Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking

[Gunthr]

Hawking's Warning

Interesting idea. You can see how Hawking might have a special insight on this. His body is basically just a life-support system for his brain, an electrical organ that is aware of itself. He uses electric powered locomotion. He has electrically produced speech, and he must have a close affinity to computers.

[Sikboy]

Sheesh didn't this guy ever watch Star Trek? I mean, Genetic engineering sounds great and all, but we'll just end up making Khan, and he'll plung us into WWIII (And STII btw). But... If we let Computers take over the world, we can create a Mechanical Utopia which could support the likes of V-Ger and bring a glorius union between god and machine... or something like that. I don't know I wasn't paying enough attention. It's early still and I haven't gotten enough coffee.


-Sikboy

[Nifty]

I dunno about watching, but he was on a next generation episode once.    They said when he saw the set for the warp core room he said "I'm working on that."  

[Tuomio]

If you have cybernetic implant to override all your senses with computer generated ones, why in the hell would anybody plug himself out from that?

I mean, thats perfect Virtual Reality, everything would be possible in there. There would be no way for person to make difference between real and unreal, without artificial  means (ie. Microsoft startup screen covering your vision when you wake up in your VR).

Why explore stars, if we can bring the stars to us?

Edit: The point is, that i have no noubt of computers "taking over the world". Thats when the computers BECOME our world.
Oops, i think im there already

[miko2d]

Genes define our brain structure during the embryonic development process, so whatever you do with them, it is not possible to affect currently living people - only the future babies.

 It is possible right now to affect genes of the babies in order to improve their intelligence and other traits - by marrying (or at least getting sperm/eggs) from smart healthy people.
 Not many people are interested in it though.

 miko

[Animal]

Argghhh.. I cant control it

When I read what he said I can hear his computer generated voice in my mind

[CyranoAH]

I am Hawking of Borg.

Resistance is Futile.

You will be assimilated.

Care to bring me some more coffee?

:D:D:D
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Daniel

[milnko]

Originally posted by Gunthr
Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking

Too late. Any of ya ever fought Drex?

[unix]

Good thaught but as long as the robots are running windows I am not going to worry.

[-dead-]

How do we know that's Hawking saying that and not his computer trying to trick us?

[Tac]

"Good thaught but as long as the robots are running windows I am not going to worry."


LMAO!!


"HUMANS! WE WILL NOW TAKE OVER THE WO.."

*flicker*
 
"General Protection Fault in Module 003ff232"

[Tac]

*G*

[spitfiremkv]

technology advances is one thing, finding someone to program a computer to be as intelligent as a human being is something else. doing that would take probably as much as it took for our DNA to be programmed

[blur]

Thanks for the article. I needed a good laugh.

Hawking said, 'computers double their performance every month'. Humans, in contrast, are developing much more slowly, and so must change their DNA make-up or be left behind. 'The danger is real,' he said, 'that this [computer] intelligence will develop and take over the world.'

I personally have never come across a computer any smarter than a common household toaster.

I think someone better check his battery pack.

[Gunthr]

" Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error. " - HAL