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July 01, 2009

1st AI-Powered RoboScientist Created -A Galaxy Classic

Artificial_intelligence The rise of the robots hasn't resulted in a murderous rampage quite yet, but it has reaped an enormous toll on low-level jobs.  Assembly lines, farms, factories - the machines have taken over millions of man-hours, but now the scientists have surpassed those systems and begun to make themselves obsolete.  Because Adam is online - and he's a scientist.

UK researchers hooked up an experiment-designing program to all the automated equipment needed to do its own lab work.  This isn't arrays of repetitive tasks, although Adam can do that no problem, this is real science. 

The Adam system was basically told "go look at yeast" and successfully theorized, experimented, analyzed and refined its results from start to finish.  Other automated assistants have the humans coming back asking "Did you do what I told you?"  Adam is asked "What did you do?"

The system is completely self-starting, only needing human fleshbags to bring supplies - and not to sound alarmist, but some day it's going to work out that other machines are far better at that.  There's even an electronic Eve, an upgraded system built by the same researchers using their experience with Adam, their improved skills, and apparently no sense of impending doom or biblical metaphor whatsoever.

Summary:  An artificially intelligent Adam and Eve already exist, and are in charge of a cyber-genetics laboratory.  Somebody needs to make a movie about this immediately - if they want to make money before the real deal kills us all.

Posted by Luke McKinney.

AI Adam and Eve

Comments

EvilCosmicMonkeyfrom Knoxville

Great - more fear - mongering about robots / A.I. possibly going berserk. We have less to fear about a possible " Skynet " Or a " Colossus " than from human terrorists, or humans just plain being incompetent.

At its best, AI systems like Adam & Eve will complement human efforts.

"After the attacks on the Colonies, we comforted ourselves with the thought that the Cylons were a flawed creation. WE are also a flawed creation " - Cmdr. Bill Adama, Battlestar Galactica mini - series.


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