Why There WILL Be A Robot Uprising (Video)

(Pic credit: Windstorm Studios)

via Defense One – Patrick Tucker

“When roboticists are asked by nervous onlookers about safety, a common answer is ‘We can always unplug it!’ But imagine this outcome from the chess robot’s point of view,” writes Omohundro. “A future in which it is unplugged is a future in which it cannot play or win any games of chess. This has very low utility and so expected utility maximisation will cause the creation of the instrumental subgoal of preventing itself from being unplugged. If the system believes the roboticist will persist in trying to unplug it, it will be motivated to develop the subgoal of permanently stopping the roboticist,” he writes.

In other words, the more logical the robot, the more likely it is to fight you to the death.

I urge you to read the article but it basically says this:  Artificial Intelligence will always be trying to get better at what its goals are and turning them off or landing them or whatever the case is that humans have to stop them for whatever reason will get in the way of that so that eventually,AI will develop the capability itself to not let that happen.  Which ultimately means conflict with humans is inevitable.  

I think robots/AI could the heirs of Earth.  Which isn’t bad for Earth but is definatly bad for humans.  Lord knows robots would know how to treat this planet, at least in theory.  You can’t really tell what an AI would or could do I suppose.  It has been the subject of many movies.  Terminator movies, I, Robot and Wall-e come to my mind.  Overall I think it’s very scary, I think our technology is far surpassing our humanity and that will catch up with us someday.  Man is a suicidal species.