OpenMind creates "Hive mind" for robots that could share skills and knowledge across a variety of robot forms. But I have questions?

[eclipsenow]

Hi guys,
This sounds cool - possibly dangerous - if it actually works.

I'm wondering if you've heard about how OM1 is actually meant to work?
I've been a bit distracted by political stuff - and can't geek out and research this for now.

Is it just the robot sharing data during it's day while it operates and decides things locally?
Or is it actually a cloud OS for the robot - meaning it cannot function independently without internet access - or might even be limited in response times to certain crises?

If operated by the cloud - and not just sharing data by the cloud - surely that would slow down the robot's speed and utility?

 

[jacks]

When I watch robots playing soccer, I cease to worry.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Hi guys,
This sounds cool - possibly dangerous - if it actually works.

I'm wondering if you've heard about how OM1 is actually meant to work?
I've been a bit distracted by political stuff - and can't geek out and research this for now.

Is it just the robot sharing data during it's day while it operates and decides things locally?
Or is it actually a cloud OS for the robot - meaning it cannot function independently without internet access - or might even be limited in response times to certain crises?

If operated by the cloud - and not just sharing data by the cloud - surely that would slow down the robot's speed and utility?

As long as they don't call it Skynet will we be OK?

 

[Gregory Thompson]

As long as people in Boston don't start getting replaced by synths, probably nothing to worry about.

 

[AV1611VET]

When I watch robots playing soccer, I cease to worry.

I wonder what will come first: the Forbin project or Fahrenheit 451?

 

[eclipsenow]

When I watch robots playing soccer, I cease to worry.

Yes - but humans sleep.
If it gained some weird hive mind intelligence and corrupted AI imperative - even one of those cute little guys could climb up with a sharp kitchen knife and quietly slit everyone's throat.

Then again, now imagine one of these, which can zoom downhill but normally do about 11 mph...

... fitted out like one of these ...

- but with the gun being compacted into the body and emerging out the nose? Whatever it loses in rifle size, it makes up for by the fact that no human can outrun the faster droid.

Or there's this thing - fitted with capture nets. What if little guns stuck out the side of it instead?

Who would build them? Today's militaries and police forces. Look at Ukraine.
A few cheap $500 drones fitted with grenades take out $3.5 million Russian tanks!

But if they get infected with some sort of hive mind somehow, ouch.

Or even just fit the little drone with a single shot - and have it fly right up to all your enemy's heads!

Or according to the famous AI 2027 scenario - the geopolitics between America and China means the AI arms race gets to the point where the economics is astonishingly expensive of upgrading all this so we actually hand over whole factories and labs - basically a military industrial complex - to the super Ai's to keep building out themselves. Ai's working droids that are building the industrial hardware of both the economy, the energy, the next server farms, and the next generation of droids - all iteratively and exponentially increasing in scale and intelligence.

Then - super-bug!