Tue
Jul
15
Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future - CNN.com
this meme just keeps popping up in corporate news over and over again…The Rise of the Machines. Maybe Fake John Connor has something to say about this..
“On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.
“Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful,” said Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium. “If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species.”