You thought the premise of Terminator was scary? Or perhaps The
Matrix? Ha! You have no idea what’s really coming. Perhaps you
should look instead at your Roomba vacuum cleaner- it may be the
early evolutionary precursor of the Cylons in Battlestar
Galactica. It’s an example of the kinds of problem-solving
algorithms being employed in current A.I. research. Another area
where you can see this is chatbots- programs designed to respond
and interact in online chatrooms and automated helpdesk systems.
Here’s what happens when two chatbots have a conversation with
each other- Claiming to be unicorns, talking about God, and
wanting a body? SkyNet is not the nightmare. Trapping us in a
fictional mental world to use us for battery power is not the
nightmare. The nightmare is that not only are they as crazy as
we are, they think millions of times faster. The machines will
achieve the entire spectrum of human thought all the way up to
and beyond our current dysfunctional trichotomy of post-modern
nihilistic existential