[pandorabots-general] Super Intelligent Machines.

[Danté Ashton]

What concerns me is the human side of it, if a monkey could operate a device
as you describe, then perhaps it wouldnt be such a big leap for paralyized
humans to become independant yet again? (yes, off topic, but i'm a
transhumanist :P)

Going back on topic (sort of) I wonder who came up with the name Artilect?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, 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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-Dante Ashton

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