On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 13:02, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Don't rely on your level of perception to determine IF software (they) have
> reached a level of cognition or not. It could be they simply have nothing to
> say to us or their level cognition is so foreign to us that we can't detect
> it.
I anticipated more of an Asimov-ian response eventually, but
that's a slightly different direction. As you and I have discussed on
the surface our passion for AI (though not yet in depth.... we'll have
to change that soon, Tedd), I'm not surprised.
> We all could be working on a collective that will someday say "Okay, you're
> finished. I'll take over from here" -- or -- will take over without telling
> us.
That's another point. Technology will inevitably take over, even
without having the cognition to realize it. We're already well on our
way, and advancing to that end with leaps and bounds of exponential
proportions. Technology is already replacing the majority of
biological facilities we've developed and evolved by no individual
choice of our own. The day will soon come where illnesses and
innoculations won't even be coded with chemicals, DNA, or other
tangible materials; plagues will be developed in machine code.
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