There is no doubt that with the advancement in tech that we now have, that robits and AI computerized appartus will find us worthless. Humans destroy the environment, kill each other, contribute to social and earth habitat environmental problems, why should they not do away with us? AI is better than hominids! There is a scientist in the U.S. that is now surgically inserting computer chips in his arm and brain to prepare for this "revolution." He can now operate a robotic hand over the internet from halfway around the world. The one millimeter square computer chip that will be inmplanted in his brain directly bonds to neurons and contains about 500,000 transisters and a few thousand capacitors to integrate and process the data - and it works.
valich essential lifelong learning (2,001 posts) It is coincidence that this is your 2001st post? Maybe you are already under control.
Humanity may have its bad points but how should that constitute mass genocide? Using that logic we should kill a killers family even though they are innocent.
Minority Report, the Matrix, and the Terminator. You seem to take movies all too seriously Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
They'll need somebody to change their batteries... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Actually, since they are machines, the state of the environment shouldn't matter a damn to them. If they came to construct self-replicating factories or whatnot, they would probably pollute ten times as much as anything us poor dumb Rebel Apes got chugging away now... A bit of heavy metal or PCBs in the water ? What do they care ? They don't drink water. Some toxic gunk seeping into the ground, poisoning the vegetation ? What do they care ? They don't have to grow crops, or feed livestock. They could run unfiltered coal plants to generate electricity, or unshielded nuke plants, plus just toss the spent fuel into any convenient hole in the ground. What's it gonna do, kill 'em ? They could strip mine like the devil to get at whatever minerals they need and what would they care about woodsy the owl or whatever other species they might kill off in the process ? Wouldn't biodiversity be meaningless to machines... what does it offer them ? I agree that the Electro-Mechanical Management Collective might well want to do away with humanity, but not because of our "vices". More likely just 'cos we're in the way... :bugeye:
NBC just highlighted this threat on an hour special on prime time t.v. This is no joke. We've got robots around the world working for the armed forces, in hospitals performing surgery and carrying patients from one bed to another, as play toys, and now we have scienticts imbedding computer chips under their skin. For robots and computerized AI devices to have a continuous supply of energy is no problem - solar energy, nuclear, human-controlled - their's no problem there. Consider the reality today and then use that to think beyond the limits of tomorrow. You have to learn to think outside of the box to see the future.
The true future of hmanity lies within bionanotech not robotics & AI. We could use bionanotech to replicate the human body but making us nearly immortal, death could become optional.
