Now we just need it compiled in to a spreadsheet with all the various features indexed across the various boards and life would be good.

Ahh but the displacement of work by AI is different then the displacement of humans by AI.
I would agree that if we create really good AI then there are going to be huge economic impacts.
But if you want to take it to the next step and then suppose we as a species are going to be replace by AI and that it is going to be our master or whatever. Then in order for that step you need not only really good AI but a way for AI to replace our bodies as well.
If that's the case then the AI would need to then design, one generalized or more likely 100s of specialized, machines and then field them in the millions.
I'm not saying it can't happen. It's just that A needs to come before B. And for however long it takes for AI to happen, you then need to take even more time on for the machines to come along after that.

But managing pipelines, traffic light, and ATC systems won't get you much further then the 'killing a lot of humans' stage of any AI take over plan.
How would our fledgling AI construct itself a new power plant so it can grow? And then no matter how smart it may be, how does it substantially cut down the time that is actually required to build that power plant? No matter how much fast it maybe able to grow in cyberspace; it's still constrained by very real boundaries in physical space.

We already have protein based self-replicating nanobots... we call them bacteria. Not sure how they can help skynet though.
But yes the "infiltrator" model where instead of simply trying to take over upfront terminator style it works behind the scenes stats a business designs some new products and works slowly to take over the world is probably more 'realistic'.
But then you've pushed any possible timeline of machine take over out even further then simply the creating of AI, you're looking at probably 20 more years of it consolidating power before it makes it move, and as stupid as humans are you'd have to assume we'd see it coming at that point.

Yah you notice in terminator how they neatly skip over the part from skynet archives consciousness to self sustaining robot factories.
I think in the most recent one they had a throw away line about how it enslaved humans to build the factories.
Alright fair enough I can give you that. But who runs the power plant? Who's supply fuel to your power plant? Manufacturing replacement parts? Where are the resources coming from? Skynet was based in San Francisco... I wonder how far the closest copper mine is from there? Certainly going to need some iron.... and lets not forget all the rare earth stuff it would need to find. Some forges would also be nice if you actually plan to use any of that.... And of course you need to feed your slaves. some make sure to capture some farmers.

I can't even imagine how many people geographically distributed across the globe you would need to control a modern economic supply chain. Not to mention all those people you didn't manage to enslave would be attempting to stop you. So make sure you take control of a military as well...(of course how you would enslave people that you promptly give guns to is an interesting question)

Even if we are somehow close to creating a strong AI and that's a pretty big IF.
What threat could it pose since there is no way for it to get out of the computers. Even if it managed to take over every computer in the world it would still be totally dependent on man to keep it running. If it did something we didn't like we'd simply yank all the fiber and power lines to it and it would be dead.
In order to be really a threat an AI needs to be able to effect the physical world and that simply isn't there yet. Nor likely to be there any time soon.
Maybe it could open a dam or blow up a pipeline or even worse case get into military systems. But really if an AI could do it; that means any hacker could do it, and I'm much more afraid of that.

Yah that's why the photo caught my eye; I was thinking why would people inside a several foot thick concrete dome need harnesses and fire blankets... whomever is in this room is not having a good day.
After knowing what it's called there is an even more amazing article on that very room.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/...
They join technicians working on the platform to jump down a chute on the north-side of the platform that connected to the teflon-lined slide that rapidly gets them underground.
That 200-foot slide empties into the aptly-named "rubber room" with its rubber floors meant to absorb the impact of the explosion occurring on the pad surface 40 feet above them. Hopping off the landing ramp, the people would scurry to their left into the fallout shelter, a domed room suspended on shock-dampening springs and sealed off with massive blast-proof doors. Inside, the chamber held 20 chairs, a toilet and carbon dioxide scrubbing equipment to keep the occupants alive until rescue teams arrive.
AWESOME!

So follow up...(thank you google image search) Wired also is carrying the pictures and actually tells you what they are instead of BS like "Abandoned Secret NASA Complex"
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/c...
Number 4 is
"Shelter Dome, Rubber Room, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, 1996. “Adjoining the Rubber Room was a Shelter Dome room with the floor set on springs to isolate the occupants from whatever conflagration may be occurring above them as they seek shelter.”

What the heck is number 4? Looking at the door it appears to be in a thick concrete dome. With very uncomfortable looking inclined metal seats. (with harnesses) all angled to a center cage with "Fire Blanket" canisters...
The title is rather unhelpfully "Abandoned Secret NASA Complex" -roll eyes-

Curiosity is actually 899kg... a lot more than "nearly half a tonne"
And technically the viking landers performed a soft landing as well and were not that light; about 600kg each.

So if the other 3 detectors can detect the explosions under ground, under the sea, and in the atmosphere. Where exactly does that leave for a covert test that this gas sampling might miss?
Oh I see he thinks we need a world wide network of monitors to confirm what the other 3 sensors pick up. Gee if only there was some way to stick those gas detectors on something mobile.....
WC-135 Constant Phoenix

You know nothing.
Camouflage doesn't make you invisible but every military still uses it. Why? Because it makes you harder to see.
The stealth on the F-22/F-35 is not designed so they can fly at 35,000 feet over Beijing undetected; it is so they can lock their missiles on their target at 50 miles while the enemy has to be 20 miles away to lock it's missiles. Which is pretty damn useful despite your arm chair general's opinion.

2.2 Angriffsmittel und -methoden 15
    2.2.1 Spam 15
    2.2.2 Schadprogramme 16
    2.2.3 Drive-by-Exploits und Exploit-Kits 17
    2.2.4 Botnetze 18
    2.2.5 Social Engineering 19
    2.2.6 Identitätsdiebstahl 20
    2.2.7 Denial of Service 20
    2.2.8 Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) 21
    2.2.9 Nachrichtendienstliche Cyber-Angriffe 22

I can understand Spam but Drive-by-Exploits? Social Engineering? Denial of Service???
Surely there are German words for this? I mean 2.2.4 I'm pretty sure is botnet; which I assume should be a lot harder to give its own German translation than Advanced Persistent Threat...

2.2 Angriffsmittel und -methoden 15
  2.2.1 Spam 15
  2.2.2 Schadprogramme 16
  2.2.3 Drive-by-Exploits und Exploit-Kits 17
  2.2.4 Botnetze 18
  2.2.5 Social Engineering 19
  2.2.6 Identitätsdiebstahl 20
  2.2.7 Denial of Service 20
  2.2.8 Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) 21
  2.2.9 Nachrichtendienstliche Cyber-Angriffe 22

I can understand Spam but Drive-by-Exploits? Social Engineering? Denial of Service???
Surely there are German words for this? I mean 2.2.4 I'm pretty sure is botnet; which I should be a lot harder to give its own German translation than Advanced Persistent Threat?

How do you find a judge to 'take the case' until you've already filed a law suit?
I'm not sure you're familiar with the process of filing a law suit. And who is to say it's frivolous? You? Are we to forward you all law suits for preapproval?
No; this is how the legal system is suppose to work.
You are allowed to file a case for whatever you want. You can sue for more money then exists on earth if you want. http://what-if.xkcd.com/96/
Now what can and normally happens in these cases is the defendant will file their answer saying something to the effect of 'This person is crackpot' and file a motion to dismiss. The judge agrees. Bing bang boom the case is gone.

So really once Comcast files their answer to something of the effect; "It's in their contract we're allowed to do this" and the judge doesn't drop it then maybe you'll have something to whine about. But till then complaining about someone 'filing a lawsuit against comcast' is like complaining about the people that sue the FBI for stealing their brain waves.