How about this for a 'Man-made' disaster...

AI creates own language...
One step closer to AI's being 'self-aware'.

Hello, SkyNet!
This is scary....

great,what next?? give it some nukes?

It's easy to joke about the consequences of AI, but in all seriousness, it scares the hell out of me. Why would an incredibly smart, fast and world wide entity want to keep us around? We are cruel, erratic,wasteful, and on average stupid.

AI may work in some factories but it will never replace the truly important jobs; farmers, ranchers, construction workers, fishermen, miners, etc. I'd like to see some silly robot even try to rebuild 20 miles of my fence.

Arcticdude said:

'd like to see some silly robot even try to rebuild 20 miles of my fence.

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Bloody hell, how big's your garden!!!

Arcticdude said:

AI may work in some factories but it will never replace the truly important jobs; farmers, ranchers, construction workers, fishermen, miners, etc.

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But, if AI's DO evolve and wipe us out, they won't need those things...

Arcticdude said:

AI may work in some factories but it will never replace the truly important jobs; farmers, ranchers, construction workers, fishermen, miners, etc. I'd like to see some silly robot even try to rebuild 20 miles of my fence.

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Arctic, I think our times have already come and past. As they say, we are obsolete (so they think) Way I figure it, keep track of the technology and learn how to kill the SOB. Right now most of this stuff is under human control, wait till they incorporate AI into these things, lets just say 'maximum overdrive' For Chrissakes new cars and trucks are computer controlled with fly-by-wire technology.

They already have robotic tillers, planters, irrigators, pickers/harvesters etc.. ETH zurich university has a robot that builds fences and in the process of building homes, Kuka has robots that lays bricks and concrete

pooky2483 said:

Bloody hell, how big's your garden!!!

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The garden is only about 30,000 sq feet. But the ranch covers a lot more than that.

Arcticdude said:

The garden is only about 30,000 sq feet. But the ranch covers a lot more than that.

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so you have pushing 15000 acres more or less,,

grayghost668 said:

so you have pushing 15000 acres more or less,,

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More or less....

pooky2483 said:

AI creates own language...
One step closer to AI's being 'self-aware'.

Hello, SkyNet!
This is scary....

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Terminator anyone??

Colossus anyone? It did create it's own language...from scratch.

How many people remember that movie?
Colossus: The Forbin Project

I may be cautious about the bad consequences of AI, but not paranoid.

AI has incredible potential...especially in medicine and cancer care.

However, in the spirit of fairness to people who disagree with me, I don't like a lot of the automated drone technology.

I would be more concerned about a crazy hacker hijacking a drone remotely and committing a terrorist act.

It seems like a trivial exercise to arm a drone with nerve agents.

DrHenley said:

Colossus anyone? It did create it's own language...from scratch.

How many people remember that movie?
Colossus: The Forbin Project

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My father's favorite sci fi movie.

I have the follow up novel, The Fall of Colossus.

I don't like machines, especially ones that can think for themselves.

bigpaul said:

I don't like machines, especially ones that can think for themselves.

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If somebody was, somehow, able to turn off all of the computers, perhaps half of the world's population would die right away.

I love computers because I love things like sophisticated surgery, food distribution, pacemakers, etc..

Many of us would die without them.

Kevin L said:

If somebody was, somehow, able to turn off all of the computers, perhaps half of the world's population would die right away.

I love computers because I love things like sophisticated surgery, food distribution, pacemakers, etc..

Many of us would die without them.

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many wouldn't be able to even function without computers,mobiles, x boxes and all of the other stuff.
I don't care, i'm a neo luddite, I don't know much about computers and I don't want to.
once the power goes off we will revert to a pre industrialised lifestyle and those that cant cope will die off.
not so much survival of the fittest, more survival of those that can adapt to the new normal.

But bigpaul, if there weren't any computers, there would be nobody to read your tirades!

this is true!!however on the brighter side nobody would know I existed which might be to my advantage.

Arcticdude said:

AI may work in some factories but it will never replace the truly important jobs; farmers, ranchers, construction workers, fishermen, miners, etc. I'd like to see some silly robot even try to rebuild 20 miles of my fence.

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They wouldn't need to farm if no humans are left. [emoji15]

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