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Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by gerald » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:22 pm

a step closer? http://www.fastcompany.com/3014203/fast ... g-building

Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by vincecate » Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:28 am

at99sy wrote: If one considers that many of the processing devises and computer chips are made in China, not much of an imagination stretch
to see where Outsiders could gain control over these machines. Happened to Iran. Why not us? rhetorical of course.
I remember reading somewhere that the reason the French made Exocete missile was failing to sink British ships during the Falklands war was that the French gave the British codes to disarm them so they would not explode.

Here is something: http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110663

Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by gerald » Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:19 pm

at99sy wrote:
gerald wrote:f

BUT!!! EVEN PREDATOR DRONES ARE BECOMING SENTIENT AND RISING UP AGAINST THEIR MASTERS:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/1 ... ialism-the...
If one considers that many of the processing devises and computer chips are made in China, not much of an imagination stretch
to see where Outsiders could gain control over these machines. Happened to Iran. Why not us? rhetorical of course.

cheers sy
interesting, very interesting

Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by at99sy » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:47 pm

gerald wrote:f

BUT!!! EVEN PREDATOR DRONES ARE BECOMING SENTIENT AND RISING UP AGAINST THEIR MASTERS:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/1 ... ialism-the...
If one considers that many of the processing devises and computer chips are made in China, not much of an imagination stretch
to see where Outsiders could gain control over these machines. Happened to Iran. Why not us? rhetorical of course.

cheers sy

Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by gerald » Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:56 pm

for what it is worth ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-2 ... am-warming

Ahmeexnal

Drones over Cyprus are next.

BUT!!! EVEN PREDATOR DRONES ARE BECOMING SENTIENT AND RISING UP AGAINST THEIR MASTERS:

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/1 ... ialism-the...


The Predator drones being flown are prone to accidents. In a few cases, they have even become sentient.
In March 2011, a Predator parked at the camp started its engine without any human direction, even though the ignition had been turned off and the fuel lines closed. Technicians concluded that a software bug had infected the “brains” of the drone, but never pinpointed the problem.
“After that whole starting-itself incident, we were fairly wary of the aircraft and watched it pretty closely,” an unnamed Air Force squadron commander testified to an investigative board, according to a transcript. “Right now, I still think the software is not good.”

Re: Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studi

by inoka11 » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:54 am

i saw a video of Dr. Micho Kaku, explaining why Robotos will never be able to wipe out the Humans even though they get to a place where they are really intelligent.

Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied

by MattH79 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:57 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091
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Cambridge researchers are to assess whether technology could end up destroying human civilisation.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change.

The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".

Fears that machines may take over have been central to the plot of some of the most popular science fiction films.

Perhaps most famous is Skynet, a rogue computer system depicted in the Terminator films.

Skynet gained self-awareness and fought back after first being developed by the US military.

'Reasonable prediction'
But despite being the subject of far-fetched fantasy, researchers said the concept of machines outsmarting us demanded mature attention.

"The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake," the researchers wrote on a website set up for the centre.

The CSER project has been co-founded by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, cosmology and astrophysics professor Martin Rees and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn.

"It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology," Prof Price told the AFP news agency.

"What we're trying to do is to push it forward in the respectable scientific community."

He added that as robots and computers become smarter than humans, we could find ourselves at the mercy of "machines that are not malicious, but machines whose interests don't include us".

Survival of the human race permitting, the centre will launch next year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091

Alan Turing (the inventor of the computer [before Von Neumann]) first wrote about the Technological Singularity in the late 1940's or the early 1950's.

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