Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 05:14:25 03/29/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 23:17:33, John Coffey wrote: >Are you telling us that these people will automatically fail in their efforts to >create self learning programs that are NOT expert systems? Are you saying that >it is impossible for a computer to ever be self learning and self aware? Are you >saying that even if this is not impossible, someone will step in and prevent it >from happening if it does happen? >----- >Certainly not. >----- >If you are not saying that, then I guess the possibility of cognizant, aware, >conscious, computer systems are possible. And when man invents the hardware with >10^10 times more power than today's system (approximately 50 years, give or >take), such a computer system could be born. > >Nothing to worry about today. Granted. But that does not mean that we should not >think about it and sit around with our heads buried in the sand. > >KarinsDad :) > >---------------------------------- >The assumption that this leads to negative stuff is probably wrong. My original >point is that computers are tools. There is this worry that they will surpass >us. They already have in some areas. A slide rule can do a few calculations >better than I can. My original point is that they are an extension of us just >the way a hammer is an extension to my arm. The tools are about the better use >of imformation, which enhances our intelligence. > >John Some researchers fear super-brainy machines will be a science-fiction nightmare come true.Kevin Warwick,head of cybernetics research at Britain´s University of Reading,is convinced that machines will subjugate humanity by 2050.And Hugo de Garis,head of a project to build silicon brains at Japan´s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(ATR), admits he is haunted by the prospect that his creations might "swat me like a fly". Source:"BusinessWeek",Latin American Edition,August 23-30,1999, page 65,"Machines will be smarter than we are",by Otis Port JAFM
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