Researchers create robots that can learn to lie and deceive, on purpose

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a Comment Teaching robots to find “food” and share it with others seems like a fairly worthwhile and noble endeavor, no? Well, it apparently wasn’t quite enough for a group of researchers from Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, who had the bright idea to to augment said robots with a new artificial neural network that let the robots learn a host of new abilities — namely, scheming, lying and deceiving. Apparently, in their

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