Jul 26 2009Scientists Fear Robots Are Getting Too Smart
How would you like to wake up to this guy staring at you? You wouldn't, would you? Okay, how about the guy with the phone? I give him a maybe. Anyway, some scientists (the smart ones) fear that robot intelligence is going too far and we must do something to stop them before they stop (read: kill) us.
Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.
[They] generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon.
That's right, AUTONOMOUS KILLER ROBOTS. You remember Twiki from Buck Rogers? He was one. Bidi-bidi-bidi!
Thanks to joe, Red, Daniel, Carmen, jabberw0ck, Rogue Cheddar, Retroprofile, Sarah, Princess Padme's Masturbation Fantasy and Patrick, who all help me fight the good fight. Fight first, pizza party second.
Reader Comments
1. fefef - July 26, 2009 3:18 PM
first
2. megatron - July 26, 2009 3:21 PM
second bitches
3. Spikey DaPikey - July 26, 2009 3:40 PM
Burn them with FIRE !!!
4. Chundermutton - July 26, 2009 3:44 PM
11st!!!!!!!!!
5. Stupid Kid - July 26, 2009 3:50 PM
Clearly I am 5th Post. ):-|
6. smart genius - July 26, 2009 3:51 PM
clearly i am 6th
7. Chaz - July 26, 2009 4:08 PM
So basically we evolve into robots, in a stupid kinda way, as they will occupy the planet after us.
8. bankoreanrobots - July 26, 2009 4:10 PM
the robot only becomes dangerous when the creator is dangerous .
korean robot makers will probably the first to make man threatening humanoid robos
9. Robot - July 26, 2009 4:17 PM
oh yes look at that sexy piece of machinery!!!! what would be so wrong with him standing over my bed? :P
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10. Pat - July 26, 2009 4:43 PM
GW, you're like the guy who carries "The End is Nigh" sign ... and no one is paying heed.
11. Pistol Pete - July 26, 2009 5:00 PM
I'd hit that
12. Dishy Dishyington - July 26, 2009 5:12 PM
I don't really see what's wrong with killer robots, as long as they don't eat us afterward. Just look at the terminator. He turned out to be a pretty nice guy. He just needed to get all that killing/blowing-things-up stuff out of his system.
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14. Princess Padme's Masturbation Fantasy - July 26, 2009 7:05 PM
WooHOoo!!!!
GW actually acknowledged my existence!!!
15. lover of robots - July 26, 2009 8:23 PM
I love robots, what is it with your weird dislike towards them?
16. Daniel - July 26, 2009 9:12 PM
A lot of NY Times readers I see! A bunch of pinkos we must be.
17. brian - July 26, 2009 9:56 PM
I better reread How to survive a robot uprising
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19. joe - July 26, 2009 11:15 PM
that joe at the bottom... thats me. :) i've been thanked publicly on the most important news outlet of our day.
20. Frank Glover - July 26, 2009 11:16 PM
"korean robot makers will probably the first to make man threatening humanoid robos"
NORTH Korean robot makers might.
But if they're as effective as their ICBM/satellite launchers, I don't worry for a while...
21. joe - July 26, 2009 11:17 PM
and Daniel... i came across it totally by chance and created a user name i can't even remember to read it. something to the effect of NYTisaRag
don't count me among the pinko NY slimes readers.
i'm a geekologie reader.
22. Yutzwagon - July 26, 2009 11:21 PM
OH GOD GW WAS RIGHT!
I bow to thee, great GW, and offer thou a big book of dinosuars and a box of tissues.
23. fak - July 27, 2009 12:38 AM
imp on a threadmill on the flatscreen????
24. Pistol Pete - July 27, 2009 2:01 AM
I'd still hit that
25. Told you so - July 27, 2009 2:06 AM
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
26. Pistol Pete - July 27, 2009 3:03 AM
Just sayin
27. needalias - July 27, 2009 3:19 AM
OLD! This ran in the NYTIMES last Friday and Geekologie is just receiving the memo, geez!
