From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 22:52:14 MST
After reading these articles, I'm convinced that artificial intelligence
will sneak up on us from behind. While AI labs labor away at trying to
create top-down or bottom-up AI, PC and network OS manufacturers will
unwittingly give rise to it by gradually making the everyday computer OS
ever more robust (widely distributed, self-optimising, self-diagnostic and
self-repairable).
While the networkable OS may not be conscious, who cares? As long as it can
perform as well (or better?) than the sentient Jupiter Brain some here are
expecting.
http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=640231
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/index.html
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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