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"ESTABLISH A HIGH-CAPACITY NATIONAL RESEARCH COMPUTER NETWORK, DEVELOP AND DISTRIBUTE SOFTWARE, DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS,"
www.firstmonday.org...
"to work together on a variety of areas, including large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry. The new building [1 million square foot complex] would also include labs, offices, and housing for Google engineers.".
en.wikipedia.org...
"large scale data mining", "self-awareness", "acting on information discovered", "extracting new information from its data holdings" (i.e. predicting, planning, solving capabilities), "coordination between intelligent archives and intelligent sensors", "adapting to events and anticipating user needs", "Continuously mining archived data searching for hidden relationships and patterns", "Identifying new data sources and information collaborators, and using available resources judiciously", "weather prediction", "aware of its own data content and usage", "can extract new information from data Holdings" .
"The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly," Mr. (Larry) Page (co-founder of Google) told an audience of the digerati representing firms from Warner Music and AOL to BSkyB and the BBC. "You could ask 'what should I ask Larry?' and it would tell you."
technology.guardian.co.uk...
"Enables archive to adapt to events and anticipate user needs"
daac.gsfc.nasa.gov...
"One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence." (October 26, 2005)
www.google.com...
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Newt and his NBIC / aritificial intelligence fantasies
Originally posted by CAPT PROTON
Ever hear of...
Colossus: The Forbin Project is an apocalyptic science fiction movie based on the 1966 novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. It tells of a massive defense computer which becomes sentient and decides to take control of the world.
en.wikipedia.org...:_The_Forbin_Project
sounds eerily similar in some ways...
Originally posted by loam
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Newt and his NBIC / aritificial intelligence fantasies
Let's see what ya got.
Still digesting your Gore post...although, it's not really about him...
Originally posted by cpdaman
but ignoranceisntbliss u are a wonderful writer and i wonder what you think of al gore helping coin the term public-private partnership and how this transfers the ownership of assets and the role this plays in increasing the power of the large corporations, if any
Originally posted by uberarcanist
Typical Luddite nonsense:
Fire will destroy the earth!
The industrial revolution will destroy the earth!
Nuclear weapons will destroy the earth!
AI will destroy the earth!
Same #, different centuries.
As far as nukes with AI are concerned, at least we know it's illogical to use them against us to end the human threat.
But what's to stop it from threatening to do so in order to force everyone into implant technologies so that we can be controlled.
One of my cornerstone arguments is this, what way is even possible to ensure that it won't 'take us out', unless we're all part of its collective?
Originally posted by sardion2000
As far as nukes with AI are concerned, at least we know it's illogical to use them against us to end the human threat.
OK, I'll play along for a second. Why would it be illogical for an Artificial Lifeform to use nukes against us if we are deemed to be a dire threat? It's not like they would care about radioactivity, they won't have genes that can be mutated and will most likely be shielded from any EMF burst caused by the nukes. This is all assuming that they even bother to notice us after we create them.
But what's to stop it from threatening to do so in order to force everyone into implant technologies so that we can be controlled.
One of my cornerstone arguments is this, what way is even possible to ensure that it won't 'take us out', unless we're all part of its collective?
All I see in this thread, is useless fearmongering with no practical suggestions to mitigate any risks/ethical issues.