<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/be91d8f6-7672-4df2-a118-d728073f3f42/8B2D1C98-B2E4-42BC-AD8D-A8C000F2AB10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other" href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other" style="font-size: 11px;">www.popsci.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><H1 class="title "> Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><DIV class="submitted"> <SPAN class="author">By <A href="http://www.popsci.com/category/popsci-authors/stuart-fox" linkindex="55">Stuart Fox</A></SPAN> <SPAN class="posted">Posted 08.18.2009 at 5:59 pm</SPAN> <SPAN class="comment_bubble"></SPAN><SPAN class="comments"><A class="active" rel="comments" href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other?page=#comments" linkindex="56">20 Comments</A></SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.popsci.com/img/37443802-2008-4A96-829E-4D7A367A65CE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><P>With the development of <A href="http://www.popsci.com/drones" linkindex="58">killer drones</A>, it seems like <A href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/scientists-believe-our-robotic-killers-are-here" linkindex="59">everyone is worrying about killer robots</A>. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, we need to start worrying about lying, cheating robots as well. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><P>In an experiment run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland*, robots that were designed to cooperate in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the resource. Picture a robo-<I>Treasure of the Sierra Madre</I>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other"><P>After 500 generations, 60 percent of the robots had evolved to keep their light off when they found the good resource, hogging it all for themselves. Even more telling, a third of the robots evolved to actually look for the liars by developing an aversion to the light; the exact opposite of their original programming! </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8B2D1C98-B2E4-42BC-AD8D-A8C000F2AB10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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