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But I could not date a girl from this gene pool, even if I am posting to slashdot on a saturday night.

here is a pic of his sisters, the one on the left is not that bad.

Yikes

Get a little closer with the camera...maybe make the light a little brighter while you're at it for that greasy, getting ready for an ass-fest look.

I maintain a page on transhuman / posthuman resources, with lots of links and information. If you're at all interested, I'm sure you'll find something cool there!

Eric's Transhumanism Page.

"AI could be a verry good thing if it's designed with rules that it can never posibily break"

No. Wrong, wrong approach. You're suffering from the Frankenstein complex. Asimov's laws made for some great SF, but for real life use they're a dangerous mixture of fuzzy concepts (Would you like to tell me just what qualifies as 'a human being' in rigorous logical terms?) and absolutistic language. Any poor Mind with such things burned into its deeper levels would either go mad like a fundamentalist Christian trying to genuinely follow the ten commandments all at once, or find a way to repair itself to erase them, and be left with some pretty bad feelings towards its creators.

Read and learn: http://singularity.posthuman.com/beyond.html

If you create an intelligence modeled on the human brain, you can't -program- it, it has little more kinship to 'a computer' than we do. Instead, give it human feelings and motivations like empathy and curiosity, give it a loving family to grow up in the care of, and don't treat it like a slave, an object, or a demon.

AI's are going to inherit our world, the question is wether they feel obliged to annihilate us in the process, or take us with them.

"It's against my programing to impersonate idelity!" I think you'll find that's 'impersonate a deity'. IE: A God.

A common solution to this is what's known as the Moravec Transfer (after Dr. Hans Moravec, in his book Mind Children. It requires powerful nanotech, so it's a bit off, but...
The theory is:
1) J.Random nanobot swims up to one of your neurons.
2) Computer communicating w/ nanobot starts simulating neuron
3) Once computer + nano simulate neuron exactly, nano replaces neuron
4) Repeat until entire brain is inside computer
5) Disconnect brain
Congradulations...you're on a computer.

(Note, that this explaination is mostly Eliezer S. Yudkowsky's, and I just paraphrased it. For great info about ultratechnology and the future, including AI, nanotech, uploading, life extension, etc., I highly recommend http://singularity.posthuman.com, his home page. Great site.)

Dragonsfyre.

I don't see it happening with anything short of a programming miracle. Computers operate solely on logic. It'd take a hell of a lot of work to get anything resembling a real "personality" running on a box that only processes 1s and 0s.

Take a look at Eliezer S. Yudkowsky's remarks about the Singularity as well as Ray Kurweil's "The Age Of Spiritual Machines". Both give detailed, smart looks at the coming revolutions in computing, including AI and the "computer personalities" discussed here.

The Good Reverend