From: Franklin Wayne Poley (culturex@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 21:48:46 MDT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, J. R. Molloy wrote:
> The general public need not back or fund AI projects because the US military is
> spending millions trying to develop AI.
This could be a nightmare. What do you think? If the militaries are in an
AI race what does it mean? What if we are only a decade or so away from AI
to surpass human equivalency on all major measured outcomes of
intelligence including learning ability? What if the present
state-of-the-art is that it 'only' takes x billions of dollars (available
to the militaries) and machines will be on hand which are more
"learned" than humans and can add to that learning better and faster than
humans? They can then work on advancing military science 24 hours a
day. It makes Roswell conspiracy theories pale by comparison. But then
this is all just distant futuristic fantasy, right? And we the public can
sit back and know that private and military AI research is many decades
away from any such state of development.
FWP
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