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Tag Archives: artificial intelligence
Ethical killer drones
The trend in modern warfare, which typically means the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is attack your enemies by remote, work with the friendlies up close. Air power, rocketry, and artillery have long been weapons of remote attack; now the arsenal includes drones – flying robotics that do everything except make the decision to [...]
Posted in Impact: Robotics Also tagged drone, ethics, Laws of War, robotics, Rules of Engagement, Three Rules of Robotics, war crime, weapon Leave a comment
The Mind Machine Project
Here’s a rant, for your delectation, or distaste: This month (Jan. 2010) MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. USA) kicks off a five year, five-million dollar (at least) research orgy called the Mind Machine Project (MMP). Machine Mind = Artificial intelligence (AI). Now there’s a concept. Oh wait. We tried that, what? Fifty years [...]

The advance of swarm intelligence