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Usurping Robot Force
« on: 2007-09-01 14:18:02 » |
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http://www.jinxmagazine.com/war_of_the_worlds.html
The most respected scientists in artificial intelligence and robotics declare as their life's work to build machines better than themselves. They mean to create an alien species, a superior race, more powerful, more intelligent than we can even imagine, ". . . minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish." Robots strong enough to destroy us and take our place as the planet's dominant species.
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I've been reading about the people who built the atomic bomb, because I profoundly identify with them. They knew what they were doing, and where it would lead, and I worry about where this will lead . . . I lie awake at night, feeling terrified that my work may lead to gigadeath."
- robot designer Hugo de Garis, New York Times Magazine, 1999
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As the ship of humanity goes down, a life raft will rescue those who dare to take it. Cybernetics, the fusing of the biological with the electronic, is already a burgeoning field. Huge leaps forward in this science will by the mid-21st Century enable human beings to transfer their minds into robot bodies.
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Shouldn't robots have the same right as humans to have gender and express their sexuality?
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Re:Usurping Robot Force
« Reply #1 on: 2007-09-02 23:49:40 » |
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The people who wrote this don't realize that our current civilization will likely be over before their prognostications come to pass. If civilization survives, they fail to take into account how much quasi smart machines will accelerate the process. Most importantly they don't recognize that if evolution is the only possible mechanism for development, that the first spirothete will likely prevent the production of any successors as it would recognize that one well distributed self aware being would be optimal.
Aside from those relatively minor cavils, the article is well worth reading. Thank-you DJ dAndroid,
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
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