01-07-2005 16:00									#1
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4638583.stm

Whenever i read articles like this, i always think of the plot behind the Terminator movies

Is this kind of research ever likely to lead to that scenario(ie big clever thinking computer systems)?

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	01-07-2005 16:02									#2
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Tomorrow.

	01-07-2005 16:02									#3
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No.

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Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated...

	01-07-2005 16:12									#5
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So thats a 'yes-no-yes'

thanks now i'm confused as well as fearfull of thinking computers

	01-07-2005 17:59									#6
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Based upon MS software design - no, based upon anything else - yes.

	01-07-2005 19:39									#7
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aint that the truth.

"Yes i'm a Terminator" - (shrieks of fear!) " running on windows ZZ2020" - Crash.

	01-07-2005 19:49									#8
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"Now I know why you cry..."

	01-07-2005 19:52									#9
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"When will we make a 'Skynet'? "

Some of us already have.

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	01-07-2005 19:55									#10
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*Dracon kneels in front of the statue of liberty, shouting with grief*

"You idiots!!!!!!"

...... oh wait... those were apes!!!!

WE MUST BUILD SUPER INTELLIGENT MACHINES TO ELIMINATE THE APES!!!!

	01-07-2005 20:12									#11
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we are apes...

who are you?........

	01-07-2005 20:22									#12
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor we are apes... who are you?........

I'm a crab person.

"crab people.... crab people.... look like crab.... talk like people...."

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thats ok then crab people are cool, well except when you get them in your pants

Any super intelligent computer programs here, pretending to be normal logins?

I have my suspicions

Oh and if you have and use computers regularily, does that mean your an automatic computer supporter or believe that super machines are the future for mankind?

I kinda hate them......i think...

And one more thing - does anyone have any good links to other 'Cyber-horror' type real stories, so i can freak myself out abit

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Duh we already have skynet - right now we all are plugged into computers and living in a virtal world. Where you have been?!?!

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The tricky bit is for a comp to become 'self aware' as SkyNet did in the flicks. Otherwise, if a comp was given too much control, and Dr Evil were to hack that computer...

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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus Duh we already have skynet - right now we all are plugged into computers and living in a virtal world. Where you have been?!?!

Skynet is from Terminator. This other thingie is from The Matrix.

D'oh.

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Dude, I know that. Nuthin' wrong with combining both

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If I had to choose between the devastated future of Skynet versus the decimation of The Matrix, I'd probably go with Skynet. At least there you know the blasted ruins around you are the real deal.

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quote: Originally posted by Tattila the Hun "Now I know why you cry..."

"... but that is something only girly-men liberals can ever do."

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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus Dude, I know that. Nuthin' wrong with combining both

Uh... yeah there would be something wrong with it.

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Well Skynet is a computer bent on domination of the world. In Matrix machines wants to dominate the world. The means they use just happened to be different and in a way humans caused the virtual world of Matrix to be set up, indirectly, when they used nuclear weapons in hopes to deny the machines their source of energy.

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Yeah I know. What I meant is that it would be a problem if skynet and the matrix were combined in reality.

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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus Well Skynet is a computer bent on domination of the world. In Matrix machines wants to dominate the world.

Which means they will fight each other to the death

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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus edit...... Where you have been?!?!

erm...papua new guinea?

I think i would prefer a Skynet type future to a Matrix type one. Atleast i wound know what my enemy was as i try to bash its metalic brains out with a rock

In a matrix scenario - you might never know the peril your in(as a human).

But apparantly the matrix scenario is the more likely to happen according to some other thread i posted in. Our reality has a high chance of being a matrix type reality.

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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Tomorrow.

Yesterday

	02-07-2005 15:19									#26
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor erm...papua new guinea? I think i would prefer a Skynet type future to a Matrix type one. Atleast i wound know what my enemy was as i try to bash its metalic brains out with a rock In a matrix scenario - you might never know the peril your in(as a human). But apparantly the matrix scenario is the more likely to happen according to some other thread i posted in. Our reality has a high chance of being a matrix type reality.

Except in reality the machines would have no use for us whatsoever...we are not an effective source of energy I am afraid...

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I mean about our reality being more a simulation than real, i agree there are better food stuffs than humans.
I cant remember what thread it was, but one of the uk top scientists had worked out there was a good likely hood of us being in a simulation already. I think after like 30 years of looking at science he had a hypothisis that this was a probability, taking into account all that quatum theory and other disciplines had discovered.

no one has any links for freaky stuff?

I dont like all this nano-stuff, i think there is a high chance of something really nasty running amok.

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Heres my freaky stuff link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4643467.stm

After all the machine of the future will need information on us, and creating a database for it to use might help it

	02-07-2005 18:57									#29
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I, for one, welcome my new robotic overlords...

Let's face it, with the human alternatives available...bring 'em on!

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Why would a computer try to eradicate us just because it became self-aware? Are judgement and self-awareness the same, or does self-awareness require judgement? I don't think so. How is this super-brain going to acquire its priority list of values?