April 27, 2007

What would happen if the robots turned against us?

Didn't they see the Terminator movies?

Instead, we should worry just where the technology of robotics is leading us humans, because, in the future, the dark side of machine intelligence will make itself felt with increasing force.


So why should we be worried by a technology that seems to have, so far, brought us little more than some clever toys and machines that can weld cars and clean pools?


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What we will see are robotic planes carrying out reconnaissance, robotic troop carriers and tankers travelling across the desert and robotic submarines patrolling the Gulf. And, inevitably, fighting machines.


The question is then, who gives the orders to shoot? Is it is a soldier, in a command post miles away?


Or is the aim to programme these machines to make their own decisions? Then we are into a whole new ball game.


Which one is the human and which one is the robot? Read the rest of the story to find out.

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