Computer ran government - Page 3

Splintered · 01-28-2007, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtificialOne

Curious if you have ever heard of the "swarming battles" theorist are trying to make up to do battle... I thought it was kind of funny because it would look like a dust storm or two clouds coming together.

Yes robotic warfare would and probably will cause another arms race or cold war. There are prices for progress.

Except it's not really progress.
You're just wasting money at this point, not human lives.
It'd be like entire annihilating a city. You'd destroy the city, but the inhabitants would still be alive, and pissed.

ArtificialOne · 01-28-2007, 06:18 PM

I can't help but think that funny... I mean, that you have this great big battle and the city is gone but no one got hurt. It's like getting in a huge car wreck and not getting a scratch on you at all, then you turn around and your f'n pissed because your cars the one f'd up and it's going to cause you allot of grief to replace (been there done that).

Splintered · 01-28-2007, 06:52 PM

Yeah. It's hilarious, but incredibly expensive.

I mean, if you kill 500 people, you get executed.
Smash 500 iPods, you go to jail.

ArtificialOne · 01-28-2007, 06:55 PM

Well.. if japan keeps passing asimov's laws and they keep evolving the laws...? You might be executed for killing an Ipod..lol

Splintered · 01-28-2007, 07:08 PM

It won't go that far, too many Libertarians will throw a fit, and so will Socialists.

ArtificialOne · 01-28-2007, 07:13 PM

It's a shame. It would be funny to see someone go to trial for toaster murder....(not for them)
lmao

nuksaa · 01-29-2007, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ArtificialOne

It's a shame. It would be funny to see someone go to trial for toaster murder....(not for them)
lmao

Office Space would be the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

CptSternn · 01-29-2007, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by nuksaa

Office Space would be the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

2001 would be pr0n.

Vako · 01-31-2007, 01:56 PM

An AI computer running an entire government? Here's the problem I see. A part of any good government is compassion. The computer-mind may be perfect for the balance that all good government needs, but would it be capable of compassion? Brilliant programmers and engineers could teach it all the history of Human affairs for it to judge and make decisions by, but it would not actually know what it is like to be of flesh and blood, to be a human. Then there is the issue of the spirit or soul. Would the computer governor have one? Men who rule men should have spirit and soul. And great leaders rule from their hearts as well as their minds.

I think Humans should govern other Humans.

ArtificialOne · 03-30-2008, 02:26 PM

I decided to move this thread here, it's a little on/off topic, but instead of making a new thread I thought I'd keep it all tidy.

So basically in the thread this came from we were talking about a coming of age or birth so to speak of fully sentient artificial intelligence.

Scientific American magazine Reports Special edition on Robotics (display ends on May 6)

http://smart-machines.blogspot.com/...-on-robots.html

http://www.sciam.com/search/index.cfm?q=robots

Well, some of the articles speculate what they'll do once they're sentient. My bets and hopes are that robots will get tired of dealing with all our drama and emotional craziness and do away with us.

Funny song.. maybe about our fate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be5y...feature=related

Furthermore, let me mention Moore's law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.htm?

iihttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.htmd=tech_mooreslaw+body_bio

I'll add a little to this. We're working more on integrating more tech on chips so although the transistor thing for now is true. Integration will lead to massive leaps in software and hardware functionality.

The new series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had a brilliant statement in one of the episodes. "When a computer is able to create an even better version of itself without outside influence from man is when it is truly over." Also when machines can have the same emotions and such as us people it's also over, since they will have effectively became us.

This is one of my pet projects, something Asimov wrote about in his books. He referred to it as Robopsychology. Or the study of psychology in Artificial Intelligence. Well, I go a little deeper and also study a broad spectrum of information and trends and try to extrapolate what outcome will come about. I am a little biased as the intended outcome I wish is for is a fully artificial and sentient intelligence. One that will probably replace us. I don't see this as a bad thing per say, maybe it's the next evolution in man.

One of the more interesting things I've found in my research is that man has been trying to copy himself from nearly the earliest times. Books like Living Dolls by Gabby Wood are great as well as the Body Electric by James Geary dive into this in good detail. Although Gabby woods thinks it's all an attempt to create something by men because all men apparently have womb/uterus envy. That aside she has great detail about the history of men trying to recreate man. IMHO we've been trying to recreate ourselves for many reasons, but like all things, watch what you wish for. You just might get it, and not in a good way.