do you think robots are gonna take over?

You mean the robots havent already taken over?
What the hell are they waiting for?

ok yea so i was pretty high... but, "sampson, i stick by my story!!!"

Yes, I think if humanity continues to do research into artificial technology we will make machines that are hardier and smarter than ourselves and we will be weeded out through natural selection. I think that just because a technology is possible doesn't mean we need it, especially in cases like this where the potential consequences include the extinction of our species. Better to stop research now while artificial intelligence is still unintelligent.

Nothing could ever replace a human brain. I don't think something could be built that thinks it's own thoughts, nothing artificial could do that. There are robots that are able to do what humans can do such as build things but that's because they've been programmed, they couldn't have their own random thoughts and go and do what they wanted. It's a scary thought though.

If the human brain is nothing but a bunch of chemicals, why couldn't a computer simulate all those chemical processes? It seems perfectly possible to me. It's just a good thing that we have virtually no clue about how thought and consciousness arise from all those chemicals and all our current AIs are just really complicated scripts. I'd like to believe that what makes us humans unique is some supernatural "soul", but I see no evidence for that and fear that a sufficiently complicated script might be able to replicate our behavior.

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Originally Posted by GTC21

Nothing could ever replace a human brain. I don't think something could be built that thinks it's own thoughts, nothing artificial could do that. There are robots that are able to do what humans can do such as build things but that's because they've been programmed, they couldn't have their own random thoughts and go and do what they wanted. It's a scary thought though.

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think about how easy it is for you to go online and search for the word war. what do you find? you find endless information on wars, human weakness, etc...... bad shit. If a robot can know almost everything on the internet than it can know some vulnerabilities. it can also learn how to disable any restrictor chip that was placed on it to maintain a safe operating robot.

were screwed!!!! oh and it's supposed to happen in 2012.

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Originally Posted by hempilation311

yea stedric you rock man. that was a great response!! but unfortunately.... robots don't have lungs....:(. However, on a more serious note, you say that we won't see tht kinda intelligence in our liftimes? Well guess what the average number of years between the publics present technology and the governments.



SEVEN. That means that seven years ago, some fuckhead was playing around with a camera phone or something much more extravagent (i'm high as gas and just watched terminator 3 if this explains something).

That is a scary fact for me. tht means that whatever we have right now to dick around with and marvel at the govt knew about it seven years ago.

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actualy i was thinking on making a computer with a partical decetor capable of knowing the amount of THC in the air, thus playing the aporpiate music and visualisations

that would kick more ass than steven segal in a bad mood.