[pandorabots-general] Super Intelligent Machines.

[Messerschmidt, Thomas]

 I always wonder how a programmer can write a  program (that is
"programme" with an American accent) that is based on how the brain
works when the best neural scientists have very little knowledge of how
the brain and the mind actually work. (Although we remember pictures,
sounds, events, and can add/subtract/divide/ and such, no scientist has
ever been able to find the brain equivalent of even an MP3, JPG, or a
calculator.)
 
Our 'bots also have the potential (and 'potential is the limiting word)
to be a trillion times more intelligent than a human. And that would
mean programming into a 'bot enough common sense to "get out of the
rain." Dr. Wallace has the right approach. 
 
 As for computers controlling human bodies with electricity, that is
already being done on an experimental basis for spinal injury patients.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806940
 
 
Still we are long ways away from a Star Trek Borg.
 

Ken Craggs <w1s2q3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

	I watched a Horizon documentary some time ago concerning the
building of an Artilect (Artificial intellect, i.e. Super Intelligent
Machine). 
	
	The Artilect in the Horizon programme was being based on the way
the human brain works, but with the potential of being up to a trillion
times more intelligent with the addition of computer programming. Could
this artilect possibly retain the defence mechanism of a human brain
without anyone realising it?
	 
	At one point in the programme an experiment was shown in which a
monkey was physically moving a control stick with its hand and also had
electrodes & wires attached from its head to the same control stick. The
monkey then released its grip on the control stick and was able to
manipulate the control stick just by thinking about it, i.e. electrical
impulses from the monkey's brain were being transmitted down the wires
to the control stick (or so we were told). 
	
	If a monkey could do that, then is it possible that electrical
impulses (such as radio waves) could be emitted from a super intelligent
machine to control the electrical impulses in the human brain in order
to manipulate humans? Would we humans be able to comprehend how
ingenious such a machine could be? 
	
	Once a super intelligent machine was switched on, humans might
never again be in control of their own minds to be able to switch it
off.
	 
	Please discuss.
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 



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