Comments on: Talking Japanese http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:27:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-101719 Jeff Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:01:09 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/#comment-101719 Thanks. PS- I was being a smartass Thanks.

PS- I was being a smartass

]]> By: nick gogerty http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-101697 nick gogerty Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:09:58 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/#comment-101697 the 3 laws are irrelevant unfortunately. As drone planes etc. get smarter and pre-programmable the line between robot and human actor shrinks. Is a cruise missile or drone capable of "choosing an optimal target" that far away? A device making a choice involving lethal force is very likely in the theatre of war. Most likely this is already in place. Unfortunately the 3 laws assume a nice anthropic model of a device making choices involving people. Most early "robots" will evolve from devices performing simplistic functions with emrging decision making behaviour. Some of those simplistic functions already violate the 3 laws and thus the complex heuristics added to the devices would mean the laws are violated. the 3 laws are irrelevant unfortunately. As drone planes etc. get smarter and pre-programmable the line between robot and human actor shrinks. Is a cruise missile or drone capable of “choosing an optimal target” that far away? A device making a choice involving lethal force is very likely in the theatre of war. Most likely this is already in place.

Unfortunately the 3 laws assume a nice anthropic model of a device making choices involving people. Most early “robots” will evolve from devices performing simplistic functions with emrging decision making behaviour. Some of those simplistic functions already violate the 3 laws and thus the complex heuristics added to the devices would mean the laws are violated.

]]> By: Frank Koehntopp http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-100195 Frank Koehntopp Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:45:44 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/04/06/talking-japanese/#comment-100195 Funny enough, we just saw "I, Robot" on TV last night ;) Funny enough, we just saw “I, Robot” on TV last night ;)

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