Are Robots Really Trying to Stop the War?
Robot innovations are many, like cyborgs and a roaming robot dog that can play football. Some types are more immediate, like a patch of cells that allows a commercially available robot to test itself for long-term health.
Humanity is rapidly evolving. The human body is adapting to wearables and medtech as its constituent cells replace each other. As cells take shape, they can replicate themselves to form smaller structures as the body heals itself. Robots are part of this natural evolution, too. And they are rapidly evolving, too.
Robots are known to be good at processing and automating manufacturing functions, from manufacturing output to cooking. The technology is even capable of mundane tasks like serving customer orders, performing medical diagnostics, servicing car owners, and controlling the flow of a restaurant. Discovery News recently partnered with Machine Motion Insight to show how one robot is helping to grow human organs.
But there are other robots helping surgeons at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to solve medical questions. Among these is a robot that’s helping to understand why salamanders crawl on their feet. A decision tree function was developed specifically for salamanders to explain how moving toward a mobile food source causes the animals to have a natural rest. Learning about the mollusk’s behavior allowed the team to change the composition of the robot’s control system to increase speed at which they could access the smart food. This robot is part of a larger robotics program at Dana-Farber. A larger robotics program is currently teaching robots how to catch fish in the wild by using GPS and guiding itself into a web, so it can find its way back to a human.
Robots are more than just learning machines. They are also weapons of war. Machines perform an arsenal of tasks, from placing a bomb to farming. When a robot takes a human’s place in performing those tasks, it can use nonhuman bodies as shields, while posing a threat to them from both sides. In that case, robots can no longer rely on the mental defense of the human being to deter them from attempting a hostile act. New research shows that robots can be slowed down, disrupted, or killed by electromagnetic fields, heart attacks, and falling off elevators.
No one can predict what AI will do in the future, except the philosophers. The solutions AIs need are coming naturally, from humans. They will be able to learn from each other when AIs intelligence rises higher than the human mind.
AIs are already hard at work outside of the human world. Computer modems help these supercomputers download data and perform calculations at greater speed than the human brain could process. And even robots with only limited language comprehension and limited human insight can assist firefighters and autonomous submarines in giving detailed directions and dangers that they encounter.
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