Remember the robo-dog AMEE from the movie Red Planet?

[Skybird]

Well, wer are getting closer to it. Its about the film material shown, not the comment (I did not even listen in, have some problems with my headphone wires here).



Question is how long mankind can keep such things under control. Even more so when AI one day reveals it is self-aware. The perfect neural network to allow this, maybe is already there - the WWW.

Man may find answers to why he wants to need such machines. But the one question that worries me slowly more and more is - what do such machines and AI need man for anymore - once they build and code themselves? The world-wide web is not called for no reason the world-wide web.

As a race and civilization, we seriously lack to reflect over some vital implications, always just doing new tehc stuff becasue it can be done. Whether it is wise to do it, we do not care as long as the stock values score high. But actually we may risk our heads and necks there , and do not even realise it.

[Gargamel]

The singularity is a long way off. And when it happens, it won't be in one of these robots, but in a mainframe somewhere. A robot is the least of our concerns if an AI becomes hostile.

[Rockstar]

I want one!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

I want one!

Me too, I grow tired of walking the one I have

[Skybird]

That thing sooner or later will be hopelessly superior in body skill and robustness. Yiu only wan tone as loing as it has no will of its own. But I wonder: We say "Life always finds a way". Maybe we must formulate differently. "Mind always finds a way."

What we talk of when talking of AI, is an alien mind/life form. As alien as something from outer space. We have zero reason to assume that this whatever-it-is will be this or that, will be friendly or hostile to us. But we know what happens on Earth when s superior civilization or life form meets an inferior one. The first eats the latter. Even more so when the inferior one nevertheless has a minor chance to cause troubles - then it is a threat. And threats must be eradicated.

If that scenario would come true, then I assume we have lousy chances to survive. Last but not least because we might not even relaise that we are being attacked by a supöerior life/mind form, a superior intelligence for which all information in the world is as natural to deal with as for us is to to comb our hair.

The problem with superiror intelligence is that inferior intelligence probably would not recognise it as such. Would not even be aware of it's existence and presence.

There is no reasonable aerugment why we shoukld assume that an AI we create, intentionally or unintentionally, necessarily will be or will remain to stay friendly to us. I think it is mor eliekly it sooner or later will simply not care for us anymore.

And maybe cleans up its place like we do by habit, too, in springtime.

[Wolferz]

I've had more than my fill of Arnold.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Me too, I grow tired of walking the one I have