http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/23/tangram-to-help-connect-the-dots-in-intelligence-puzzle/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/23/tangram-to-help-connect-the-dots-in-intelligence-puzzle/#comment-11644 J. Bruno Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:15:09 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/23/tangram-to-help-connect-the-dots-in-intelligence-puzzle/#comment-11644 Right, it probably is the terminator. Right, it probably is the terminator.

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/23/tangram-to-help-connect-the-dots-in-intelligence-puzzle/#comment-11643 Q Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:09:41 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/23/tangram-to-help-connect-the-dots-in-intelligence-puzzle/#comment-11643 this sounds a lot like the terminator series. for those of you who don't know, yeah it's just a movie, but we as humans have habits of bringing even the most far fetched sci fi ideas into reality. like pocket size cell phones. in the 60's when star trek was new, it was though to be 300 years away. and look only 30 years later we had it. well, in terminator, it was revealed the machines, were born from a defense computer, that was designed to do exactly that. analyze worldwide data for us. in order to do that, the program had to be smart, be able to adapt. in essence, it needed consciousness. and while a single computer with todays technology may not be capable of this. we forget 2 things. one, the technology the military uses is a good 15 years ahead of civilian technology. and two, it will be multiple computers across a huge network in essence forming a sort of artificial brain, to think for us. look at data and say hey thats a threat, and thats not, and just like the movie, if the program is corrupted, or becomes able to make independent choices, it might decide or even figure out the biggest threat to humanity, is humans, and if we are the threat, it may decide to eliminate, or terminate; us. that can be anything from launching nukes, to machines building better machines. it's not impossible, we have been meddling with artificial intelligence, for years, if you don't believe me google it. I'm not saying technology is the threat, cause i rather like technology, it makes the world interesting, what i am saying is, giving computers a mission to analyze threats could be a bad idea. this sounds a lot like the terminator series. for those of you who don’t know, yeah it’s just a movie, but we as humans have habits of bringing even the most far fetched sci fi ideas into reality. like pocket size cell phones. in the 60′s when star trek was new, it was though to be 300 years away. and look only 30 years later we had it. well, in terminator, it was revealed the machines, were born from a defense computer, that was designed to do exactly that. analyze worldwide data for us. in order to do that, the program had to be smart, be able to adapt. in essence, it needed consciousness. and while a single computer with todays technology may not be capable of this. we forget 2 things. one, the technology the military uses is a good 15 years ahead of civilian technology. and two, it will be multiple computers across a huge network in essence forming a sort of artificial brain, to think for us. look at data and say hey thats a threat, and thats not, and just like the movie, if the program is corrupted, or becomes able to make independent choices, it might decide or even figure out the biggest threat to humanity, is humans, and if we are the threat, it may decide to eliminate, or terminate; us. that can be anything from launching nukes, to machines building better machines. it’s not impossible, we have been meddling with artificial intelligence, for years, if you don’t believe me google it. I’m not saying technology is the threat, cause i rather like technology, it makes the world interesting, what i am saying is, giving computers a mission to analyze threats could be a bad idea.

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