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What would a robot see if it looked at a necker cube?

 
 
Gilbey
 
Reply Mon 4 Feb, 2008 04:08 pm
Would a robot be able to distinguish between the two different ways in which the necker cube can be seen? Or would the robot be deceived by only being able to see it one way?

You could ask do robots have the same quality of "perception", as we do, in a sense that we are only able to give it sensory perception as good as our own?

Obviously robots don't perceive things like we do, but could one distinguish and compute the necker cube?
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Chumly
 
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Reply Mon 4 Feb, 2008 08:37 pm
Philip K. Dick asked "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Asimov's three laws:

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Necker Cube:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 07:47 am
I suspect a robot/computer would see a collection of polygons. It would not attempt to extrapolate a three-dimensional figure.
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OGIONIK
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 04:41 pm
they will most likely have multiple ways of deciphering their environment, sonar, radar, lasers, etc.

as well as light. which would probablly be more useful to humans than the robot.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 02:26 am
Chumly wrote:
Philip K. Dick asked "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Asimov's three laws:

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Necker Cube:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube

These laws wud have robots wage war against us,
to rule us, for our own good, as calculated by the robot, substituting its judgement for ours.
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