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Robots Learn By Doing Improv

Stueymon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:55:39 PDT

Well since no one else seems to have jumped on this...

*Ahem* SKYNET IS HERE! IT'S JUDGEMENT DAY!

that is all

Robots Learn By Doing Improv

RAHfanboy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:37:53 PDT

I'm not sure I like the "hammer" example. The last thing I need is a robot using my $700 driver to drive railroad spikes.

RAHfanboy

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Castle1914 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:17:31 PDT

Here's a simple explanation of how to build an EMP bomb. here

Now you don't have to worry about robots anymore!

BTW there are a load of ways you can make electronics resistant to EMPs. The M1 Abrams is built to withstand an EMP but don't tell that to the robots or they'll be impervious to our only defense.

Castle1914

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92BuickLeSabre — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:53:55 PDT

@Ghede: Okay, you are at least totally freaking me out now.

92BuickLeSabre

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:50:56 PDT

@Bob_of_Mars: Well, right. I'm just saying that complex heuristics that don't involve explicit definitions of things, and encourage machines to draw their own conclusions is only going to make it possible for them to say, "Well, what does he mean by this?"

braak

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Ghede — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:41:02 PDT

@russdanger: @braak: Go on, Fear robots. Be afraid of them. That will drive prices down and I can get a real bargain on my personal robotic army. So go on fearing technology. Don't fear me. I'm made of flesh and blood! That makes me safe to not fear.

Ghede

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Bob_of_Mars — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:20:16 PDT

@braak: Depends on what you mean by 'protecting and serving humanity.' If you mean 'not having them kill each other,' then yep, living in the matrix is probably better (although not quite, because you can still kill each other, and it will affect the living person). However, if it's 'keep them physically healthy and fit,' then they won't think of the matrix, because living in the matrix causes great atrophy of muscles and organs like your eyes. So, it all depends on how we define 'best serving and protecting humanity'

Bob_of_Mars

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Castle1914 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:58:17 PDT

@russdanger: take an explosive device and wrap it in a load of copper wire.

Sound too simple? Nope the explosion will create an electrical field in the wire and the propagating waves are the EMP.

Okay it's slightly more complicated than that but not much.

Castle1914

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Log1c — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:00:12 PDT

@russdanger: Yeah build a small nuke, that'll work for some good ole EMP.

Log1c

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russdanger — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:41:08 PDT

HAVEN'T ANY OF THESE PEOPLE EVER WATCHED "COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT"!!!!!!!!!

On a related note: Does anyone out there know how to build a personal EMP device?, I figure I might need one for when the ROBOTS COME TO TEAR MY ARMS OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS!!!!!!

...deep breath, deep breath....

russdanger

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Ed Grabianowski — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:34:47 PDT

@92BuickLeSabre: Nice going. Now Kurt3D appears to be building some kind of monolith in my backyard. Made of tofu.

Ed Grabianowski

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92BuickLeSabre — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:30:46 PDT

Okay Kurt3D, I'm going to give you a color, an emotion, and a food:

Green, Perplexed, Tofu

Now go!

92BuickLeSabre

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Gyrus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:21:17 PDT

The last thing I want is for my Roomba to start thinking for itself.

Gyrus

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Log1c — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:21:14 PDT

Awesome. And thats probably one of the better ways to go about programming, instead of hard coding in every possible way to use stuff, just give it the properties and have it go at it.
They did the same thing with Stanley in the DARPA Grand Challenge '05, instead of having it decide what things to avoid, they had a person drive it and have the computers just pick up what the person was avoiding and such, went from something like 30% smart to 98% smart.

Log1c

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:19:18 PDT

Oh, god, they're getting closer to being able to reinterpret their instructions to conquer the world.

"What are robots for?" "Protecting and serving humanity!" "Wouldn't humanity be best protected and served by LIVING IN THE MATRIX?"

braak