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Renew Deal

(81,847 posts) Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:21 PM Mar 2016

So if a chat bot can learn to be racist, what stops an autonomous weapons bot from learning to

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So if a chat bot can learn to be racist, what stops an autonomous weapons bot from learning to (Original Post) Renew Deal Mar 2016 OP

Execute Plan 66 Gman Mar 2016 #1

lol Renew Deal Mar 2016 #6

Nothing bravenak Mar 2016 #2

whatever you do, don't expose it to social media 0rganism Mar 2016 #3

Programming. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #4

Or just create its own side, and additional varieties of itself... petronius Mar 2016 #5

You need to teach it sarisataka Mar 2016 #7

Gman

(24,780 posts)

1. Execute Plan 66

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:24 PM

Mar 2016

But those were clones.

Renew Deal

(81,847 posts)

6. lol

Reply to Gman (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:29 PM

Mar 2016

Probably still the most important and interesting scene in the prequels.

bravenak

(34,648 posts)

2. Nothing

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:25 PM

Mar 2016

0rganism

(23,930 posts)

3. whatever you do, don't expose it to social media

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:26 PM

Mar 2016

war is one thing, but those twitter trolls are fucking brutal!

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

4. Programming.

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Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:26 PM

Mar 2016

Neither of those things are conscious. The Chat bot was programmed to learn how to react to people. The programmers did not expect anybody to teach it to react in that way.

An autonomous weapons platform will is not going to let loose to talk to assholes on the internet.