Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
Geo, I don't remember where I read it, but I read an article about," artificial intelligence " it is a computer that is programed to think for itself, and they're thinking of useing it to build weapons of war, the article said that man can just go so far when designing a weapon, but the artificial intelligence computer can think beyond the limit it was programed for, and is capable of building weapons beyond mans comprehension, now Geo, imagine a computer that can think for itself, it would know it is smarter than man, so what if it was to think it was better than man and didn't need mankind around any more, and used it's artificial intelligence to destroy all humans. kinda scary you think..
I have done quite a bit of research on AI, and have actually developed some very rudimentary "learning" processes.

Knowledge based computing is the wave of the future.

Kurzweil thought 15 years ago that the computing capability to mimic the human brain and thought process was about 10-20 years away. I believe that we're to that point. The physical computing and processing power exists to emulate human thought.

Kurzweil also stated the programming and neural nets would be another 20-30 years away from that. I believe those are probably close estimates, based on how fast we're building massively parallel capabilities. There will be a time when the software can effectively harness the hardware. When that happens, thinking computers will be born.

AND, what is extremely scary about that, is that thinking computers will be able to react on all the knowledge in the history of the world, because their neural nets would be hooked into every single piece of knowledge every published. And not only be able to react and act on the knowledge, but also to be able to act and react faster than any human, and depending on the speed of the neural net, maybe as fast as a blink of an eye.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ray-k...y-2029-2014-12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predic...y_Ray_Kurzweil

BTW, follow the above wiki link to see some really cool info.


Scary.......

Later,

Geo