Re:Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
by lukeqsee on Friday January 06, 2012 @09:44PM
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Robotics rule #1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#.22The_...)
Also see this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intellige...
Re:Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
by nextparadigms on Friday January 06, 2012 @09:51PM
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I don't remember now, but I think I heard that law is flawed, and could be easily bypassed, even when used together with the other 2.
Does anyone know how that law is flawed? Unless I'm remembering it wrong.
Re:Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
by summerdown on Saturday January 07, 2012 @07:17AM
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In 2003 there were 6 million car accidents, not to mention people falling over, wars, etc. You're mandating the robot to put everyone in a padded cell for their own good.
Re:Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
by lukeqsee on Friday January 06, 2012 @10:28PM
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Here's the paradox: a human tells a robot to kill another human; at that point, law #2 is in direct opposition to law #1.
Re:Would an intelligent computer have a "right to life"?
by nextparadigms on Friday January 06, 2012 @10:56PM
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But why would it be? If you give it the first law, then that command should be "disabled" for anyone from outside. You could try to tell a robot that, but it shouldn't work. Your best chance should be if you try to trick the robot into doing a certain action that would indirectly get that person dead. but if he's smart enough to know how to protect a human life, he should be smart enough to deny you the command, knowing it will endanger that other person's life.
If aliens existed, and came here, I wonder if they would treat us the same depending on whether they are only 2x, 10x or 1000x more intelligent than we are. Of course it's also possible that the more intelligent they get, the more they will want to preserve any kind of life, and will try to get their resources from something else to survive.
It should get interesting if we ever develop human brain-like artificial intelligence, and then we amplify it by 1000x following Moore's law for a couple of decades. Kill switches would become useless. We'd just have to teach them to value life more than anything, before it's too late.