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Topic: Stephen Hawking = Anti-Terminator Advocate
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InThrees
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posted 09-03-2001 10:37
   
This appeared in the 'People' section of the local newspaper yesterday. No, I'm not kidding, it really did.Hawking: Humans must stay ahead of machines. People get ready: the machines are coming.
That's the word from famed British physicist Stephen Hawking, who says if humans hope to compete with the rising tide of artificial intelligence, they'll have to improve through genetic engineering.
In an interview released Saturday with the Berlin news-magazine Focus, Hawking said science could increase the complexity of DNA and "improve" human beings.
He conceded that it would be a long proces, "but we should follow this road if we want biological systems to remain superior to electronic ones."
"In contrast with our intellect, computers double their performance every 18 months," he said.
"So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world."
"We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it," Hawking said.
Hawking, the author of the best-selling "A Brief History of Time," holds a prestigious Cambridge University chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton.
The 59-year-old lives with Lou Gehrig's disease and uses a motorized wheelchair and computer voice synsethizer.
(Wire reports) Now that's fucked up. Pardon me whilst I retreat to the basement and perfect my mobile personal EMP emitter. -3 IP: Logged |
InThrees
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posted 09-04-2001 02:11
WTF? No one thinks this is the most mind boggling thing published in days?Yuo = jaded!!!!!11 -3 IP: Logged |
zaksquatch
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posted 09-04-2001 08:30
Hasn't anyone read any Bruce Sterling?Schismatrix anyone? Of COURSE we have to genetically engineer the human race to keep up with machines. But not just machines, also the humans who choose to make themselves cyborgs. We have them to compete with as well. It's just old news man, that's why no one replied. IP: Logged |
Jimbo
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posted 09-04-2001 10:02
Hey hey hey - that was unkind, Steven Hawking coming out and saying that to the press isn't old news at all.The real reason nobody's replied is 'cause about all you can really say is "Woah!" ... and that looks kinda retarded.  IP: Logged |
psyci
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posted 09-04-2001 10:23
For me, I read it and go "Nah, that's retarded." And then I go "Wait... Stephen Hawking is a hell of a lot smarter than me..."Then I went and curled up into the fetal position and shivered for a while. IP: Logged |
Bad Mr. Spinch
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posted 09-04-2001 15:28
You too, huh? That can be quickly classified in my "Truly Scary Shit" folder.IP: Logged |
Snag
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posted 09-04-2001 17:29
I think Hawking should have kept that under wraps, so he could become the leader of the Borg.
Wow... that was lame.
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InThrees
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posted 09-05-2001 11:40
[q]Wow... that was lame.[/q]And funny at the same time, go figure. L4m3r! -3 IP: Logged |
InThrees
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posted 09-05-2001 11:43
I use to many different goddamn flavors of forums, I can't seem to remember how to quote correctly.me = retard -3 IP: Logged |
Bex
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posted 09-05-2001 21:39
Makes me think of the Lawnmower Man.IP: Logged |
InThrees
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posted 09-05-2001 23:51
I do, or the article does? Hahaha =pSeriously, tho, I have to agree with Jim on this one. One of the world's most brilliant inhabitants saying this in all seriousness in an interview makes me wonder where we're headed. Skynet, I am your friend. Unless I get one of those sweet plasma rifles. Then I'ma fuck your shit up. -3 IP: Logged |
Deadbeat
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posted 09-07-2001 03:28
This type of article would normally strike me as cyberpunk paranoia bullshit, but since it's from Steven Hawking it means that we really are fucked.Smash the machines while you still have the chance. ------------------
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