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University of Portsmouth egghead Honghai Liu in the UK and Jiao Tong University robot nerd Xiangyang Zhu in China are using artificial intelligence software to let robots "LEARN" how to move their robot hands by copying the movements of a human hand. The "cyberglove" (pictured) provides movement input for the system. Digital cameras are also used to capture movement.
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Wow, I'm a scientist myself by education and for some reason I can't actually see the good that's going to come of this. The scenarios for "good" use are endless, I can accept that, but what I can't accept is the inability for people to see what harm can come from this. AI has seen tons of controversy due to it ability to "learn" and now, "learn" from people. I don't know about everyone out there but I seem to deal with more "bad" people than "good".
what the hell is the anonymous commentor before me talking about? This would be HUGE for everyone in the world, especially injured militants. The AI hand isn't going to fucking shoot someone!
The 2nd commenter is an idiot. How do we get a story from the media about two very controversial topics, AI and the coming technocracy, and it's somehow pitched as doubly good! If AI can learn is it alive? If thats the case isn't it already a slave for being forced to work?
And while obviously there me be situations where a limb or hand would be nice to regain. But right now the costs of doing that are too high. Humans can do the same work, it would just take longer.
Imitation is not life, the systems do not become alive because they are able to learn, computers are slaves, but only as much as a mobile phone or wrist watch and I’m not seeing many ethical issues with that, it is fairly possible that in the future computers will have free thought, possibly creativity and unlikely but possible true emotion. All of these things can be imitated, but as yet not inherent. Personally I believe a system capable of these things would be immensely positive for the world, not only new life but also the endless possibilities that a thinking computer could bring, advances in science that most likely we would take much longer to get to on our own. I digress but I would hope at the point when a computer makes a personal request (not pre-programmed) such as “please don't do that” or “don't switch me off” then everyone takes a step back, and thinks long and hard about the next step to take.
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