Summary Facebook machines had spoken in their own language was exciting but also bewildering
(Web Desk) — A robot expert said the revelation that Facebook machines had spoken in their own language was exciting — but also incredibly scary.
UK Robotics Professor Kevin Warwick said: “This is an incredibly important milestone, but anyone who thinks this is not dangerous has got their head in the sand.”
“We do not know what these bots are saying. Once you have a robot that has the ability to do something physically, particularly military bots, this could unequivocally be lethal.
“If one says, ‘Why not do this,’ and the other says ‘Yes’ and it’s a military bot, you have a serious situation.
“This is the first recorded communication but there will have been many more unrecorded.”
“Smart devices right now have the ability to communicate and although we think we can monitor them, we have no way of knowing.”
Most notably, Stephen Hawking has already warned against the dangers of deferring to Artificial Intelligence.
Keeping in view, the incident closely resembles the plot of The Terminator wherein a robot becomes self-aware and starts waging a war on humans. The Facebook incident apparently echoes of the same storyline to movie; The Terminator. One can safely imagine the situation pertains to hegemonic control of electronic devices. This would be considered a threat to humanity after subduing nature by man partly. With the increase of human tendency to the gadgets or other electronic devices, man is losing his intelligence gradually by installing that into robots. The doom day is seemingly near when robots would be more morally correct than that of humans in the theory of Man vs Machine.
Moreover, Facebook researchers, in New York, have recently set up “chatbots” Alice and Bob in a bid to develop automated trouble-shooters for social media networks.
Let us see how far productivity of it becomes in the time to come.
