Researchers claim to have developed robotic AI on par with a puppy
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 21st 2008 4:26PM
posted Mar 21st 2008 4:26PM
The robot uprising, it inches ever closer -- researchers working on the EU-funded COSPAL project have developed a new robotic AI that they say is the most advanced of its type ever created. Using both learning neural AI techniques and traditional rules-based AI as a control mechanism, the robot can be trained "like a child or a puppy," and has managed to figure out simple sorting tasks on its own. The next step is to try and integrate the system into a car that can adjust to unforeseen driving conditions, but the researchers in charge aren't worried about creating an army of KARRs set to mow us all down -- according to researcher Michael Felsberg, adult-level AI based on this system probably won't happen in our lifetimes. On the other hand, we've heard machines will match us by 2029 -- that'll be a fun debate to have when we're all slaving away in the robo-mines.[Apologies for the terrible photo -- sure, COSPAL can develop puppy-level AI, but they're apparently still rocking a QuickTake 100.]
Read - Physorg article on the COSPAL robot
Read - COSPAL site
fucking skynet.
Don't worry...
It will pee on the carpet and short itself out.
They're building them so one day they can fight them.
and "When" they loose.....
...they'll get "tight"
"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
I'll be impressed after it learns how to land nussies at the pub on friday nights.
I don't know whether to welcome my puppy-brained master or rub its nose in the carpet for what it did.
Despite what Knight Rider would have you believe, we all know KARR really stands for Kill And Repeat Robot.
Like we need a robot to chew up our sneakers and pee on the carpet?
Yeah, and they will be able to act like puppies too, not just children.
@Paul Hildebrandt:
What the hell kind of children do you have?
Boys
Hoards of puppy-brained auto-matons navigating our interstates? Reminds me of those old SNL sketches with 'Toonces The Driving Cat', an invariable unsurvivable crash the jarring coda to every episode.
Forever Puppies!
Dude it's cool as long as Big Willy Smith is still alive, he's saved the world like 23 times, he's pretty much my hero.
Yes. He is legend.
i welcome our new robotic underlings while i still have the advantage, and hope that when they shove these into cars they wont be able to govern our speed
I hope it doesn't leave puddles of hydraulic fluid on the floor when it gets startled.
I for one... Ah screw it.
remember that the adult film industry harnesses every form of technology first. peanut butter anyone?
People, it has already started. Mark your calendars, the robot uprising started here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3591734.ece
AI does not include morals, just rules. What happens when the robot thinks for itself and causes some type of mishap, crime, accident, etc? I think a mishap ending in personal injury would be more likely. Who do you sue/blame? Since the person did not tell the robot to do something, how can you blame them? Should be fun for lawyers to figure out. Luckily, I don't have to worry about that for now.
http://www.jackventurilaw.com
They want to take something with the intelligence of a "child or puppy" and put it in my car to help me drive?
I've seen teenagers drive... believe me it's enough to make you stay off the roads so I can't see that a small child is going to make my driving safer. Having said that, a 'small child' robot won't be texting while driving, weaving all over the road cos "there's Brittany... hey Brittany!" or trying to impress their robot friends.