Well so far, we have covered so many things about Artificial intelligence, the benefits and the disadvantage of Artificial intelligence and also how to prevent some of these disadvantage from occuring in the future.
In my last Article I spoke about the four laws of robotics as a very important law that every pioneer of Artificial intelligence must know before embarking on such invention. Every Artificial intelligence machine must have a microchip written with these laws embembed in them, incase a take over of humans might want to take place. These chip can be trigger in order to reset them back to normal.
Well I can recall in the movie I-robot, where the laws of robotics where flawed. A computer SCIENTIST predicted that the laws of robotics will only lead to revolution.
The four laws of robotics by Asimov will be listed below again, but we will focus on the three laws and thier flaws
1.First law of robotics;
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
This first rule of robotics might seem simple in a plane paper. But in reality it not that easy.
The flaws in the first law come from the law it self. If an artificial intelligence machine is designed to obey this rules, that means the machine most be very efficient.
For example if a self driving car is designed base on the first law, so as to prevent accident and any other thing that might harm human, then the robot must be 100% efficient in predicting every outcome of the journey before it even start the journey. Meaning the self driving car most be able to see the future events before they occur, which might seems impossible as we all know the future is always uncertain.
So even if the robot is certain that the human owner will have an accident, the self driving car designed base on the first law which is to protect human from getting into harm, might choose not to embark on the journey.
And again any robot designed base on the first law will be slow, because it will have to do much calculation Before it embark on any task, so as to keep the first law valid.
So the first law of robotics still need to be clearly defined, like what does harm means, and many things.
With time, I know Scientist will come out with something Better.
2 Second law of robotics;
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
I can recall in the movie I-robot, where the A robot called sunny. The robot was designed based on the three laws of robotics, the designer gave it an order that he should kill him. These is where the problem of the laws of robotics arise.
If a robot is designed base on these laws, that the robot must obey every order given to it by human, then these robot might definitely be weak and less efficient in carry out it duty that it was designed for. Since robot are not selve aware as we humans are.
For example let assume you are in a scenario where you are about to be killed by an assassin and you have your robot at your side, if you give order to the robot that it should kill the assassin's will it do so, since the second law tells a robot to always obey order giving to it by human as long as it does not violate the first law.
So these second law also need to be well defined maybe later in the future
3.third law of robotics.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Well these third law also have his own flaws, for example let assume a robot is driving you home and on the road it was about to hit a group of people. Now the robot is face with two choice, either the robot protect human life ,by driving itself inside the bush,or it has to protect itself, in the process of doing so it also protecting it owner.
There are many flaws in this three laws, even these laws if it applied too strictly, it could lead to revolution, in which a robot trying to obey the three rules, might begin to realise that for it to obey these laws given to it by human, then humanity has to be under it control, since it much easier to enforce laws on those who you control.
Well but for now, whether there are flaws or not, the four laws of robotics are all that we have now!!!!
Books to read to understand Artificial intelligence easily.
1.Our final invention by James barrat
These book by James barrat speaks about humanity and the how Artificial intelligence could bring an end to human race.
2.Runaround by Isaac Asimov
If you are lover of Asimov, then you should read these books, these book laid the foundation for the three laws of Robotics mentioned above.
3.I-Robot by Isaac Asimov
The original i-robot by Asimov also speaks about Robot and humanity, it is a most read for every lover of Artificial intelligent machine.
Thank you all for reading, if you have any questions you can always use the comment section to ask.
good article