Both things (while incredibly useful ) should be limited at best or destroyed at worse (In my own opinion of course).
The Nano tech because it could cause a 'grey blob' situation , wherein the only possible solution would be to manually cause a Electromagnetic Pulse to knock it out . Not taking into account the ungodly amount of damage it could cause .
It all matters if the AI gains sentience and then realises it's potential , if so then we humans have a serious problem. I doubt that we'll be dealing with 'Johnny Five' more like 'Johnny the lap-dog of the military in control of WMDs'
its just that AI would operate on pure logic, right? and the logical conclusion, assuming it could procreate, would be that mankind is irrational illogical and thus a constant threat....not to mention having no purpose for being. but then again it may come to the conclusion that it also has no purpose for being and just switch off.
i cant help but suspect that an AI would have the ability to modify its own programming to adapt, grow, and improve itself. or it wouldnt very much be intelligent, would it?
One of many interesting sites on the possible future of artificial intelligence: www.singinst.org
That aside, one ought to keep the following in mind: intelligence is not the same as consciousness or motivation. While scifi has long loved to depict AI as eventually, logically and inevitably antihuman, this in actual fact remains to be seen. Personally, I don't necessarily buy that Hello-AI-Goodbye-Humanity schpiel.
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Ohh one of my all time favorites was AI...It made me cry, not that you all care. All the boy wanted was his mommy to love him.........................
If Nano tech were so intelligent, then they would learn and adapt to the point that humans would be considered inferior and useless.......I suppose they could be used in some instances, but I feel it is something NOT to fool around with....It could even start a "They are different then us", and conspiracies could come from it.......*Hmm watches too many Sci-Fi movies*
I am 100% for both. The potential is certainly there, where as it is only a lot of dubious scare mongering "ifs" that suggest it should be limited or that it is a threat to life as we know it.
It just is very unlikely to work the way it does in sci-fi. And even if it did - if it was sentient it deserves to be mankind's equal. The idea that machines are inherently destined to hate us... just no.
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Well strangely enough I can't remember the last time my coffee maker or computer killed me because I spelt a word wrong or added to many beans.
And of course the most illogical thing about that statement is... there is no proof of such. A man gets killed because he sticks his arms in a wheat thresher - human stupidity, not machine malice.
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Sep 14th, 2006 03:39 PM
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