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Did Europe just invent Skynet?

Mar 8, 2013#1

Dave

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21714191

In short, European scientists just created a cloud-based "brain" that robots can use to learn stuff.

So...robots will be able to learn. Sweet.

Mar 8, 2013#2

Bubble181

Almost. But if you think that one's scary, check out http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ and what else they're planning. Self-consciousness and human personality downloads. Why do we get all of the scary shit from science fiction and hardly any of the cool stuff?

(actually, I think this is cool stuff too, but sshhhh)

Mar 8, 2013#3

Dave

Bubble181 said:
Almost. But if you think that one's scary, check out http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ and what else they're planning. Self-consciousness and human personality downloads. Why do we get all of the scary shit from science fiction and hardly any of the cool stuff? (actually, I think this is cool stuff too, but sshhhh)

I've read about that and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Basically, you'd be Rimmer. But could you imagine doing this to some people like Stephen Hawking? He'd be all the brain with none of the physical defects. It would be glorious!

Mar 8, 2013#4

Bubble181

Dave said:
I've read about that and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Basically, you'd be Rimmer. But could you imagine doing this to some people like Stephen Hawking? He'd be all the brain with none of the physical defects. It would be glorious!

Hawking? Sure. Mengele, Pot, Khadaffi,...? Imagine Bin Laden coming aorund saying "HI GUYZ IM IN THE INTERNETZ NOAW" and being immortal. That would suck quite monumentally.