Say hello to your new robot masters
 

The level of communication happening here seems really cool: http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan...arn-how-to-lie

Is it really a good thing that robots can lie now?

Not necessarily. Then again, they can only fool their robot peers, as far as we know. Perhaps listening to a robot lie is like listening to a 5 year old do the same, it's pretty easy to figure out it's all false.

This is extremely dangerous. Just the fact that robots are being set up to "evolve" is putting them on the same footing with humans. Right now we are above them on the food change, but their digital evolution could change that in the future.

Theoretically, if they evolve like humans and end up wiping us out, isn't it jsut as likely for them to create a new breed which will wipe them out, creating a spiral of destructive evolution?
Either way, this is really cool stuff, hopefully it won't lead to anything malign.

But they only evolve with human intervention. Without us, they stay at the same level they're at.

Unless we bring them to a point where they're capable of doing it themselves. Find program, streamline program, merge programs, streamline merged programs, repeat ad nauseum.

Funny thing is, that already exists. I think its an 80 line program in LISP.