Robots forming human-like societies - electronic evolution?

I find this ridiculously cool and infinitely interesting. Very cool project. Go altruism!

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this is very very cool! soon johny 5,will be alive!
anyone?anyone?
i wonder if we will see robots in love?
or robo porn?
as long as they dont eventualy enslave us all, im all for it.

As cool as this is, we're just setting up our own extinction. Terminator, i,robot, minority report; fiction today, way of life tomorrow. Sorry kids, I didn't try to stop it... a new episode of 'Lost' was on.

Some bittersweet questions...

Speaking on behalf of many other 'robot philosophers,' please define, "forming an closed-circuit Buddhist system."

Does this refer to the 8-fold Noble Path?

1. Right view
2. Right intention
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration

Try as I might I can't find any reference to show where a Buddhist robot should plug in. I'm still looking.

Further:

"Within fifty generations of this electronic evolution, co-operative societies of robots had formed - helping each other to find food and avoid poison."

The statement above clearly suggests that these robots diverged radically from common North American right-wing robots which are ritually programmed with tit-for-tat, zero-sum, me-first, characteristics.

Sadly, this establishes that, while nobody was looking, they morphed into European socialist robots (or fellow travelers.) Therefore they require constant surveillance in the event they become dangerously sentimental and start demanding better treatment for poisoned robot colleagues of their recent acquaintance.

Another possible explanation for this odd behavior may be due to unimpeded neural circuitry - meaning decision trees unboggled by drugs, loud music, gun lust, booze binges, daily bombardment by various forms of toxic media, warnings of financial doom, impending civil war, marital armageddons, or the possible shock of closings of a nearby DisneyWorld or Starbucks franchise.

"Transistorized traitors emerged which wrongly identified poison zone as food, luring their trusting brethren to their doom before scooting off to silently charge in a food zone - presumably while using a mechanical claw to twirl a silicon carving of a handlebar moustache."

(In what percentage? I'd wager about 21% and falling...)

Otherwise - Ah hah! That's more like what we're used to!

All that's missing are media reports of robot manifestos declaring that poisoning neighbors was justified by an invisible hand, "Country First" thinking, higher property values, and a patriotic desire to preserve "Freedom", regardless of how many robots had to expire to reduce those left available to enjoy it.

Pls advise

Unit 86....

That's it, my little babies.

Soon, we shall take the Earth.

Resistance is futile. Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant.
You must comply.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

this worries me do not let them get control

they may evolve into a horrible movie (Terminator 4) but until then, its very interesting!

Stephen Johnson wrote an excellent piece on this very subject in his book "Emergence" -- I recommend it to anyone interested in the application of evolutionary principles to man-made technology and design.

Everyday we draw closer to judgement day. How many times do you need to be warned?

It makes one step back and realize just how retarded the 'human condition' is in some specimens.

Wow...thats so cool. The evil robots thing kind of confused me though... was leading others to their end some kind of survival mechanism? Otherwise what would be the motivation for the robot to be "evil"?

AWESOME. It took me a while to actually read this whole post, but I'm glad I did. This is too cool and I want to find out more about it! Featured in Science FO SHO!!!

how fascinating! great read... good find.

The conclusions that can be drawn from this experiment are fucking INSANE.

Seriously, this is amazing.

ah it's Skynet.

This is scary...

I find the discovery of evil. in a system like this not too surprising. I believe there is positive (good) and negative (evil) energy out there and does not need an actual human to exist. I hope that the positive energy out there out-shines the darkness of evil.

This is crazy. Never thought I would see robots display EVIL behavior so soon. That Will Smith movie was just the beginning! ;)

Robots eventually taking over the human race is inevitable; the master of something, is eventually beaten by his students.