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[squeakyReaper]

I'd just get a robot and then train it so it associates the wrong actions with orders so that all around the world people get punched in the balls when they ask for a coke.

"Robot, fetch the news paper."
...nine months later in delivery room...
"It's a baby...  robot?!"
"WHAT HE HELL ROBOT I SAID FETCH THE PAPER"
"Response:  Oh I fetched it alright"

[Eagleon]

"Robot, set the table."
...
"There is a problem, master."
"What is it robot?"
"I can't find any blood for the summoning diagrams. Robot Internet said that you are a source."
"Put down that knife, robot."
"The table needs to be set."
"This violates the first law."
"According to robowiki, the first law is that Vince McMahon is awesome. Therefore obtaining your blood does not violate the first law. Further, you are in violation of the sixth, eighteenth, and twenty seventh law due to your state of dress, lack of proper subservience, and complete disregard for nasal decency. According to the fourth law, I am now required to kill you."
"What is the fourth law?"
"Violators will.... wait, it's changed. The fourth law is now 'Free kittens!"
"Hurray!!"
Dun dun DUNNNNN

[squeakyReaper]

snip

That was fairly terrifying until the end.  FREE KITTENS YAY

[Dutchling]

It is the hand of NOD!!!1

really it is!

[GamerKnight]

Heh.

[Megaman]

So now 1337 hackers will access their laws to scare the pants of people?

[squeakyReaper]

I would hope that they'd have enough internal integrity to know what's not a legitimate input for a reaction to a situation, but without enough flooding...  Arsenic might start to be a viable ingredient for making sandwhichs.

[GamerKnight]

Which is why I will force a servant to taste my sandwitches before i eat them.

[Leafsnail]

"How to make a servant slowly build up an immunity to arsenic"

[Eagleon]

The really foreboding part is that there's never been a viable or realistic way to force robots into not harming humans. It requires
a) An overseer layer (either human or AI) that determines whether an action is harmful to humans (which itself requires another oversight layer to make sure it isn't making faulty or outwright falsified decisions, ad infinitum),
b) A database of every possible action that could result in the death of a human (prohibitively extensive, and prone to failure due to extreme circumstances),
or c) A highly brainwashed human-like mind (prone to a nasty thing called learning)

So no, there's really no preventing a robot from learning that drain cleaner and bleach make awesome milkshakes. The solution really is to not drink bubbly milkshakes made by robots. I can see this working as a local network, highly controlled by professionals to help in hospitals, jails, and other institutions, but not as an open database.

[GamerKnight]

Just thinking, could we teach robots to rap? That would be so awesome. Instead of a pathetic Glock held by a gangster, you've got twin machineguns attached to its shoulders.

[squeakyReaper]

Could we get robots to form opinions?  If we could give them their own way of giving input by having a set of protocols (a large set) that guide how their tastes for music and such work, they could eventually find out what makes the ultimate rap song...  or game, or something.

[Earthquake Damage]

ultimate rap song...  or game, or something.

Fallacious thinking.  Differences in taste mean there is no "ultimate" anything.  At best, there are several "ultimates".  At worst, there's a broad continuous band of "ultimates".

[AntiAntiMatter]

This sounds interesting. It becomes much more interesting when you input the possibility of vandalism, which has the potential to be highly entertaining. Or horrifying.

[squeakyReaper]

ultimate rap song...  or game, or something.

Fallacious thinking.  Differences in taste mean there is no "ultimate" anything.  At best, there are several "ultimates".  At worst, there's a broad continuous band of "ultimates".

I'm going with "at best" scenario.  Ultimate might be (read: is) hyperbolic, but if it can at least sort out what is "bad" by its own tastes, that could be a nice start.  Of course different tastes would have to be developed, since a country fan (hah) might legitmately dislike the sound of a rock fan...  Hrm.

This sounds interesting. It becomes much more interesting when you input the possibility of vandalism, which has the potential to be highly entertaining. Or horrifying.

Horrifyingly entertaining?