USA's robots will dominate mankind.
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But rather than offer us hope, another leading computer scientist believes these inroads in to the mind threaten oblivion.
Professor Hugo de Garis is the architect of some of the world's most complex neural networks - computers that evolve their own intelligence.
Now he is deeply conflicted over the future he is helping to create.
Prof De Garis believes that in a matter of years machine intelligence will supersede our own by a factor of millions.
These so called artilects - short for artificial intellects - will be so powerful that they will appear "almost God-like".
But Prof De Garis fears that they may not be quite so benign.
"How will they feel about us - an inferior species?" he asks before drawing a doom-filled analogy.
"...They may treat us like mosquitoes; as pests," and simply wipe us out, he says.
Horizon is broadcast on BBC Two on 24 October at 2100 BST. Or watch online after that at the Horizon website.
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These robots cannot wipe us out. They need to depend on our proteins to survive. What I can predict is that when war between the humans and these machines get so intense, and yet these machines can't destroy us, they may trap and lock up the humans in a virtual world, altering our memories and perspection of the world so that we'll be stuck in a virtual world of the 1990s forever.
Or maybe we can ask these machines to create a virtual world where there are limitless amounts of xiao mei mei to play with us...wahahahaha
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matrix...
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dun worry.. flingster is here to save the world...
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Did somebody just watched i Robot?
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This is why you should not give a robot a mind.
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Actually it's true, there is a new Terminator 4 movie coming out soon in 2009.
Entitled "Salvation" i think .
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Thats why. Thats why these things should not be invented. Those so- called scientists always want to create things that are "awesome" and not anything really benificial. Always thinking of dominating the world. As if it is something great.
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Hugo currently is a professor at Wuhan University's, China, where he teaches pure mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science.
A short comment from the Hugo @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAKj52w0zY
Take note of his final word about the artilects, which he predict may become reality by end of this Century...
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Until I see robots win Nobel Prizes, I will always regard machines as inferior to human species.
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who is greater of em all? Human or Robos? Robos are human creation.............. so?
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Originally posted by annoy-you-must:
These robots cannot wipe us out. They need to depend on our proteins to survive. What I can predict is that when war between the humans and these machines get so intense, and yet these machines can't destroy us, they may trap and lock up the humans in a virtual world, altering our memories and perspection of the world so that we'll be stuck in a virtual world of the 1990s forever.
Or maybe we can ask these machines to create a virtual world where there are limitless amounts of xiao mei mei to play with us...wahahahaha
You are already in a virtual world. wake up and smell the coffee.
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Pick the pill.
The red or the blue one?