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« on: Feb 24th, 2014, 8:35am »
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Robots Smarter than Us.
 
This is not a traditional question but an FYI that you will find interesting.
 
In today's (February 24, 2014) "New York Post" on page 3 we find a short article titled "Robots smarter than us".
 
It states that according to Mr. Ray Kurzweil's fearless prediction in 15 years, by 2029, robots will be:
 
- smarter than people who build them;
- holding conversations with people;
- learning from experience;
- understanding human behavior better than humans;
- flirting;
 
Being a C programmer I don't like the prospect of getting replaced by a machine. Oh, well. I guess I have to start practicing my job interview with a machine so that I can fool it into "thinking" that I am a machine also, not a human.
 
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If machines will get so smart how will they know that they are flirting with a human and not another machine?
 
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I'm failing already. The machine can simply ask me to spell something ...
Correction: learn became learning, understand - understanding.
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 24th, 2014, 10:47am »
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I suppose it's commendable he's only adjusted his prediction by a year since last time I've seen him make it (and that that was more than a year ago). But I doubt it will come true.
 
And seriously, if robots are gonna be so smart in 2029, why do we still have to build them; why don't they build themselves?
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 25th, 2014, 11:38pm »
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A human being can make a Robot, but a Robot can never make a human being (I mean naturally).
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 11th, 2014, 4:14am »
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Human can create a robot which could be educated and become even smarter than human
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« Reply #4 on: Apr 23rd, 2014, 11:20pm »
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A robotic scientist who will deeply fall in love with his robot, whose brain is ruled over by heart, might give 100% controls of robots to the robot without keeping a single master key with him... such a person is a living danger  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 18th, 2014, 3:18am »
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Today, computers are already better than humans for one task: entertaining humans.
 
This means that humans will quickly stop communicating with each other but communicate with computers who communicate with each other.
 
In the end, humans will live as end nodes of a society controlled by computers.  Ruled by computers as soon as they become smart enough.
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 18th, 2014, 8:53am »
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on Aug 18th, 2014, 3:18am, Grimbal wrote:
Today, computers are already better than humans for one task: entertaining humans.
Are you sure?
I can't think of much entertainment that comes from computers; a lot comes by computer, but it's still from people. What entertains people are mostly stories, whether it's fiction or gossip or non-fiction; books, sit-coms, dramas, reality-tv, youtube, vlogs, blogs, movies, computer games (in as far as they depend on plot and creative input), live-streamed video-game feeds with player commentary, etc.
 
Computers still suck at writing compelling stories. And until they can do that, I don't see them take over entertainment.
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 18th, 2014, 9:11am »
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Er, you are right.  Computers don't have much say in what entertains people after all.
Then it is the people who own the computer in the middle who are likely to rule the world.
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on Aug 18th, 2014, 9:11am, Grimbal wrote:
Er, you are right.  Computers don't have much say in what entertains people after all.
Are you sure?  Grin
At least on the internet, a lot of entertainment is recommended by algorithms. Video on Netflix (probably also youtube ?), books on amazon, anything via search. They may not generate much of the actual content, but they potentially have a lot of influence on what reaches people.
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« Reply #9 on: Aug 19th, 2014, 6:07am »
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I heard that some people don't even meet face to face.  Instead, they talk to a computer who stores whatever they say.  Then, other people ask the computer what is new on the subject and the computer repeats what the previous person said.  They think they speak to actual people, but in fact, they just speak to a computer who plays pre-recorded messages.
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« Reply #10 on: Aug 20th, 2014, 1:33am »
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After watching the movie 'Her' I got really sad and scared at the same time. I hope I dont live that long to see this kind of thing happening.
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 2nd, 2015, 1:39am »
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Human can create robot but robot can not create human
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« Reply #12 on: Feb 2nd, 2015, 1:50am »
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who knows - maybe one day robot will create human Smiley
 
Or robot will create robot Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: Feb 2nd, 2015, 11:41am »
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on Feb 2nd, 2015, 1:39am, jordan wrote:
Human can create robot but robot can not create human
Doesn't stop people from trying Wink
 
Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised if robots could do IVF.
And soon we (and robots) will be (technically) able to replicate a whole genome and replace a cells DNA with it. And one day we'll be able to build the whole cell. And then robots (and we) will be able to build a human from scratch. Technically.
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