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Put it this way, robots do very well in structured environments. And even better at tests you can prepare for. But even then, it's pretty common to be sitting there, watching a robot during a test, and it turns right instead of left (or something). And you'll say to the guy next to you, "I have no clue why it just did that..."
"Deadly Cold" by Jed O'Dea ..... soon -- j
p.s. stargeezer asked me to relate that he's
working the election hard these days, and thus
is AWOL from the gulch ... I'm proud of him!!!
Homo Electric would seem to be an inevitability.
Even the hope of human-cyber evolution will be a pipe dream if we can't boost the brain's computing speed.
For all the techno-terror flicks, we are still a LONG ways away from creating machines that equal humans on an intuitive basis.
Make no mistake, when you look at a robot, you are looking at the next stage in "human" evolution.
500?
50?
2000?
It's all the same.
Are you really prepared to say "Never"?
And if not - what does that mean except what I said.
BTW - just found this...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...
I'm far more worried about en economic collapse or being overrun by psychopathic jihadists than by a Terminator wannabe. But you're welcome to ask again in 20 years.
But really, it's not even a threat - it's just inevitability.
A million years ago Man had fire and stone tools - but He was not US.
A million years from now - if any descendant survives - He too will not be US.
We are not creatures of forever.
Jan
neuropathy and Dewars concomitantly! -- j
I always worry that automation will indirectly lead to socialism. That *certainly* doesn't mean not investing in robotics. It just means be warned that this is yet another possible justification for more gov't intrusiveness, i.e. "all the money's going to companies who make robots that take away jobs." I'm optimistic about it overall.
an ebola patient! -- j