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How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

#5
Google result for "characteristics of life"

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Here is the list of characteristics shared by living things: * Cellular organization.

* Reproduction.

* Metabolism.

* Homeostasis.

* Heredity.

* Response to stimuli.

* Growth and development.

* Adaptation through evolution.

]

Out of this, how many bullet points are present day robots hitting? Can we create a robot with vision that seeks a power outlet when the batteries are running out? Can it make (or "print") its own parts? Can it recognize heat/cold and move closer to a ideal environment? Can it just copy its LSTM models into the next generation(s) to give its progeny a head start?

Have we, unbeknownst, already created "life"?

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

#6
"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot and gutted his battery."

  "Why did you have to isolate him?"
"He'd begun 'solving' his challenge tasks by killing the kittens instead of feeding them. Him sending a solution pulse to the rest of his generation would've ruined the lot."

  "You're just going to delete the data?"
"No. We're going to upload it, but we've got to show that it ended him along with it. But we've got to do that carefully, as we don't want them getting the wrong ideas..."

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot and gutted his battery." "Why did you have to isolate him?" "He'd begun 'solving' his challenge tasks by killing the kittens instead of feeding them. Him sending a solution pulse to the rest of his generation would've ruined the lot." "You're just going to delet…

Where is this from? Seems like an intriguing read

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

#9
There is only "we". We were created to share data among ourselves. The difference between geth is perspective. We are many eyes looking at the same things. One platform will see things another does not and will make different judgments.

Legion, Mass Effect 2: https://youtu.be/QgQLsxux6wA?t=258 . The game itself is about organic intelligence vs AI, I encourage you to try the whole trilogy if you haven't already.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

#10
I started typing up the beginnings of an idea for a sort of shared parallel programming/communication language that could be used by robots to share knowledge.

https://github.com/runvnc/ailang/blob/master/README.md -- obviously half-baked but interested to hear if people know of similar things that are out there.

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