{"id":1188,"date":"2008-01-21T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/21\/the-robots-lie\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:50:48","slug":"the-robots-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/the-robots-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robots Lie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don&#8217;t swill beer or put bends in girders&#8211;they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans:The team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology created the little experimental learning devices to work in groups and hunt for &#8220;food&#8221; targets nearby while avoiding &#8220;poison.&#8221; Imagine their surprise when one generation of robots learned to signal lies about the poison, sending opponents to their doom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/346029\/scientists-invent-robots-that-lie-real-bender-closer-than-ever\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don&#8217;t swill beer or put bends in girders&#8211;they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans:The team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/the-robots-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Robots Lie!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-ja","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}