A new robot has been developed at Meiji University in Japan that can tell the difference between its own image in a mirror, and an identical robot mimicking it -- an ability known as "mirror image cognition." This "SELF AWARENESS" is the first created in a robot. The research is being headed by Junichi Takeno, the same guy who built a robot named Kansei designed to exhibit artificial consciousness.
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3 laws...that's all I ask for.
SkyNet is comming..
And next up.... Skynet!!!
And next up...Skynet!!!
wow, optical recognition. they've only had that since 1989.
Meh. HAL did it back on the 12th of January, 1992 in Urbana, Illinois.
If only it were 25 - 35 years into the future now, when this will be useful and not a bulky toy.
Next time post about something interesting and check your spelling.
This isn't just Optical recognition. The robot is differentiating itself from an IDENTICAL other robot. It's like looking in a mirror and telling that it's your twin you see, not yourself.
This IS optical recognition. An image in a mirror is reflected (i.e. backwards) at the viewer. There is a distinct visual difference between seeing your reflection and seeing an identical copy of yourself. Any recognition routine that isn't a complete waste of time would be 'aware' of this difference immediately. Therefore, this is optical recognition, not consciousness.
Next time you decide to announce that computers are 'thinking', you might want to do a little bit of it yourself.
IMHO - It would be more factually accurate to call this "self-recognition" rather than "self-awareness". They carry two distinct connotations, and the modified term in no way diminishes the technical accomplishment.
EWWW SKYNET... EWWW
NOW THE BULKY STEW POT WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD
This is not self-awareness, it's mirror awareness.
ALl we need now is conciousness in even the smallest degree.
What this research has given us, is a very basic version of DATA
You guys are being needlessly mean to each other...can we be kind?
i hope im dead b4 these things take over
yes, but can it make perfect toast?
Put an exoskelet on the toaster and let it search for s.connor.
That robot looks like a chemistry experiment on the closed lid of a grand piano on top of half of a severed Storm Trooper's head.
Yes, but can it differentiate it's own image in a mirror from a robot made in exactly a mirror image? That might be a bit more interesting (but quite trivial actually).
The first thing it said to the lab techs was....
Does this mirror make my ass look fat?
Ah yes, being Japanese, this will be the ancestor to wonderfull robot heroes such as Megaman or Astro Boy
you guys, it becomes self awareness when the bot can look in the mirror see its own reflection and that of other identical bots and distinguish between its own reflection and that of the other bots.
This is digital self awareness even though primative in nature.
This is self awareness without consciousness- no biggie.
Lab in Awareness Self Gains Robot?
http://www.physorg.com/news9242.html
Humans don't understand mirrors so how can we expect the robot to?
maybe one day I can use this robot to "recognize" wastes of time
Given a few weeks, I probably could have made this myself. What does it do - wiggle a bit and see if the image it sees wiggles the same way? How hard can that be?
Google is skynet.
Great. One day I'll get stuck behind a robot putting on makeup in a mirror in her car. Thanks!
oh my godzies what the fuck lolipops
Self Awareness and Self Recognition
are not the same things.
Self Awareness is the sole property
of Information, and only Information can share it's awareness with things it has made of matter, which things it interfaces with to exibit such phenomena. The Lab is on the wrong trail, and is behind the current state of the art in interfacing with The Body of All Information, which animates all things.
dude.
this is scarier than a freakin bear with rabies flying a plane with little fuel that has several sharp objects pointing out of the front, and on top of all that, the bear is hungry.
I think that it moves and if its image moves too like he moved, then it tellst that the image it is looking at is itself.
Are you Sarah Connor?
Alright! Sexbots here we come!
Okay, self recognition is when it looks in the mirror and can tell that the reflection is a reflection of itself... Self awareness is when it looks in the mirror and thinks, "Ugh, I really look ugly today. I hope they stop the tests early today, I can't take much more of this."
Whoa, this is neat. Despite being a partial waste of time, I have a mental image of robots walking into glass doors...
I don't think people will ever clasify /any/ robot as consios, because it is eisier to move the boundary of consiousness, rather than admint that we have some competition. And people who are afraid of skynet or want asimov's three laws implemented are idiots, no robot is smart enough yet to pose any threat other than running into you, because it sees itself on you shoes (if you have realy shiny shoes)
Self awareness will be the end of the robot sex slave industry.
"It would be more factually accurate to call this "self-recognition" rather than "self-awareness"."
I think I'd just call it "optical pattern matching" and avoid the use of the word "self" altogether. Self implicity entails sentience which this thing is not.
This is just image recognition, the robot sees that the image is copying what its doing and thinks, "O, thats me and not just another robot." Also, some of the other data I found on the internet was quite misleading, it said that it "gained self awareness" this implies to me that it wasn't programed to recognize itself, it just started doing it, in this case that would be a little strange.
wow people like to whinge
its actually quite interesting
When this thing looks in a mirror and says, "Oh my god, I look like shit!" then maybe we'll call it self-awareness.
Why do so many either act so mean toward AI,,or get scared? Does mankind really deep within feel so inferior to the concept something else could or would become conscious? There are a zillion things all around you that are conscious all the time,,and those things be they know or not are conscious. Im not so much talking about things unseen here but we could, and say there are critters under your finger nails that are conscious. Your body and its cells are conscious and have individual little bitty minds of consciousness too. The true fear perhaps is based on the fact once machines are programmed correctly to learn,,they will in fact learn,,and learn much faster then humans do. But that in itself would mean less harm and less hostility or less damage done then say what a human does growing and learning. And as such the machines would learn its a better move to work with humanity to help us advance and advance with us. Of course there is the possibility they could evolve to just want to separate from us and out hostility or destructive paths if we wont advance with them, but that would be a flaw on humanities part not theirs right? But they would not want to destroy us since learning how to destroy is not advancing or improving as so many now days may think. So worst case scenario is they would prefer to just avoid humans, and advance alone, with that maybe or maybe not "then" being the smarter choice.
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