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The Fourth Law (of Robotics) – Part I: the Simple Problems

Overview This article deals with some commonsense, basic problems immediately discernible upon close inspection of the Laws. The next article in this series will analyse the Laws from a few vantage points: philosophy, artificial intelligence and some systems theories.

An immediate question springs to mind: HOW will a robot identify a human being? Surely, in a future of perfect androids, constructed of organic materials, no superficial, outer scanning will suffice. Structure and composition will not be sufficient factors of differentiation. There are two ways to settle this very practical issue: one is to endow the robot with the ability to conduct a Converse Turing Test, the other is to somehow "barcode" all the robots by implanting some signalling device inside them. Both present additional difficulties.

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Publisher	Lidija Rangelovska Narcissus Publications	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	20
Format	White Papers
Topics	Artificial Intelligence

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