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33. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 7:03 AM
nobody else noticed the monkey on the treadmil in the background? don't they know you can get real porn on the interwebs?! Not this half arsed monkey work out vid crap...
34. Daisy - July 27, 2009 7:19 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Never Beck Down where Max found that when he got hurt Baja felt the pain. After they noticed this, they started masturbating at inopportune times for each other.
35. Yep - July 27, 2009 7:24 AM
Sorry to say, but I trust robots a lot more then humans. At least when a robot kills you he dose not have some bull shit justification of how god told him he can get some poontang in haven if he dies it.
36. Jaded Icon - July 27, 2009 7:29 AM
So true Daisy, so true.....
37. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 7:34 AM
@Daisy
Kinda like when GFS eats a porkchop sandwhich my gut hurts?
38. Spikey DaPikey - July 27, 2009 7:34 AM
@23 an 33 Yup, thats a fukked up thing on the treadmill !
39. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 8:33 AM
@38
Detected-d-d it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'...
40. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 8:39 AM
@15
Now you listen to me, lover of robots. You don't blow your money on those comic books, you understand? They don't do you a damned bit of good, and the nude mags, you're gonna be inheriting mine when you're 16 anyway. Now look, the junk food and the candy just rots your teeth, gives you bad breath, and the girls run like hell. Stay the hell away from buying any rock TV shirts, or hip hop gear, or anything like that. Arcade games — pick out one that you can do, okay? ONE that you can do as opposed to a whole bunch of them that you don't know what the hell you're doing. Techno music just puts a hole in your brain — are, are you listening to me? Look at me when I'm talking to you
41. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 27, 2009 8:51 AM
@STOMPY
Guess what I'm having for dinner.
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43. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 8:59 AM
@GFS
But they need to be deepfried, or at least shaked and baked...
44. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 27, 2009 9:05 AM
Nope. The George Forman Grill does the work in half the time.
45. STOMPY (doesn't think ur comment is funny) - July 27, 2009 9:30 AM
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46. Joker Boy - July 27, 2009 9:53 AM
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47. Pr0nny F1ve - July 27, 2009 10:28 AM
47th GET
48. Tofu Butcher - July 27, 2009 10:54 AM
Yeah I noticed the monkey on the treadmill in the background as well, I thought it added a new context to the photo.
The robot is actually the elderly boss of this lab, and the human to the right is its lowly PA. The monkey on the treadmill is a step on the way to enslaving humans, the real research of this lab.
@ 20. Frank:
I think the point is that South Korea are advanced robot weapon builders (they have a "Aliens Directors Cut" style Samsung brand automed turret already built. And robots do not recognize the feeble human concept of "Countries".
49. Silence - July 27, 2009 12:30 PM
Hey, so long as they're made to look like: http://www.orient-doll.com
Perhaps things won't be so bad?
50. Pistol Pete - July 27, 2009 12:49 PM
@ # 49: I'd hit all those
51. sup - July 27, 2009 1:56 PM
GW was right all along. good thing I bought those anti-robot weapons.
52. MarsHottentot - July 27, 2009 3:05 PM
Yeah, I started worrying when they made that robot that had a child's developmental skills (i.e. - it LEARNS from it's environment) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE2VCwYDjx0. I'm glad I'm not alone. Pandora's box is open, though, and it'll never be closed. There will always be some guy with more brains than common sense out there racing to be the next God.
53. amber - July 28, 2009 8:59 AM
with all the chatter of who posted which number post (especially when the number shows up next to it) i'm beginning to think that if robots DO take over, we wont have the intelligence to stop them.. or really to hold them off temporarily even.. if there is any sign of intelligent life form on this website, contact me- we'll begin an alliance against said robots, and together we shall dominate! or.. something... Mr. Geekologie please join my crew. I shall fail without you.. plus you'd probably come up with the best name for us
54. Wesley - October 8, 2009 10:12 AM
Robots will never be too smart. AI and computer science in general will eventually grow to outstanding proportions. I can see a future within the next 80 years or so where robots are a standard.