Imagine you’re sitting at the dining table reading the latest Wrestling Observer, as you do from time to time. Nothing too crazy, just minding your own business. Then, suddenly—it’s always suddenly—the microwave hops off the counter, wielding a knife, and comes charging after you. Oh, dear!
Or maybe one day you’re merely cleaning around the house, when out of nowhere comes your Roomba flying at you at breakneck speed. Mind your neck!
Crazy scenarios? Perhaps, yes, but scientists and those who pretend to be them may be increasingly worried about a Terminator scenario: robots and other forms of artificial life turning on their creators, wreaking havoc all over the planet.
Maybe one day we’ll all wake up and robots will have determined that humans are the biggest threat to planet Earth’s survival, and go on a murderous rampage, à la I, Robot.
This all stems from a recent meeting of scientists and researchers, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. And while those present weren’t necessarily concerned that the T-100 will come a-knockin’, their scenarios are no less destructive, like, what if someone codes a computer virus that “no one” can stop?
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence will publish a report later this year, and it’ll, in part, deal with all that hurly-burly.
Come on, I, Robot!
The microwave thing is silly and won’t happen…the Terminator III scenario, depending on how AI advances, is slightly more likely (and a heck of a lot more scary, honestly).
this is bound to happen one day with the way technology advancing!
and also it woul dbe kind of cool excepting the humans dying part!
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The virus thing is more scary than other scenarios. Can you imagine a world where people and businesses are too scared to connect their computers to each other?? Talk about the end of life as we know it.
Sure, we would survive, but just imagine being dumped back into 1980… well OK body glove mini-skirts, but everything else??!?!?!?
Ive always thought about it and wondered if there were robots with AI, they would have to run on some sort of power and that power would eventually run out?
Considering that if you were to map the human brain electronically/digitally it would take a football field full of supercomputers,unless we actually use humans with robotic parts(which we have yet been able to 100% accurately reproduce a human hand prosthetic wise) and implant chips, then it is going to be a very long time before Artificial Intelligence rules the world… Though the idea is pretty cool,thus, why they have used it in Sci-Fi movies & shows.
So you know Skynet from Terminator. The robot central computer, it exists. True fact. Check it:
http://skynet.unc.edu/
There was a really cool video about this sort of thing in The Animatrix. It talks about how the machines ended up dominating the planet and how everything got to how it was in the movies. I think their version makes a lot more sense than something like iRobot.