1. Wake up! - was Re: note on AI
(Warning, somewhat off topic:)
So I go looking online for reviews and references to this book I read. People
are so stoopid, they deserve to be replaced by machines. Cases in point:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/78200-78400/0714530336.html - Facts presented
accurately, the reviewer didn't like the book, okay.
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/oc1/33collin.html - Misleading on some
points.
Now here we get to have some fun:
http://www.csam.iit.edu/~cs485/fall2000/reports/yoshi.html - No Michelle, your
book report demonstrates that either you didn't read the book (all the way to the
end), or you somehow failed utterly to understand it.
And http://www.zealot.com/features/archives/candave.php3 says:
<snip>
Warwick Collins, author of Computer One, a novel based on his fears that
computers will one day revolt, says that the government must establish rules on
the attributes that machines can be given. He says that military computers have
access to plutonium stores and biological weapons. "If computers no longer needed
humans and saw them as a threat, they could, without warning, wipe us out."
You heard it from an expert, folks. Computers could wipe us out.
</snip>
Collins' status as a SCREENWRITER makes him an expert on computers??? Sheesh.
Anyway, Computer One is a pretty good read, and will leave poor Ferdinand
needing much MORE sleep.
George
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:18:19
l wrote:
>K , let me get this straight . Your gonna make an AI program that is going
>to learn . And after it learns , it will save its memory to file . And after
>5 years , its gonna be very , very , very , very ( very,very,very) , very,
>and very smart ? Its gonna learn stuff it does not no is bad ? Kill , hack
>and destroy , flood mail boxes , sin , write emails , make its own programs
>, surf the web , and even CHAT !?!? and then , it becomes a computer god .
>Infecting all the PC , and just keep destroying . Then it programes its own
>army of AI programes . unlimeted power , started by a small group of
>programers just doin it for a hobby . The end of the world ........ o, man ,
>i need some sleep ...... long long sleep .....
>
>Read ya later ..... but for now , sleep . long sleep .
>Ferdinand Greyling(Duke Fungus)
>
>
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2. Re: Wake up! - was Re: note on AI
- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
Jan 31, 2001
-
Last edited Feb 01, 2001
On 31 Jan 2001, at 18:41, George Henry wrote:
>
> And http://www.zealot.com/features/archives/candave.php3 says:
>
> <snip>
> Warwick Collins, author of Computer One, a novel based on his fears that
> computers will
> one day revolt, says that the government must establish rules on the
> attributes that
> machines can be given. He says that military computers have access to
> plutonium stores and
> biological weapons. "If computers no longer needed humans and saw them as a
> threat, they
> could, without warning, wipe us out."
>
> You heard it from an expert, folks. Computers could wipe us out.
> </snip>
>
> Collins' status as a SCREENWRITER makes him an expert on computers??? Sheesh.
>
> Anyway, Computer One is a pretty good read, and will leave poor Ferdinand
> needing much
> MORE sleep.
/me points at "Colossus, The Forbin Project" and "2001"
Kat
