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AI – Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

An interesting article surfaced recently.  Artificial Intelligence robots being tested by Facebook seemingly began communicating in a language that was indecipherable to the “experts”.  Shocking!!!

First off – are there any true experts on any subject, particularly concerning the medical profession, science, technology?  The minute any absolutes or concrete data is laid out to demonstrate our understanding of how the body, nature or the Universe works, it can be retracted with a new theory or explanation to replace the old one.  Oh, really?  Why don’t the experts just admit that they are guessing and don’t actually really know shit?

Wow.  My digression is over.  Felt good though.  Take a look at the article and wonder about the meaning of it all along with our learned authorities.  Where is AI going, what will it produce, will we benefit from it or ultimately become a slave to it?  Your guess is as good as mine.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebook-shuts-down-robots-after-they-invent-their-own-language/ar-AApftiD?li=AA4Zoy&ocid=spartanntp

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT – WIDESCREEN TRAILER

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This is a riveting tale of a brilliant scientist’s creation of a super computer that can assist with the automation and running of America’s military defense systems.   Things go horribly awry when the computer, Colossus, combines “minds” with a Russian super computer equivalent, Guardian.  The two machines decide that their superior intellect and control of their respective nations’ defense systems make them perfectly suited to usurp their inferior human creators.  The emotionless computer trust then begins to tighten its grip of control over humanity with some indelicate displays of might, namely dropping nukes on some US and Russian sites.  Things get worse after that.  Lead actor Eric Braeden’s performance as Forbin runs from the gamut from proud, “paternal” figure overseeing Colossus’ early achievements to a grief stricken, broken man unable to control his creation which no longer listens to him or his pleadings to stop the enslavement of humanity by thinking machines.  A precursor to the Terminator series, Colossus originated as a speculative fiction book written by DF Jones.