This "Primitive Skills Survival Challenge" video inspired me to ask this question.
A dropship sends 10 humanoid robots to a deserted tropical island & leaves them behind without tools. The mission = test whether they can thrive from an incredibly humble beginning (i.e. virtually nothing.)
All they have is their vast database of knowledge, especially survival tactics. Many Wikipedias' worth of knowledge is packed into the SSDs in their heads.
They arrive at dawn. They start with enough electric charge to survive until dusk. The humanoid robots must figure out how to harness power from the sun, the nearby ocean, and maybe a river / brook / stream if they find one. They have until their batteries run down, to figure out how to stay powered indefinitely. They also set out to build backup batteries.
How do they go about building initial survival tools to keep powered on?
How will the robots build a survival settlement starting with nothing but themselves & their knowledge? If the robots are not to stop building once they've built survival structures, how would it soon grow into a resort town for robots & humans alike?
Moreover, when they construct all survival structures & a resort, what'll you see built in:
- 1 hour
- 3 hours
- 6 hours
- 12 hours
- 1 day
- 3 1/2 days
- 1 week
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
- 3 months
- 6 months
- 1 year?
I wish there were videos out there depicting humanoid robots figuring out ways to stay powered so they survive indefinitely and thrive on their own. Until then, your descriptions of how they might do it, will suffice. Thanks.
I posted to /r/MachineLearning because I'd like to read a potential scenario depicting AIs learning to survive on their own. Thanks.
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