Our impending enslavement to the machines

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Originally Posted by Canar

Those don't count because they're under human control. ;) Now if those suckers were autonomous, then I'd start worrying.

Hey man, one step at a time. Now that they have made them, they'll start trying to give them better autonomous command and control capabilities (or some shit like that)

Give it time.

[djmarkpaul]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/scien...403780,00.html

Kim, a leading authority on technology and ethics of robotics, said: "Christians may not like it, but we must consider this the origin of an artificial species. Until now, most researchers in this field have focused only on the functionality of the machines, but we think in terms of the essence of the creatures." That "essence" is a computer code, which determines a robot's propensity to "feel" happy, sad, angry, sleepy, hungry or afraid. Kim says this software is modelled on human DNA, though equivalent to a single strand of genetic code rather than the complex double helix of a real chromosome.

Kim said: "Robots will have their own personalities and emotion and - as films like I Robot warn - that could be very dangerous for humanity. If we can provide a robot with good - soft - chromosomes, they may not be such a threat."