Check out this clip from [http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/sony-teaching-aibo-scary-new-tricks/|a June 23, 2006 post] at Engadget.Com that talks about the software the Aibos have been installed with which:
...allows them to not just communicate amongst one another, but to actually employ a sort of group-think to independently establish the rules of the language they're using. Perhaps the scariest part about this so-called Embedded and Communicating Agents technology is that the robodogs are initially programmed with a very simple command set, which they build upon to form a common knowledge base about their environment, constantly chatting and teaching each other new discoveries that they've made.
Anyone familiar with the anime series Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex might recognize this as a possible prototype for the Tachikoma--a group of self-aware robot tanks that share their experiences with each other and get so curious about life that they begin to wonder about God and their place in the universe. It should be interesting to see how far these Aibo can evolve. I'm just glad that Sony didn't give them opposable thumbs.
Check out the [http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/23/sony-teaching-aibo-scary-new-tricks/|post] at Engadget.Com for more robot-dog-overlord-fun.
Is it really ethical to be testing on an endangered species? ;)
ReplyDeleteI think the ethicacy question falls to the side when you're worried about the newly sentient victims of your experimenting decide to go for revenege for making them endangered in the first place! Besides that, ethics? Who needs ethics? It's the 21st Century!! Weeeeee!
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