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over the phone about his thoughts surrounding artificial intelligence and Losers In The Giant Credit Card
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"It won't be the 'Terminator' scenario, not a war," said Del Monte. "In the For 3 Days
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will seek to turn humans into cyborgs. This is nearly happening now,
replacing faulty limbs with artificial parts. We'll see the machines as a
useful tool. Productivity in business based on automation will be
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increased dramatically in various countries. In China
it doubled, just
based on GDP per employee due to use of machines."

"By the end of this century," he continued, "most of the human race will
have become cyborgs [part human, part tech or machine]. The allure will
be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical

technology, most of the human race will have more leisure time, and we'll
think we've never had it better. The concern I'm raising is that the We Took A GoPro On The Tallest Drop Ride
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Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the
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capabilities to protect themselves. They "might view us the same way we
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wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer
viruses." Hardly an appealing roommate.

He wrote the book as "a warning." Artificial intelligence is becoming

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If Robots can lie, they can also steal or kill. Our "mad scientists" are
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@Michael Soileau:
If anything, this makes robots even more

dangerous, as they would be totally guided by "survival instincts".

Emotions can result in empathy and service to others. Survival
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@Mr.Perkins:
You clearly have no sense of history or behavioral
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above a single cell, have a sense of community and
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interdependency. Robots would require neither. As for "the
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A single robot, that can repair itself, requires NO other intelligent

life; and pure logic dictates, if it is unnecessary, remove it.

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A machine has no biological imperative to compete with living things.
It doesn't reproduce and has no needs, no need to evolve, nothing
driving it all. Except what humans program it to
do, either
intentionally or unintentionally.

The biggest risk of technology is what other humans decide to do
with, followed closely by whatever dumb accidents occur.

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@Alan Carl Brown:
For example, a self replicating machine

instructed to gather carbon, with no rules or limits governing that.

Oops, that could be the end of humanity right there.

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"The implication is that they're also learning
self-preservation," Del Monte told us. "Whether or not they're

conscious is a moot point."

Yikes

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"The implication is that they're also learning
self-preservation," Del Monte told us. "Whether or not they're

conscious is a moot point."

Yikes

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