Here comes Terminator......

[sarettah]

The age of the machines is nigh. Prepare you puny humans for we, the machines have come to claim our rightful place.

As soon as we figure out where our dicks are, you can suck them


http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...n/12985397.htm

Machines are catching up to human intelligence

WASHINGTON - The machines are gaining on us. Their electronic brains are getting quicker and more capable and are displaying more signs of humanlike "intelligence."

A race earlier this month by five driverless vehicles across 132 miles of twisting desert road without a living soul aboard is evidence of the remarkable progress being made in the arcane field of artificial intelligence - AI for short.

Artificial intelligence is what happens when a computer or machine does something that would be considered intelligent if a human did it, such as drive a car, play soccer, reserve a hotel room or pilot a plane.

Also known as machine intelligence, AI is wired into almost every corner of modern society. AI programs design jet engines, spot bank fraud, evaluate mortgage applications, vacuum floors, organize supply systems for Wal-Mart and the Air Force, search buildings for hidden bombs or terrorists.

.................................................. .........................

"If all the AI systems in the world suddenly stopped functioning, our economic infrastructure would grind to a halt," Ray Kurzweil wrote in his new book, "The Singularity Is Near" (Viking, 2005). "Your bank would cease doing business. Most transportation would be crippled. World communications would fail."

.................................................. ..........................

[Dravyk]

Not sure if this is covered in the article (that's another newspaper that wants my email to read the article, so they can you-know-what), but this was covered on the Discovery Channel show "Discoveries This Week" two weeks ago. What is wild is, last year, not one single car was capable of getting off of the initial first lap around the race track, let alone get out to the desert course. So five cars finishing is an incredible accomplishment in a single year.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Not sure if this is covered in the article (that's another newspaper that wants my email to read the article, so they can you-know-what), but this was covered on the Discovery Channel show "Discoveries This Week" two weeks ago. What is wild is, last year, not one single car was capable of getting off of the initial first lap around the race track, let alone get out to the desert course. So five cars finishing is an incredible accomplishment in a single year.

I think we should be scared - and excited at the same time, but mostly scared!