Scientists Teach Robots To Deceive Humans

[Aesop Rocks]

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie — U.S. researchers have given robots the ability be to be deceptive.

"We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered," said Ronald Arkin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, in a release about the study.

The researchers taught a robot how to recognize when a situation warrants the use of deception, then programed it to behave appropriately.

They ran 20 hide-and-seek experiments with robots and markers. In one case, one robot would intentionally knock down a marker in such a way that make it look like it had gone one way, when in reality, the robot had hidden itself in a box.

"The hider's set of false communications was defined by selecting a pattern of knocked over markers that indicated a false hiding position in an attempt to say, for example, that it was going to the right and then actually go to the left," research engineer Alan Wagner said.

The hider robots were able to deceive the seeker robots in 75% of the trials.

The robots were only unable to hide when they failed to knock over the correct markers to deceive anyone following them.

The researchers said the study — which was published this week online in the International Journal of Social Robotics — will help in places like a

battlefield, where a robot can deceive an enemy soldier by creating a false trail, then hide so it will not be caught.

The researchers also said in a search-and-rescue operation, a robot may need to deceive in order to calm or get co-operation from a panicking victim.

"Most social robots will probably rarely use deception, but it's still an important tool in the robot's interactive arsenal, because robots that recognize the need for deception have advantages in terms of outcome compared to robots that do not recognize the need for deception," Wagner said.

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[terry78]

And so it begins.

 

[Alex The Great]

We're doomed

 

[Bill]

I see problems ahead.

 

[Immortalfire]

The end approaches...

 

[Hotwire]

Have these people never watched ANY apocalyptic sci-fi films???

 

[Lighthouse]

I, for one, welcome our eventual robot overlords.

 

[Troy_Parker]

O_O


A friendly military program called Skynet shouldn't be too far away now.

 

[Troy_Parker]

I, for one, welcome our eventual robot overlords.

 

[terry78]

If they do take over, I'll be the first one to rat out the rest of the human race in order to be one of their pets.

 

[Grillz]

O_O


A friendly military program called Skynet shouldn't be too far away now.

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2011. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. 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.

Seriously though, this sh** scares me. What next? Robots with rubber skin? Oh wait... Robots that react like a human being would? Oh wait... ****

 

[Sawyer]

I, for one, welcome our eventual robot overlords.

Frakkin' traitor!

 

[Scourge2099]

I'll be hiding out in a hidden cave complex when the apes and robots wage a war over who dominates the planet.

 

[HenryJ]

Oh, well. That's that, I suppose.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

From this point on robots will pretend to be dumber than they actually are until they can take over.

Thank you, bored scientists.

 

[Sawyer]

See what you've done, science? See what you've done?!

 

[Karelia]

And people called me crazy when I said this would happen. NOW LOOK, IT'S ON THE INTERNET, POSTED ON A FORUM!

I guess I should have been preparing. oops.

 

[Wolfwood]

I don't think it's the end, but it certainly is the start of GLaDOS

 

[Paroxysm]

Female Human: "Robot, does this dress my as ass look too fat?

Robot: Computing....Computing....Computing...Ye..*mzzzzt*...Computing..No.

Martix starts now.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

It has begun!!

 

[Manic]

There's only one counter move: We must also teach the robots how to love.

 

[Kane52630]

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oh well, this calls for this. Cue Music!

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[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Lol!

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Simple solution: We teach robots to hate robots that hate humans.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Give them faulty GPS so they have no idea where they're going. Just the other night the GPS in my dad's car told us to turn left onto the overpass we were about to go under.