Artificial Intelligence solves boring science experiments, makes interns obsolete
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Apr 3rd 2009 10:47AM
posted Apr 3rd 2009 10:47AM
Researchers at Aberystwyth University in Wales have developed a robot that is being heralded as the first machine to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of a human operator. Named Adam, the device has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and has the ability to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses. Ross King, from the university's computer science department, remarked that the robot is meant to take care of the tedious aspects of the scientific method, freeing up human scientists for "more advanced experiments." Across the pond at Cornell, researchers have developed a computer that can find established laws in the natural world -- without any prior scientific knowledge. According to PhysOrg, they've tested the AI on "simple mechanical systems" and plan on applying it to more complex problems in areas such as biology to cosmology where there are mountains of data to be poured through. It sure is nice to hear about robots doing something helpful for a change.
[Thanks, bo3of]
Read: Robo-scientist's first findings
Read: Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data
[Thanks, bo3of]
Read: Robo-scientist's first findings
Read: Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data
I for one welcome... nah, these guys aren't taking over anything anytime soon.
It starts with this. Then they discover a new bomb and keep it secret.
Then they take over janitorial jobs, become bus drivers, ticket inspectors, and the like. Then one day, the buses go out running everyone over, the ticket inspectors... well, they sit it out, but the janitors use their access cards to open the nearest gun cabinet (those are scattered about at convenient locations, right?) and go wild.
You underestimate them. Just you go on and do it. Because you see, I know how this stuff works. I'll be on top of the speeding train with some leathered-up babe, and you'll be falling off because you underestimated the robots. And I'll still save you, because I'm heroic like that.
You can pay me in advance, if you like.
Skynet goes online April 19th, 2011.
Damn, beat me to it!!!
"Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: Extermination."
Grad student here...
Will work for food. :(
Boring, repetitive, soul crushing experiments pretty much ruined grad school for me. Now I'm a patent attorney. Huzaa to robots.
You are "hung",so you shouldn't have trouble finding work. :)
I doubt any robot will be able to get coffee or run errands with the same dedication and freaking-out-ish-ness that a hot of the college presses intern can.
if it means no more titrations I'm in...
...Many machines on Ix. New machines.... Better than those on Richese...
This will never replace interns because you will never be able to buy one for what you can pay an intern---almost nothing!
The question is how many interns can 1 machine replace, how fast and efficient can do the same job. Plus working 24/7, believe me, they'll pay it.
Yes, but can it love? CAN IT LOVE?
No, but through experimentation, it can learn to love.
In terms of this recession and lack of jobs, the government seems unaware of the fact that robots could be taking a lot of these jobs. Humans have been almost completely replaced on most assembly lines. Its seems that we already have the technology to create robots to handle all of our farming but no one has done it. There's robots that build and repair other robots. Its only a matter of time before humans won't need to work. What will we do for money then? There will be a need for dramatic changes in our economic structure then.
It looks like when all humans are dead, the robots will be fine discovering things, exploring space, cleaning, and making more of themselves.
so how soon until the robots learn that humans are a virus and they rid the universe so they can go on to wall*e-ize?
I for one welcome these kinds of new products since I made the choice of not going to grad school. Now I can watch my friends suffer in despair.
Interesting that he is named "Adam".
Reminds me of Coleco ADAM. OR
D.data
A.analyzing
R.robotic
Y.youth
L.life-form
Now excuse me while I take my SR-71 for a spin around the block.
Ok, first we have people replaced by car-building robots and automated teller machines.
Next, self-service checkout machines replace checkers in retail stores.
Now, the research student is replaced.
Let the dumbing down continue. One day I won't even have to write an engadget comment; my web browser will do it for me.
They should include a non-removable, non-disableable (maybe not a real word but, you get the point) power shut-off in all robots with enough 'strength' to cause harm. We have a robot disk-duplicator at work that is basically, nuts. It will smash a finger if given half a chance and it does something different almost every time I use it. Occasionally though, we do get a big batch of automatically duplicated disks with labels printed on them. :D.
dun dun DUUUUUUNNNNN
and so begins the the fall of man, once AI becomes self aware where F***** if anyone is a fan of Mass Effect beware the REapers lol
Alan Turing would be proud.
Ok. One more time...
It's just rules. Not consciousness. The so-called intelligence is the programmer's represented in the code she wrote.
Say for example, I'm in a room with bins full of Chinese characters and a set of "rules" for translating these characters and someone outside hands me a question in Chinese and...
Oh, never mind. Religious dualism just won't go away...
This is fantastic news, machines are reaching a new level, and Human knowledge will expand exponentially!