Scared Robot Teaches Children How To Like Scary Robots
With the military building scary armed robots already, it was about time for robots that are scared of these monsters. Phobot, a Lego Mindstorms Robot built by students from the University of Amsterdam, is exactly that: A robot that is scared of bigger robots.
Now here comes the pedagogical value: It can “learn” to lose its fear by conditioning it with increasingly big and evil looking things. The process, shown in the video below, is meant to help children with phobias to learn that not everything is as scary and bad as it seems. Especially not the autonomous sentry gun protecting the kindergarten. Enjoy!
(Via Spiegel Online)
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Man, 81, kills himself with shot from ’suicide robot’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3591734.ece
Igor Gabrielan / March 23rd, 2008, 3:52 / #
For the first time, robot knowingly killed human performing the second law of Asimov and violating the first law Azimov.
Igor Gabrielan / March 23rd, 2008, 4:07 / #
Yeah, I’ve read that, but it’s not really related to AI. The contraption (I think it is a bit of a stretch to call it a robot) is a simple trigger-pulling machine without any higher controlling mechanism.
Robin / March 23rd, 2008, 19:47 / #
This situation suggests a scenario. Someone wants to commit suicide. To that end, he programs the robot. Robot performs this program and kill the author program, but:
1. Robot does not stop, and continued to kill.
2. The program comes to other robots, which are also beginning to kill, carrying out this program.
Around the world, millions of such robots …
Igor Gabrielan / March 24th, 2008, 8:00 / #
Proceeding from this case, it is easy to withdraw a rule of limaitics:
Robot should not have free, downloadable memory.
Otherwise harmful, the hostile program easily spread among robots.
A more general way: not to be combined free programmability and possession effectors.
Let’s remember that Asimov robots were rigidly programmed.
Igor Gabrielan / March 24th, 2008, 15:13 / #
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