As with most futurists, Ray and others assume
that we will be able to control our intelligent
robots. But if they are truly intelligent, then
are they also out of our control ? And isn't the idea that a sentient machine would share our values wishful thinking ? For me, the ONLY hope
for coexisting with sentient machines is that
"they" would compete and disagree with each other
and would have no use for humans or the air, food, water, etc that we require to live. The best
outcome would be that "they" would ignore our
petty disputes and failings and leave the planet
to find their own destiny...
I also think the threads which discuss the emulation of the human nervous system in hardware
are short sighted. Instead, any system could be
emulated in software using neural nets and object
programming. I suspect that real intelligent machines are closer than we realize.
Perhaps
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As with most futurists, Ray and others assume
that we will be able to control our intelligent
robots. But if they are truly intelligent, then
are they also out of our control ? And isn't the idea that a sentient machine would share our values wishful thinking ? For me, the ONLY hope
for coexisting with sentient machines is that
"they" would compete and disagree with each other
and would have no use for humans or the air, food, water, etc that we require to live. The best
outcome would be that "they" would ignore our
petty disputes and failings and leave the planet
to find their own destiny...
I also think the threads which discuss the emulation of the human nervous system in hardware
are short sighted. Instead, any system could be
emulated in software using neural nets and object
programming. I suspect that real intelligent machines are closer than we realize.
Perhaps