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Originally Posted by Betonov
I don't trust machines without a control 
I know where you're getting at with the smart AI, but we achieved so much with scientist and engineers banging their heads together with help from super calculators. We already have super brains, we don't need an artificial super brain. |
We're starting to reach the limits of our abilities though. Perhaps this is a good thing, perhaps we're not destined to reach as far as I have envisioned, certainly you could make a strong arguement that we are not ready for the singularity. Nevertheless, unimpeded, our scientific rate of discovery will inevitably reach the point where man and machine collide.
In fact, looking ahead at the climatic change we face, intelligent machines may be the only thing that can save us by assisting our work to adapt to our new climate. There's a helluva lot of major cities by the coast, someone's going to need to build new cities for the people who will be displaced by rising sea levels. Machine workers could do the job rapidly, nano-machines (son) could create cities out of deserts, and change building dimensions on demand. They would be invaluable for the creation of off-world habitats.
Of course, they are also a huge threat, you're right to not trust them, some of the greatest scientific minds are collectively soiling their pants at the possibility of our spot at the top of the food chain being replaced by sentient robots. Heck, even nano-machines, un-sentient little cellular robots, can completely screw us up if programmed wrong.
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I think though, the ultimate answer will lie somewhere in the middle, not relying solely on sentient machines, but also upgrading ourselves at the same time. However, that being said, ultimately there's only so much you can upgrade the human body before you're no longer human.
This is one of the reasons I've enjoyed the latest Deus Ex game, it's set in that period of adjustment, where man/machine hybridisation is becoming commonplace, and yet because of the fallibility of mankind it has not resulted in utopia, but in a dystopic continuation of the present day.
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Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves
The Six Million Dollar Man comes to mind.
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