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So is google going to start supplying the DoD when the DARPA projects graduate?

• sitkack 13y ago
  Good thing they have that first law that prevents them from doing evil.
  • venomsnake 13y ago
    But not preventing them from introducing "bugs". I wonder when will we see first robot genocide? In 10 years? 20?
    • nomedeplume 13y ago
      30
    • mladenkovacevic 13y ago
      Whenever it happens I am sure it will be fully democratic and completely lawful.
    • sitkack 13y ago
      It probably already happened in the 80s (Nicaragua, Honduras or Panama) with a partially automated AC130 gunship.
      • dm2 13y ago
        What part of an AC130 is automated?
        • sitkack 13y ago
          The smaller more asymmetric military operations are often used to test prototype weapons. My response about automated genocide is that it most likely already happened. And I can't think of a better testbed than an AC130 gunship for an automatic aiming system, the operators only see thermal blobs anyway. Not like this, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/ This would be trivial to automate https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanistan_HighResolution https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanista...
          • dm2 13y ago
            Wow, I hadn't heard of that story, truly scary stuff. This video was linked to in that article, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/video-robo-weap/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/video-robo-weap/ hopefully every soldier, programmer, and engineer working on these systems has to watch similar videos so that they know the importance of getting this stuff right.
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  • mirkules 13y ago
    First law: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." (Only applicable to sentient robots, of course) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
• yeukhon 13y ago
  I don't think that's necessarily a negative thing, just because it's Google. Think about how many university professors receive grants from DoD. How many of them are actually purely for science? They are all practical.
  • twelve40 13y ago
    > grants from DoD ... They are all practical You'd be surprised. I've done a couple of grants for projects that ended up being completely open to public and DoD didn't really give a shit about, despite providing some sweet funding for them. But Google... that's a different story.
    • yeukhon 13y ago
      I think you missed my implication to his response. The way he put it is that Google is evil so when it moves to DoD and it must be evil, and I say that's not necessarily true just because Google being Google.
• stdgy 13y ago
  The article states that they said that while they intend to honor Boston Dynamic's current government contracts, Google is not interested in becoming a government contractor.
  • psbp 13y ago
    They're just interested in becoming the government.