Robots may some day demand rights

[paul]

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Robots may some day improve to a level of intelligence where they might be able to demand rights, even 'robo-healthcare'.
The recent British Government stidies shows as published in BBC news

[kev woodman]

Maybe the Government could start by making sure that most of the humans in the world enjoy those rights before they start thinking about robots. It must be a great job working on studies like that - you get paid to just make shit up - brilliant.

[paul]

The robotic technology would be more sophisticated, no doubt Robot will enter our daily lives in the near future, I foresee clash between human & robots......MATRIX Revolution.

[kev woodman]

I think we're al ong way off from robots that cold be considered intelligent enough to warrant legal rights. I was at a lecture on AI with Prof. Igor Aleksander not that long ago and we are still a long way away from anything that could be considered intelligent in the way we would normally use the term.

[laos]

It is truly a dark day arriving, considering their microprocessor can judge, MMORPG servers for example do a lot like that and could do such a thing except

1. Robots right now require some sort of human involvement, they are not perfected
2. a robot cannot think on its own yet but almost can

i think the greatest fear ever ( even more than robo-health care) is a ROBO UNION! GREAHHH!!!

imagine it, mininum wage, oil breaks, ugh. More ventilation for exhaust

[kev woodman]

Robots can't almost think on their own - we are a long long way off any kind of AI that could be considered to be 'thinking'. The level of 'intelligence' demonstrated by even pretty advanced software agents today doesn't come close to the level of intelligence demonstrated by pretty primitive biological entities.

It's hard to see most AI researchers being able to agree a definition of what intelligence is in the next ten years let alone develop an artificial version of it.

[laos]

no it's actually here, it's just it needs a set course etc. if it can develope a worldwide or universal way, it could do it. I've seen robots that can do such things however they do need a human's help

but,

a computer is a know-it-all
it must calcuate EVERY SINGLE THING and will overload probably, in order to prevent this it must focus itself on only the logical events.

[kev woodman]

Sorry Laos but none of that makes any sense.

You've seen robots that demonstrate a level of artificial intelligence that could be considered as being close to human? Where? We are not talking about walking up a flight of stairs here (although that is an amazing technical accomplishment).

A computer is not a 'know-it-all', a computer is a general purpose machine that knows nothing. Why would it need to calculate every single thing? It calculates what it is programmed to calculate. It doesn't 'focus' itself on anything just like a car doesn't 'focus' itself on not hitting a tree. Do you thin that if you don't offer a computer a program it just goes wild calculating stuff until it explodes? It doesn't - it does nothing because it is a machine. If anyone can show me one single convincing example of AI then I'll be quite happy to steal it and win the Turing prize but although AI is a fascinating and exciting area of research in many ways we are no closer to building a true AI now than we were when the subject was first discussed fifty years ago.

If anyone is interested in real AI rather than nonsense like the Matrix then I'd recommend any of Igor Aleksander's books, very readable (for AI books anyway) and not as horribly complex as some of the others.

[Administrator]

While driving for 12 hours yesterday with minor breaks I started feeling that can we trust some robots or softwares in future to drive for us ?

Well, This is possible as the algorithm needs to put conditions for the road differentiation. Keep safe distance from another car moving ahead with relative speed, make necessary direction change if another vehicle approaches from front, stop if there's no road ahead.

This things which we learnt at the time of driving can be added in a software for a next generation car driver. A combination of Image processing, ligt sensors, radars / doppler effect can be added to make a super robotic car driver.

Just think of it after you drive more than 300 miles in a day and you will find need of such driver

[kev woodman]

Beyond us at the moment but certainly a lot closer than any sort of robot that would require a bill of rights. The US military holds a competition for robot vehicles every year and some of them are getting very good. The problem is that people think a robot is something that replicates the functions of a human but we are surrounded by robots every day and they are a lot more use than that Aibo thing.

Personally I believe in the Sngularity - that we are approaching a time when we will be able to create a trans-human intelligence - but I don't think this is likely to be just an AI but an augmented human. And hopefully it will be me

[Administrator]

I dont think it is difficult to replicate you or replicate me as we all started from start box of the flowchart but different situations and location took you in different direction while I went through other.

Its all there in a flowchart written by god and he equipped humans with a complicated flowchart while he had no time to upgrade software version in other animals.

[kev woodman]

not the same point of origin - we have pre-wriiten instructions based on our genetic code - most of us have different genes so even if we led entirely parallel lives we would not necessarily turn out the same, God didn't spend much time debugging either by the look of it...and I reckon he skimped on the end user consultations.

[WebhostingUk-Reviews]

I've seen predictions that we are 50 to 100 years away from making a human-like robot, or even less.

Even without understanding our own brains, we can replicate the processing power. Studies in Neural network technologies have shown potential for future applications in articificial intellience. These networks can be simulated in software, and are used through out the world for various tasks. Neural nodes are 'trained' to react to certain stimulus. A larger network of trained neural nodes can then be trained to react quite similarly to the human brain.

After a two-year effort researchers at NEC System Technologies and Mie University in Japan have created a robot that can taste - an electromechanical wine steward able to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres.
Now question is that would you let a robot pick your wine?

[Administrator]

If I've had more than 3 glasses then definitely I'll need a robot to figure out if the bartender is continuing to give same quality of wine and if not then the robot should take action as per his wish

[kev woodman]

Cut straight from Yahoo Answers.

Neural networks are a bit old hat now and a lot of AI researchers see them as a dead end. Fifty years still seems reasonable unless we create trans-human intelligence in which case we might get there a lot quicker. As far as robots go the big question is - say you had the technology to create a robot that had the physical capabilities of a human and you had a 'true' AI - why would you build the robot? What would you be building it for? What job would it be intended to do? Remember that if it really does have true AI it is going to be a damn sight smarter than it's creator.