Robotics first steps......and our last breaths
Wired Article: Advanced Robotics
Knowing what we know, we are still trying to create machines that mimic humans. Have we not already seen the outcome of the this problematic solution. Many stories have been writen, many movies have been produced, yet we still strive to create the perfect artificial intelligence. Im sure it will take us fifty more years before our technology reaches the atomic level. When quantum mechanics blesses us with an artificial lifeform that surpasses human intelligence, maybe we will blow our selves up before then.
Our maybe not, maybe instead of creating that which will take our place we will be part of the machine. We have already started inplanting crude electronics into our bodies for the hope of survival. The process is slow right now, but wait untill we are able to create nano machines that acutally work. What path we are on no one can see. What fuels this unending passion to create life and to create that which will destroy it is tough to answer. Many will ignore, but a few of you know that we are headed for this dark future. I am only a voice, but someday my voice will be echoed through millions.
Just look around through your daily lives, look at what you do everyday. Ask yourself, can i live without these machines. Or can i live with them as a part of me. We are the gods on this planet, i see no other dominant species, besides what we are creating....our destruction........geist
Knowing what we know, we are still trying to create machines that mimic humans. Have we not already seen the outcome of the this problematic solution. Many stories have been writen, many movies have been produced, yet we still strive to create the perfect artificial intelligence. Im sure it will take us fifty more years before our technology reaches the atomic level. When quantum mechanics blesses us with an artificial lifeform that surpasses human intelligence, maybe we will blow our selves up before then.
Our maybe not, maybe instead of creating that which will take our place we will be part of the machine. We have already started inplanting crude electronics into our bodies for the hope of survival. The process is slow right now, but wait untill we are able to create nano machines that acutally work. What path we are on no one can see. What fuels this unending passion to create life and to create that which will destroy it is tough to answer. Many will ignore, but a few of you know that we are headed for this dark future. I am only a voice, but someday my voice will be echoed through millions.
Just look around through your daily lives, look at what you do everyday. Ask yourself, can i live without these machines. Or can i live with them as a part of me. We are the gods on this planet, i see no other dominant species, besides what we are creating....our destruction........geist
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Originally posted by dmgeist
Knowing what we know, we are still trying to create machines that mimic humans. Have we not already seen the outcome of the this problematic solution. Many stories have been writen, many movies have been produced, yet we still strive to create the perfect artificial intelligence.
You do realise books and movies aren't always factual representations of anything right? It'd hardly be a very interesting movie if it was a perfect world full of robots with advanced AIs and that was it. Much more interesting when they start to kill us.
Originally posted by dmgeist
Wired Article: Advanced Robotics
Knowing what we know, we are still trying to create machines that mimic humans. Have we not already seen the outcome of the this problematic solution.
d00d I saw the Terminator, whoa! that's what will happen if we make too many robots so we better not be stoopidz!
but if the bots take control, we can send someone back in time to fix it all. Worst case, we all get put in a matrix, but then we all have our own Pods so it won't be so bad, and we get to have sex with hot babe programs too.
Think Borg. I think that it is the next step in human evolution. Today it's pacemakers and artificial hearts, tomorrow's it's nanotechnology fighting cancers and maintaining our arteries. I think in a few centuries, with advanced genetic engineering and nonatechnology, this vision will be realized. We'll be able to genetically engineer our brains to lend themselves to interface with technology in such a way that the Borg collective will seem positively primitive.
visit the professor's site directly and read about cyborg 2.0
as for robotics, Robodex 2003 recently wrapped up in Japan. Awaiting the video updates.
2002 spawned a groovy flash/qt site full of cool robot video clips.
some here but the original, Robotbox - bottom link- seems to be offline
found a nifty UK walk-on contestant... Shadow Robot
and there are some waay cool mini-bots the size of pencil erasers that cluster...
ah Saturday Night Live before it all turned to crap.
*Paging Mr. Asimov... please pick up the RTML courtesy phone*
Terminators.
Subject(s): ARTIFICIAL intelligence
Source: Rolling Stone, 6/10/93 Issue 658, Technopop p14, 6p, 2c
Author(s): Dery, Mark
Abstract:
Discusses the future of robotics, as seen through the eyes of the field's two visionary roboticisits, Rodney Brooks and Hans Moravec. Brooks' bottom-up approach to artificial intelligence; His belief that sensorimotor skills, not higher-level thought processes, are the foundation on which intelligence is built; The insect-like robots he foresees in the future; Moravec's study of mobile systems, manipulators, computer vision and programming; More.
AN: 9306070051
ISSN: 0035-791X
Database: Academic Search Elite
touches on some of the issues raised above
:edit cranky URL. damn illegal character filenames. try
http://faculty.bus.olemiss.edu/breit...erminators.htm
or *grrr* the bottom link from this Google Search