Expression Ecrite Les trois lois d'asimov en Anglais

« Antoni Mbizi 1ere1 Expression Ecrite : In 1941, when the scientist and science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov defined his Three Laws of robotics in his story “Runaround”, he envisaged a world where these humanoids robots would act as servants and would need a set of 3 fundamental laws. First Law : A robot must not injure a human being or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law : A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law : A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. But 8 decades later, since the publication of his story to submit his ethical guidelines, there have been significant technological advancements like artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, etc.

Today, we now have a very different conception of what robots can look like and how we will interact with them.

That leads us to ask ourselves the question: Are the Three Laws of Robotics applicable today? First of all, without getting into the heart of the matter of laws.

Let's take a technical perspective of the issue, about understanding rules for a machine.

For example, what if the laws are in English and one robot only processes Chinese? Or even if the robot was made in the United States, how do we know it understands the laws? We would therefore need a way to translate the laws and convey the meaning behind the words into every language possible to cover all possibilities, dead languages like Latin as well as binary machine language must also be used.

For human beings, these tasks are obvious.

On the other hand, for a machine, these are two very different tasks.

The first task refers to producing corresponding sentence strings in different languages, while the second one consists of understanding those strings.

For human beings, these tasks are obvious.

But, for a machine, these are two very different tasks.

The first task refers to producing corresponding sentence strings in different languages, while the second one consists of understanding those strings.

Doing only the first task is if I tell you to sing a song with the lyrics in Spanish, you may say the words well, but you have no idea what they mean.

On the other side, doing only the second task is like having an idea in your mind but not knowing how to phrase it.

Yes, machines can understand languages today.

Although, there still a lot they cannot do. Now, I mentioned technical difficulties.

Let's see about law issues.

When Asimov proposed those laws, he based them on another assumption that we, humans, knew where the ethical lines were to be drawn.

But do robots know? Let us take, for example, the word "harm" from the first law.

Let's also consider the word "human being" in the same law.

What does its definition cover? Nowadays, a fetus’ right to. »