Wow, cool! This is awesomely fascinating stuff. I Ron Arkin, because he seems to really care about the ethics and complexities of robots, and thinks they can really work with humans. He even talks about the curious subject of robots learning how to trust or not trust humans
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But what's to stop a Doctor Wily from re-programming it or making his own?This comes up, under a different context, in the Lensman series, in that any system of identification that the Galactic Patrol could come up with could be counterfeited by the 'bad guys'. We already have jackasses spamming the internet with hacks just because they CAN- how much worse will it be when that hacking extends to Reploid 'ghosts', or to the systems that control them? I imagine the security protocols would need to be INCREDIBLY airtight, like whatever must exist around airports for the navigation towers, which is a challenge, because a future-Reploid or humanoid robot would probably need access to a wireless web for humans to give it instructions and for it to give feedback to the humans. And if it has any open ports, those ports are vulnerable. I suppose something like a constantly-rotating signal frequency range, where the open communication port is variable inside the software, a sort of 'virtual port' that shifts every so often, would slow down
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I imagine the security protocols would need to be INCREDIBLY airtight, like whatever must exist around airports for the navigation towers, which is a challenge, because a future-Reploid or humanoid robot would probably need access to a wireless web for humans to give it instructions and for it to give feedback to the humans.
Exactly - which is the critical problem. We first need to develop a revolutionary security system, something that makes it very hard to hack, before we can make these machines.
Personally, I think reploids already have this system - I prefer reploid's minds to be a 'hallowed ground', something very hard to hack into, so it's more shocking when someone does. That's what makes the Maverick Virus so scary to reploids - it can do what is otherwise impossible, break the unbreakable.
Humans, with their own free will, have proven no more 'tamper proof' than any future machine would be. *points at Virginia Tech* We can also be 'reprogrammed', either by brainwashing, torture or by use of chemicals to sedate or
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Exactly - which is the critical problem. We first need to develop a revolutionary security system, something that makes it very hard to hack, before we can make these machines.
Personally, I think reploids already have this system - I prefer reploid's minds to be a 'hallowed ground', something very hard to hack into, so it's more shocking when someone does. That's what makes the Maverick Virus so scary to reploids - it can do what is otherwise impossible, break the unbreakable.
Humans, with their own free will, have proven no more 'tamper proof' than any future machine would be. *points at Virginia Tech* We can also be 'reprogrammed', either by brainwashing, torture or by use of chemicals to sedate or ( ... )
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