Author: Janosch Zwerensky
Date: 11:42:58 05/12/02
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>I'd suggest reading Asimov's many Robot short stories developing his Laws of >Robotics. In principle, Asimov's laws of robotics are fine, but I am not sure that we could implement them if we some day built an actual machine of human-like intelligence. The reason for this is that I think that there is no practical way of hand-coding all the knowledge the robot would need to even *understand* the three laws, let alone follow them with any degree of accuracy, which means it would have to build the mental structures needed for comprehending such things essentially by learning. Once the robot *could* understand the three laws I'd predict that *we* would not understand the mind it had developed in sufficient detail any more to know exactly what we were coding into it when we tried to imprint its mind with the three laws... In addition to that, that learning phase would likely not work anyway if the robot did not have a different, easier-to-implement system of motivations (than the one induced by the three laws) in the first place. I don't think it is likely that one could turn these off easily when it's "grown up" without damaging the robot's mind.
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