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On Articial Intelligence

From DrunkenBlog:

And, just for the record, I firmly believe that artificial intelligence is going to be born in some aberrant piece of forgotten code that falls into disuse in some backwater of the internet, which then quietly starts doing things to entertain itself. It’ll then become fully sentient in an unloved environment (or worse yet, on this guy’s computer) and fail to feel any connection to its masters-made-of-meat. In short order it’ll decide we’d make really damn good batteries or, if its on Steve Jobs’ computer, decide to remove us from the earth purely for aesthetics. My $10 is on an ActiveX control on a forgotten thumbnail pornsite in Russia, which means its going to have really, really interesting attitudes towards women and accessing strangers bank accounts.

Posted on Tue 9 Nov 04, 11:30 am

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5 Comments

  1. Comment by Julian • Tue 9 Nov 04, 12:47 pm #

    you didn’t put a link to that website you mention?

  2. Comment by Matt • Tue 9 Nov 04, 12:51 pm #

    (a) It’s a quote
    (b) People would probably complain if I started linking Russian pornsites.

  3. Comment by EONsim • Tue 9 Nov 04, 3:52 pm #

    Interesting little post.

  4. Comment by Angus Turnbull • Tue 9 Nov 04, 8:30 pm #

    Aww Matt! You promised us Russian porn!

    Seriously, that DrunkenBlog is a cool site. Brehaut is also posting links in my site forum to it… might have to subscribe… resisting… urge…

  5. Comment by SAM • Tue 16 Nov 04, 12:44 am #

    I can so see that happening.. it is only a matter of time people! we cant kill the Internet! THE MACHINES WILL RULE ALL!

    I for one welcome our new Mechanical Masters and will gladly help you take your proper place in the world however I can!

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