Three Laws of Robotics that might prevent the rise of machines.

Isac Asimov.

When you first thing about robot having intelligence who comes in you mind I bet its Arnold schwarzenegger from the movie series 'Terminator'. You might have heard these three laws of robotics that we are about to discuss, in many films like Automata, I-robot etc. This laws was first written by Isac Asimov. 

Isac Asimov lived between 1920 to 1992 born at Petrovichi near Klimovichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russia to Anna Rachel (Berman) Asimov and Judah Asimov, a family of Jewish millers. 

Asimov was an american author and professor of biochemistry in Boston university.He is well know for his works in science fiction novels. He wrote more than 500 books and roughly 90,000 letters and post cards in his whole life. Today he is remembered for his three laws of robotic described in his novel "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D." Those three laws are:

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 the orders given 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 Laws.

The writer might have given a deep thought into the future that when the machines gain the intelligence, what could go wrong. May be that's why he set-up those rules/laws for any robot or machine having an artificial intelligence in his novel. 

An machine today is said to be acting intelligently when

• what it does is appropriate for its circumstances and its goals,
• it is flexible to changing environments and changing goals,
• it learns from experience, and
• it makes appropriate choices given its perceptual and computational limitations. An machine typically cannot observe the state of the world directly; it has only a finite memory and it does not have unlimited time to act.

May be  future we might be able to remove the last point and mimic total human intelligence at machine level.But these laws are made by the writer so that the machines having intelligence should not reach to a point that they don't need human or simply overtake humans because of superiority over humans. 

If all the laws applied to human kind except a variation in second law, the world would have been a better place. We could have been 200 years ahead in future where we don't waste our time and resources building weapons to fight inter specie war. We could have been a better rational beings than being a destroyer specie of the planet.

Variation of second law for Humans

'A human must consider a request given by other fellow human being, except where such request would not conflict with the first law.'

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