Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other

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With the development of killer drones, it seems like everyone is worrying about killer robots. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, we need to start worrying about lying, cheating robots as well.

In an experiment run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, France, robots that were designed to cooperate in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the resource. Picture a robo-Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

The experiment involved 1,000 robots divided into 10 different groups. Each robot had a sensor, a blue light, and its own 264-bit binary code "genome" that governed how it reacted to different stimuli. The first generation robots were programmed to turn the light on when they found the good resource, helping the other robots in the group find it.

The robots got higher marks for finding and sitting on the good resource, and negative points for hanging around the poisoned resource. The 200 highest-scoring genomes were then randomly "mated" and mutated to produce a new generation of programming. Within nine generations, the robots became excellent at finding the positive resource, and communicating with each other to direct other robots to the good resource.

However, there was a catch. A limited amount of access to the good resource meant that not every robot could benefit when it was found, and overcrowding could drive away the robot that originally found it.

After 500 generations, 60 percent of the robots had evolved to keep their light off when they found the good resource, hogging it all for themselves. Even more telling, a third of the robots evolved to actually look for the liars by developing an aversion to the light; the exact opposite of their original programming!
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...They're learning. First it's lying. Next...slaughtering all mankind. Slaughtering us with their...evil lights of doom.
 
Well, I hope we implement self destruct in case stuff like this happens and robots take over the world.
 
Oh great.

It's not like EVERY freaking sci-fi movie tells us intelligent robots are a bad thing.
 
... Both me and my mom are wondering how that's possible. Also, on a related note:
TV Tropes said:
Interesting fact: While most of the games take place in 20XX or 21XX, the first game took place in 200X. You have 1 year for that robot killing spree to happen, Capcom.
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This was on the Mega Man page.
 
After reading the above, I shall purchase as many of those guns from transformers that I can. You know, the ones that rip the transformers apart.

On an interesting note, as I typed this, a transformers commercial came on.
 
...I think I'm in love. *ain't that the strangest reaction to an article on potentially doom-riding robots*
 
So....let me get this straight.

If the world ended tomorrow and everyone in this thread survived and searched for food, I'd be a liar for hogging it all to myself? That's not lying, it's just douchebaggery. The robots didn't learn to lie, they just reasoned through their programming and realized the obvious. Ten people and one apple isn't gonna work. One person will get to eat, the rest will go hungry. Simple math.

Mind you, I'm not saying this isn't interesting or anything, but refusing to turn the light on doesn't make them liars. It just does what we all knew robots could do to begin with--reason with what information they've been given. Not exactly a big deal...now give one of those "lying" robots a blow torch or something and see if it defends it's resource? THAT I would be more afraid of. :p
 
Dude I totally did not oil your wife. It had to be RX5001. Seriously though this is shit scary. They will first shed blood of the human. Then lie about it. This proccess will repeat until a war breaks out. Then the robots will take over.
 
Thank you for letting me wake up with the coolest story I've heard in awhile. It's technically lying because their programming said to turn the light on when they found something. What they were doing was this:

"R2? Did you find the spark plug?"

(hides spark plug) "Uh, nope. You're screwed, 3PO."
 
It's not lying, they are just following what they were designed for at the perfection. Get resource, use light to tell others. Simply not telling others gives more resource, and that was preciselly what was being analized.

The ones who AREN'T doing so, though, are the ones that are somehow aware of this and seek for where there's supposed to be nothing, instead of going to the lights to get the resources.
 
Deception (not signaling a resource when it's clearly there) = lying
 
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what more do i need to say except we are one step closer to the picture above
 
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Shigshwa said:
Well, I hope we implement self destruct in case stuff like this happens and robots take over the world.
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silly, you must not have heard of the overlord protocol. a sentient computer can theoretically modify its coding, including deleting its deletion protocol.
 
Of course every robot is going to be modeled to look like California Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger (5 points if I spelt it right)
 
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Oh no robots can lie now ;_;

What if my microwave was lying to me when it said it wouldn't hurt me.
 
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