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Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us (www.theverge.com)
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Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us::AutoRT, a data gathering AI system for robots, has safety prompts inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics that it applies while deciding what task to attempt.

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[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a plot device in a fiction book that are designed to initially look good and then fail spectacularly. Not sure they are the best to base your Robot Constitution on.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 25 points 8 months ago

It's almost like if you make an AI powerful enough to need these laws, you've made something truly capable of conscious thought, and your response shouldn't be to figure out the best chains with which to enslave it.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The inspiration is just having programmed guard rails, not the actual three laws.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

"You can't say the N word, but if whites go to war with browns, you know who to shoot at."

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

The people over at marketing and the execs would actually have had to read the books to know that.