It’s Alive….
Through out my career as a journalist—I’ve always been guided by my own instincts and judgement about trends, stories, and what people want to read in the paper, hear on the radio, see on TV, or scan in my blog…
But now—I’m on the brink of being replaced by intelligences far greater than my own—I’m about to be replaced by my software…
EXTRA, EXTRA, BREED ALL ABOUT IT….
A couple of techies from M.I.T. have come up with software that uses a form or artificial intelligence “to alter colors, fonts and hyperlinks of pages in response to what seems to grab the attention of the people who click on the site.”
They say the sites actually evolve through breeding.
As you can read here it develops pages that update quicker than a human could create and change them—adding new material all the time to satisfy readers.
Hey—I’m all for it.. Soon, all I’ll have to do is just type in a subject, sign my name to the blog,and let my software write the whole darn thing!
NOT TONIGHT HONEY, I’VE GOT A LOW BATTERY….
Web pages aren’t the only artificial things that are breeding…
The author of a new book says humans and robots will soon be breeding too…
This isn’t the first time David Levy has broached this subject.
Last October we told you about how he wrote a research paper talking about how trends indicated humans and robots might marry in the near future.
Now, in his book, he says with-in five years, humans will be having sex with robots—whether we marry ‘em or not.
He sees nothing unusual in this saying:
” artificial devices have been used for sex for many centuries, so there is nothing intrinsically implausible about the idea that humans may want to engage in sexual acts with robots.”
You can read more about it here… But It’s got me wondering, what happens if my robot spouse/lover decides I’m spending too much time with the toaster or lawn mower?
Could make for a messy divorce…
I mean—who gets custody of the extension cords? ….
HEY, THAT ROBOT HAS A KILLER SMILE….
And, If you got your robot mad enough at you—maybe it wouldn’t bother with divorce.
Maybe it’d just terminate you!
One British Artificial Intelligence scientist is worried that killer robots could be a threat to humanity.
Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield says robots used in military applications are getting more and more autonomous… And as they gain intelligence and sophistication, they could run amok and begin banding together to wipe out those pesky humans.
You can read more of his fears here—where he goes into greater detail about his concern.
Sharkey thinks we ought to ban autonomous weapons systems—before they ban us…
Maybe it’s not such a bad idea.
In the meantime—I’m just hoping my automated web page doesn’t tell my robotic wife what sites I’ve been looking at on the Internet !
—Steve
Link to video & story Steve covered today on NBC-17
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