Is it time we let machines think for us?

Post #62,492 by a6l6e6x 11/12/02 4:25:14 PM Reply	Is it time we let machines think for us? Can't do much worse. [link\|http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,75728,00.html?nlid=EMC\|Infoworld's sister] We may soon find out whether that's true. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is accepting research proposals to create the first system that actually knows what it's doing. Alex "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
Post #62,497 by Brandioch 11/12/02 4:37:24 PM Reply	Busting a gut! "If you want autonomous weapons, it's helpful for them to be intelligent." The Bolo or Beserker series spring to mind. :) Steve Jackson's "Ogre", also.
Post #62,502 by jb4 11/12/02 5:00:24 PM Reply	Re: Busting a gut! ...or the Forbin Project... jb4 "About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. " -- Edsger W.Dijkstra (1930 - 2002) (I wish more managers knew that...)
Post #62,507 by Ashton 11/12/02 5:21:24 PM Reply	Homo-sap self-parody at its best! "It's all moving toward this grand vision of not putting people in harm's way," says Raymond Kurzweil, an artificial intelligence guru and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies Inc. in Wellesley Hills, Mass. "If you want autonomous weapons, it's helpful for them to be intelligent." Yessss! Let's take the nasty close-up blood&guts outta World Domination for Freedom; viewed and Nintendo-ed from a comfortable leather couch 3000 miles away, on a rilly Expen$ive TFT screen: it can be edited for newsfotainment.. Live! [change all the Red-smeared fluids to umm khaki? so as not to disturb the cheeldrun watching the smart bomb take out the air-raid shelter. Again.] "You get enough really smart people working on a really hard problem, and you get outcomes you didn't really expect," he adds. "We're hoping for a little serendipity." Gosh.. with innovative writers like this, can William Blake quotes be far behind? Ah.. the utter Banality of Evul; even after the proof-reading by the artificial unintelligence we already perfected and patented. Old: The Thousand Year Reich New: The Millennium [fill in next despicable] 'Act'
Post #62,542 by wharris2 11/12/02 7:01:52 PM Reply	Erf. The Defense Department doesn't know what it wants to do, how in hell is a computer program they write going to do much better?
Post #62,566 by a6l6e6x 11/12/02 8:55:31 PM Reply	But think of the fun the folks on the project will have! Alex "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)

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