By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 28 August 2008
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Captain Sensible
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IT
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From Neuromancer to Terminator, enough sci-fi has been written about AI to generate fear.
I don't feel threatened by machines, I do feel threatened by autonomous machines that think.
10 years in AI research taught me we don't even understand how we (humans) think, so if we ever create machines that actually think we have no hope of understanding how, or limiting what, they think.
Worse. The more machines think, the less humans bother to think.
Excellent article; well written. As a fellow Eagle...
Anonymous
From Neuromancer to Terminator, enough sci-fi has ...
Captain Sensible
...and not forgetting Arthur C. Clarke's invention...
Declan Trezise
I didn't think there was a radio broadcast of the ...
Mark Leeper
Anonymous = Almost every creative technologist and...
Peter Cochrane
Captain = I remember when the first nematode was d...
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Mark = Hmm, it was rather a long time ago - I may ...
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Declan = Agreed on all points! Peter
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