I am like others in awe of how far technology has advanced since the early days of computers, home pc's, and while these MDARS, act like remote
controlled robots, they often act more like a moving camera eye.
While such a piece of equipment like MDARS does serve to inform and provide intelligence that otherwise would be labor intensive, the advancement of
certain technologies are moving us into what I believe are dangerous times.
Advancing from a MDARS type robot to a robot that can think and act on its own is what comes next and to make that point clear, as of January 2011,
DARPA has officiated Operation Minds Eye and begun corporate partnerships to develop the architecture, systems and programming language needed to
advance robots to a self aware and self thinking, seeing and acting on programmed intelligence protocols. In effect, robots that can act in an
autonomous and intelligent fashion and without humans being in the loop or decision making process.
Link to DARPA (Mind's Eye) press and media release
www.kurzweilai.net...
While DARPA and the Dept.of Defense seek to begin placing such new advanced technologies on major weapon systems, it also indicates to anyone that
understands what is going on that such new advances in certain technologies has a flip side that is also very startling to consider.
In the age of Nazi Germany and specifically the death camps, such a systematic system of human disposal was based on great labor needs and
construction and operating costs. When one sees how such a system worked in the face of labor and costs, it is science and technologies that will
make the new death camps somewhat different and perhaps totally automated.
Automated killing machines, disposing of humans based on programming instructions and AI computer processes running extermination programming
protocols that humans would be reluctant to do. The ultimate means to killing the masses in a cold, calculated, programmed and all in some computer
based language.
DARPA Mind's Eye is the next level above technologies like the MDARS and it would behoove us to become familiar with how super AI computers will make
evil doers that much more evil in what they can do without all the human failures that come with killing and disposing of human beings in mass
numbers, day after day like some machine from hell. Oh well, take MDARS and add a thinking computer and some weapons and you will have a type of
robot that would resemble something from the army of Sky-net.
Once they become self aware, which I feel must eventually happen, they just may decide that we are the enemy and if that happens, if they can build
and repair themselves, then in affect, the will not need us and may see us as an impedance to their advancement and progress in a technological world
where computers rule and humans are only kept for slave purposes to serve the machines.
Anyway, take a look at the Mind's Eye program summary link and understand that this technology is moving forward whether we want it to or not.
Follow the corporations involved if you want to learn more.