F6, one ugly beast that BlueDog, oops AlphaDog/BigDog, in some 50 years i guess they could be, on their lonesome, maybe, being knocking on any of our children's doors. It looks they could be taking a load off military men, in more ways than one. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67654837 ..
The 'biological' chip and where it will take robots, putting loss of jobs aside, whilst intriguing is scary in so many ways, though IBM's "ultimate goal" of '10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses' leaves it well short of the human brain of '100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses'. Then again they say we don't use a large percentage of our brains.
With the 'neurosynaptic computer chip in it's advanced algorithms and it's silicon circuitry' being capable of 'learning through experience, finding correlations, building hypothesis, remembering, and learning from outcomes' (alas, much more than many of us do very well now) one left was reproduction which of course the military has now about solved.
Future killer robots could help build themselves By: Matt Hickey June 3, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
Robots that can self-replicate aren't new. But a new DARPA initiative is a little more frightening as it looks to create robots that can take part in their own construction, according to The Register. That means they're "alive" before they're finished and can help their forebearers put them together.
Now, I'm all for science, but DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is a military entity. That means these robots will probably have military uses. That means they'll probably be born to kill. And they'll come for me after Sarah Conner. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Connor_%28Terminator%29 .. [link added because, yup seriously, i didn't know the Sarah Conner connection. Guess that puts me firmly outside the with-it-at-all crowd .. chuckle .. gotta say she isn't my scene]
The initiative is known as the Self-Explanation Learning Framework, or SELF for short. It's currently in request-for-proposals mode, so don't go stocking up on the canned food yet. But if someone somehow figures out a realistic way for future AIs to function like this, then it might be time.
The science isn't quite there yet, so DARPA is holding an orientation day (PDF) for would-be mad scientists on June 10 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Va. When future freedom fighters get asked where the end of the world started, now they've got an answer.
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