Google developing ‘kill switch’ to stop robot uprising against humans

“Safe interruptibility can be useful to take control of a robot that is misbehaving and may lead to irreversible consequences, or to take it out of a delicate situation, or even to temporarily use it to achieve a task it did not learn to perform or would not normally receive rewards for this.””

Google developing ‘kill switch’ to stop robot uprising against humans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/08/google-developing-kill-switch-to-stop-robot-uprising-against-hum/
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What If the Robot Utopia Leads to an Existential Crisis for Humans?

“At first, when the machines take over the economy, Bill is stoked. He wakes up late every morning, smokes some 22nd century weed and then watches TV. Eventually, he gets bored. His degree in accounting has become worthless, because there is nothing he could do that couldn’t be done better by a machine. Bill plugs his brain into a virtual world, becomes obsessed with killing dragons and winning digital gold, and dies shriveled and alone as a level 900 paladin.”

What If the Robot Utopia Leads to an Existential Crisis for Humans?
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-if-the-robot-utopia-leads-to-an-existential-crisis-for-humans
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An open letter to Tesla and Google on driverless cars (very good points here)

“Here is my brutal truth to the great minds of Tesla and Google: You don’t have the assets or human power to create a driverless society on your own. The software algorithms required for driverless cars will never be complete and will involve constant maintenance; therefore, you will need to move to an open data and open source community in order to achieve the goal of the driverless society.”

An open letter to Tesla and Google on driverless cars
http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/06/01/an-open-letter-to-tesla-and-google-on-driverless-cars/
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