January 15, 2008
through artificial natural selection, robots evolve traits such as self-sacrifice for the greater good, and lying
So, I'm not really sure what conclusions, if any, to draw from this article... "Lying is an emergent property of intelligent behavior" just seems a little ridiculous. And obviously, the truth isn't that simple. However, it is strangely fascinating that an experiment that involved programming robots with "genes" and then placing them in a "world" where they had to find food and avoid traps, Floreano observed the following:
The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink.
On the upside,
Some robots, though, were veritable heroes. They signaled danger and died to save other robots.
Robots evolve and learn how to lie
Posted by lara at January 15, 2008 03:59 PM
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