Re: Heaven or hell? Swiss heat up..............

FACE wrote:
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:01:49 +0100, in uk.politics.misc, for Re: Heaven or hell?
Swiss heat up.............., Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx>, wrote

I disagree. Early fifties stuff like Asimov was pretty big on it. The robotics
series? -- positronic brains. Most computers were mainframe type stuff -- smart
terminals and a huge underground city computer --or a world computer. Check out
"Colossus: the Forbin Project" (late sixties -*) Harlan Ellison, early sixties
<'something about screaming with no mouth>, Swiss politics, 2007.....

* - too bad about Guardian....it had such promise.
That's just it - the future was *not* that way.
Now everyone can own a computer that would have made Forbin's one look like a pocket calculator.

Looks like you did not read the trilogy, or at least past book one.....

True.

And Asimov too lacked imagination. If you can have a general AI capable of running androids why does it stop there?

That's ridiculous.

Not at all.
The next step, probably within months of a general AI appearing, is superAI. What won't happen is a AI stopping at Human level robotic intelligence.

AI is the last invention of Humanity and the end of it, one way or another.

--
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
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