A video is circulating right now in the Internet about a four-legged robot that’s built to carry backbacks on all sorts of terrain. The US military’s DARPA research division is funding its development.
It’s all cool until the 38 second mark, when a researcher kicked it.
The robot eventually regained its balance.
In the future, when robots are fighting for its rights, this video will be the earliest video evidence of robo-buse.
Have we learned nothing from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Will Smith, and Robin Williams? Why did he have to kick the droid?
I pray for scientists to install the 3 Laws protocol soon.
I was just watching Knight Rider S1 E9, Trust Doesn’t Rust where two A.I. cars of the same make and both equally intelligent and powerful try to outwit each other. The two are virtually and aesthetically the same but deep down in the core they are two different machines; one is three laws safe, but wasn’t fully disclosed and the other was programmed to defend itself. Erstwhile sentient, K.I.T.T (Knight Industries Two Thousand) hesitantly allowed his partner, Michael Knight to outwit his twin K.A.R.R (Knight Automated Roving Robot, gee, what a lousy name to christen a car, DUH!) in a game of chicken. True to KARR’s programming, it/he, but I prefer calling him HE since he’s almost human anyway, swerved to safety only to fall into a ravine.
As KITT and company were celebrating, KITT asked Knight how he managed to solve Zeno’s paradox. Knight however answered Zeno’s Paradox remains unsolved, however, deducing KARR’s response due to his programming, he managed to outsmart the sentient car. And with this response, KITT made this statement: “Michael, your logic is illogical but it does make sense”, thus, I postulate this premise — A.I. could never emulate nor outsmart a human being since the only humanity he could gain is logic.
ok for some freebies:
In “Trust Doesn’t Rust”, the voice of KARR was provided by voice actor Peter Cullen, better known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the The Transformers cartoon series. In “K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R.”, KARR was voiced by Paul Frees, best known as the voice of Ludwig Von Drake in the popular anthology series, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. Frees was uncredited on-screen for his role, leading Peter Cullen to sometimes be wrongly credited as providing KARR’s voice in “K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R.”
You lost me at Knight Rider S1 E9… :p
hehehe Chompy, it just happened I’ve got the whole season one of Knight Rider and currently I’m watching Episode 14.. and I’m starting watching the A Team.
This reminds me of the prequel to “The Matrix”. It starts out with robots being built to do man’s work, but the robots are starting to get abused and becoming aware of it. Eventually they break off and wage war with human kind and inevitably win. Soon enough they create a virtual simulation system gathered up of every human that was captured in the war, realistically mimicking the former and (ironically) current world. This system was called “The Matrix”.
Are you sure? Maybe you’re talking about SKYNET.
That would be the AniMatrix… SkyNet, if I may presume is the grandson of WOPR (Wargames). It was the only one who went sentient but it jumpstarted the other machines to follow his whim.
It has been said that the Terminator Series are sentient, but on a close observation, they aren’t. Merely, they base their decision on CycL programming,an attempted AI computer language which simulates human emotions and instinct. We can only assume that they could think for themselves because they seem tom however, if they were indeed sentient, they wouldn’t have to be programmed by a higher being.
If you wonder what Cyc means, allow me to quote from wikipedia: Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.