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ShelterWolf
ShelterWolf
Robot Web Eliminates Human Equation: What could go wrong?
Feb 11 2011, 3:37 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 11 2011, 3:37 PM EST
Thanks to RoboEarth the bots can learn on their own

RoboEarth will be a Wiki-style (Skynet) site designed specifically for robots. The site will work something like this. When a robot completes a task it will be able to upload data related to the task. This data will be available for other robots who require information on the task. A simple download will allow for robots to learn from each other, taking the humans out of the equation.

Data sharing will be all that the RoboEarth does. Much like the web of the early days, it will be purely a data sharing tool. Do not expect to see robot-based auction sites or dating sites in the near future. Then again the robots may not miss those features.

The RoboEarth project is the brainchild of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of (Grey) Technology in Zurich. The RoboEarth system will rely on having a certain amount of standardization between the robots who share the data. Otherwise, they will not be able to share the data universally. Without that standardization, the sharing of data will be very limited.

Since this project is estimated to be completed in about four years there will be some time for robots to get with the program.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-roboearth-bots.html

So, when the robots figure out how to build their own assembly plants and power plants and mine their own raw materials, what will they do with the humans? What will "RoboEarth" tell them? Do you find this valuable?    
I.Join
I.Join
1. RE: Robot Web Eliminates Human Equation: What could go wrong?
Apr 12 2011, 7:56 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 12 2011, 7:56 PM EDT
Very interesting, but the problem is not "what an AI will learn by that platform": if it is an AI, it can learn the same things by Internet, and if the network only contains movement optimization, that's a very stupid content...
The problem is another one: thinking to Skynet's evolution I always asked "what's happened by the drop of the bombs to the building of the first T?"... I mean, Skynet is a big brain... but it's ONLY a brain! How can he build something?
A good answer is this new project: an AI can hack into it to use other (stupid automatic) robots to "do the job" for him... and, in the beginning, even if humans will be involved, it will take some time before they understand that they are shipping strange devices to strange societies... by that time the strange society will have built something of fully independent, capable to freely move (not like the AI, which is in a server room) and to physically continue the job. Do you find this valuable?