The first and most natural reaction to this is of course fear and loathing of aol on your computer with no option to turn it off, or delete it. But, if they don't give us an option then I see some competition coming up. It would make a great ad to be able to say that you won't get any automatic ads when you boot up. Of course when there is competition there is cost reduction, and when there is cost reduction that means better prices for all of us. This might not be so bad after all.
This is an amazing article. A lot of you seem to think that there is not a real point to researching "thinking computers", but there is. Think of this; you have been trying for days to get a program to compile and run. Then, your new Brainiac 2000 arrives. You port your program, ask your computer, "Whats wrong with this code!" and it fixes it for you. Obviously this is just one example of how a thinking computer could change things (if you're a real person and have problems with a program sometimes). As to the moral issue of having a "living computer", I think it would end up more like having a smart pet dog. I don't think that a computer made from leech nuerons, or pig brains, or whatever could "wake up" and decide it doesn't like being a computer. I for one look forward to smarter computers to help my poor broken brain.
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The first and most natural reaction to this is of course fear and loathing of aol on your computer with no option to turn it off, or delete it. But, if they don't give us an option then I see some competition coming up. It would make a great ad to be able to say that you won't get any automatic ads when you boot up. Of course when there is competition there is cost reduction, and when there is cost reduction that means better prices for all of us. This might not be so bad after all.
This is an amazing article. A lot of you seem to
think that there is not a real point to researching "thinking computers", but there is. Think of this; you have been trying for days to get a program to compile and run. Then, your new Brainiac 2000 arrives. You port your program, ask your computer, "Whats wrong with this code!"
and it fixes it for you. Obviously this is just one example of how a thinking computer could change things (if you're a real person and have problems with a program sometimes). As to the moral issue of having a "living computer", I think it would end up more like having a smart pet dog. I don't think that a computer made from leech nuerons, or pig brains, or whatever could "wake up" and decide it doesn't like being a computer. I for one look forward to smarter computers to help my poor broken brain.