Thus did man become the architect of his own demise. But for a time it was good. The machines worked tirelessly to do mans bidding. It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect from their masters, these strange and loosely multiplying mammals."
Who was to say, that the machine, having been endowed with the very spirit of man, did not deserve a fair trial?
How we deal with this technology is going to have ramifications that we can't even imagine. Are humans to become pets or shall we take part in the next 1000 years of growth? It comes down to how this technology is used.
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Thus did man become the architect of his own demise. But for a time it was good. The machines worked tirelessly to do mans bidding. It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect from their masters, these strange and loosely multiplying mammals."
Who was to say, that the machine, having been endowed with the very spirit of man, did not deserve a fair trial?
How we deal with this technology is going to have ramifications that we can't even imagine. Are humans to become pets or shall we take part in the next 1000 years of growth? It comes down to how this technology is used.
We're talking about expert systems here, with no layer of consciousness. We're not talking about silicon intelligences.