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Robots can learn how to lie!

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est:
That is an awesome comic, Ally!

As for the article, I am really unsure what this tells us other than one or a few bots in colony 4 randomly evolved to act in the opposite fashion to the other bots.  It could be lighting up to warn others that it is poison, rather than the other way around.  That and the "hero" bot both sound more like unfortunate mutations than malicious/heroic intent.

Scandanavian War Machine:
i always had a feeling that i would live to see the apocalypse; now i know.

i can't wait. not fearing for my life is so boring.

Slick:
We do need to remember that we are interpreting results as we see them. It could just as easily be thought that the sneaky 'lie' bot was a murder bot. It's just a robot that reacts to the way the other robots react such that it manages to get a lot of food.

I would say that the colony is what is learning, since individuals 'die' and are reborn with each generation, meaning individuals do not change their responses at all. Evolution is a much better word to use than learning.

Nodaisho:
From the article, I thought there were different ways for it to light up, and that it would give the food signal for poison.

How long would it take the robots to learn violence when they find out about the liars? Generations, or would there already be some sort of self-preservation programmed in that would extend to getting rid of untrustworthy robots?

ImRonBurgundy?:
Oh holy Christ, when they start seeing the liar robots getting rammed at full speed by all the other robots, or perhaps ganging up to push one of them into a poison patch, that's when we'll know the human race's days are numbered.

That said, bringing about the end of times is worth it just to be able to watch that happen.  This is fascinating.

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