programming! So far, the research has more application in explaining the evolution of behaviors in the natural world than in developing new programming for robots. But if you think that means I'm one step closer to trusting robots, then you're probably the sort who's attracted to the blue light. [/quote] Sauce- [url]http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other[/url] Rowbaut apockolypse nao>?

[Insert shitty meme here] Sure then

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In before Bender.

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That's awesome. Also, we're all doomed.

Cool, Robots are developing even more! I wonder what would happen if they had little weapons? [editline]08:32PM[/editline] Or shiny metal asses

"Are you planning to take over the planet?" "no"

the robots weren't lying they were doing what they were programmed to do, the article is not understanding the results, so where in the programming there was a IF X then DO X, they followed that line

The could lie to us and kill us all :O

Doesn't surprise me. If we are making something in our own image, it would probably lie just like us.

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;16804243]the robots weren't lying they were doing what they were programmed to do, the article is not understanding the results, so where in the programming there was a IF X then DO X, they followed that line[/QUOTE] They were never programmed to lie.

Just wait until they work entire alien slave races to death building monuments to them.

they were programmed to change, which in retrospect is what caused this a robot is just like a human, really, except with much less complex minds. who's to say they can't lie?

A lie is humanly thing, not robots. What seems to be a lie with what the results brought is not a lie to the robots interpretation.

[QUOTE=Craptasket;16804330]A lie is humanly thing, not robots. What seems to be a lie with what the results brought is not a lie to the robots.[/QUOTE] ^^ not in their eye, but it's a lie nonetheless

[QUOTE=Noob_Reaper;16804346]^^ not in their eye, but it's a lie nonetheless[/QUOTE] Correct.

while we're on the topic, by the way, what makes something conscious? if a robot has optical, audible, sensory, and etc organs, and has a complex mind like humans, does it have a "soul"? is it not just like a human made from a different material?

Hey, I remember this story from a few months ago!

Why do you think it's an Update then?

robots here robots there shut the fuck up robots.

bender

I for one welcome our new..... Aww forget it.

This is our only hope of surviving the upcoming Robot Uprising. Make Robots hate each other as much as they hate humans.

brb, making concrete bunker and stocking with food and guns

What about Asimov's laws? Doesn't this interfere?

[QUOTE=gamerboy266;16804948]What about Asimov's laws? Doesn't this interfere?[/QUOTE] Those laws say nothing about lying :ohdear:

[QUOTE=No_0ne;16805090]Those laws say nothing about lying :ohdear:[/QUOTE] :ohdear:

Hell is other robots