Human V2.0
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the good old 16 plus four the first computer under 100 quid...it wasnt my first but probably fondest (kickstart ruled)...my first was a dragon 32...probably the only welsh computer ever made 
... good times...actually the program i was thinking of wasnt the spectrum speech program it was an amiga program called lyromat...it had a texan accent addon for it...GEORGE BUSH RUNS ON KICKSTART 1.3 ...
... good times...actually the program i was thinking of wasnt the spectrum speech program it was an amiga program called lyromat...it had a texan accent addon for it...GEORGE BUSH RUNS ON KICKSTART 1.3 ...Watched the show, really interesting. I personally think that these "Artilects" would probably spread rapidly, as all it takes is one of them to connect to the internet, and it could distribute itself to billions of computers and servers around the world in pieces, so that even if you destroyed it (yeah maybe a little OTT but it could quickly become clear that human co-operation was not in it's long term plans- see below) it would survive in other forms, perhaps using cloud computing to achieve control of important infrastructural networks.
The way I see it is, once the first one of these things is built, then Moore's law no longer applies and the rate of progression will be exponential, not geometric, as the machine will be able to design others 1000s of times more complex and powerful. It truly is frightening, because to this race we might seem like nothing more than a little insect you would swat as an annoyance, as one of the guys in the film pointed out. I'm all for the advancement of computing technology, but as far as I'm concerned the real power (i.e. the descisions) should always be human at some level. Also if you could live on as an AI after you died, what kind of life would that be? Someone could just come along and format you and then you'd be gone.
The way I see it is, once the first one of these things is built, then Moore's law no longer applies and the rate of progression will be exponential, not geometric, as the machine will be able to design others 1000s of times more complex and powerful. It truly is frightening, because to this race we might seem like nothing more than a little insect you would swat as an annoyance, as one of the guys in the film pointed out. I'm all for the advancement of computing technology, but as far as I'm concerned the real power (i.e. the descisions) should always be human at some level. Also if you could live on as an AI after you died, what kind of life would that be? Someone could just come along and format you and then you'd be gone.
yep, completely agree...software engineers have developed a program that learns and creates it own code...it was doumented in new scientist about 4 years ago...don't get me wrong it was a very simple set of subroutines and nothing that could ever be called an artilect..the project was pulled though when they realised it had written the beginings of code to duplicate itself which could be argued that its the start of inteligence...I can't for the love of money find any reference to it though...only the program that is learning speech....and has amassed the vocabulary of a 4 year old in about the same time...you can find more info here Machine Learning
It is very worrying though...I think a few people in the documentary are looking at the complete extremes and I seriously doubt we will see alot of this within our life time...but never the less I know what most of my nightmares are about
It is very worrying though...I think a few people in the documentary are looking at the complete extremes and I seriously doubt we will see alot of this within our life time...but never the less I know what most of my nightmares are about
