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By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem

schwit1 (797399) writes Louis Del Monte estimates that machine intelligence will exceed the world's combined human intelligence by 2045. ... "By the end of this century most of the human race will have become cyborgs. The allure will be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical technology, most of the human race will have more leisure time, and we'll think we've never had it better. The concern I'm raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species." Machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves. They "might view us the same way we view harmful insects." Humans are a species that "is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses." Hardly an appealing roommate."

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  1. Re:Now thats incentive by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    See, they legalize cannabis, and this is what you get... :-)

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  2. Re:Now thats incentive by DrLang21 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm pretty sure it was the gay marriage that did this.

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  3. Re:Now thats incentive by lgw · · Score: 4, Funny

    I blame amnesty - if we only built a proper fence, we'd keep out the illegal singularity!

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  4. Re: AI is always "right around the corner". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lol you cutie. You think Siri is AI. Wow you are so naive and cute for thinking that.

  5. Re:Well by NemoinSpace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not multi threads, that's for sure. Of course computers will take over the world. Programmers leave all those unused cores lying around doing nothing and that's trouble. You gotta keep those registers full, and i mean all the time. Either that or just feed them some chip-porn. That'll keep em busy.

  6. Re:AI is always "right around the corner". by Panoptes · · Score: 4, Funny

    "semi-autisitc fuckwitted word salad"

    When a computer can come with such linguistic inventiveness, we may truly say that AI has arrived.

  7. Re:Now thats incentive by MRe_nl · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all like, interconnected, man.
    I smoked Mexican pot once
    and now I'm gay.

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