From: D. den Otter (neosapient@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 14:01:55 MDT
At 10:20 29-08-00 -0700, you wrote:
>Which quote?
Oh, you know:
`Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create
superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.'
(Vernor Vinge at the 1993 NASA VISION-21 Symposium, supposedly).
Here immediately that well-known image from Terminator 2 comes to mind; a
cyborg skeleton's foot violently crushing a human skull. Way cool! Once
"real" AI is developed, it's only a matter of time before they build
something like SkyNet; a fully automated and autonomous defense system with
nuclear (among other things) capability.
>"D. den Otter" wrote:
>
> > Actually, something like the above, maybe in
> > combination with Vinge's famous quote,
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