Our "intelligence" is vastly overrated compared to our self-maintenance and repair

Especially when this "intelligence" is not even a proven mandatory requirement for survival

Start with machine-based self-maintenance on the order of the human body

When you have reached that pointed , THEN you are able to establish some real machine-based learning via trial-and-error

And then again , how do you program for self-modification ?

Robot-Sex , Male competition , Hypnotizing Females ...

AI would form its own Fermi Paradox : If there is intelligent life , then why aren't they answering ?

4) The government uses their military to take what they need , then handles out IOU's for it
5) They try to inflate the value out of it by favoring those that can "store a.k.a decirculate" the most IOU's and making these exceptions the norm , thereby reducing the "perceived" value .This means that the "top 1%" will allways need to be "reduced" ad infinitum
6) Those that see through this don't matter if they do or don't comply , the only question is : DO YOU LIKE THE PAPERWORK ?

CyberSpace Rules !

She is however sensible , rtfa

Hey man ,

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

Anything is possible

I doubt Google ever made a profit from their hardware ,

but they paved the way for others to step in.

Valve is it's own carrier in this respect.

And it will find producers and marketing to sell something other than a hacked-together pc clone

"something related to a game with a 3 in the title methinks."

  Uhhm , Portal 3 ? Left for Dead 3 ? Help me out here Gordon ....

(Its Free Man !!!)

The brain has evolved around the interplay between sensory input and motory activation.
Computers have neither.

So it's thinking would be a whole different class.

So its upon humans to decide upon the input and the desired output.

This would only make sense if you aim for an output that cannot humanly be predicted from its input.

So the output would be an unknown

How do you then verify the validity of such an output ?

You can't , apart from crosschecking with a similar setup.

But the interpretation of this output must be verified in real life .

So the only way to validate a thinking war computer would be to start that war.

And for some that would be the desired output , only to be decided upon by politicians.

Yet the politician is then not allowed to trust upon the computer data for obvious reasons of indepence

The reverse argument holds :
Being 1000x dummer ,
  we are unaware of their visitations up to now

having mediocre *basic* knowledge about something that's used in pretty much every field would actually be the norm (Basic statistics ...?)

Thank you , that is the perfect analogy to this article ...

This article reeks of Heisenberg Uncertainty ...

Maximal effect , minimal impact

Yes , we are on the right track , Blarny.

What about : the meaning of the trip is in the travelling and not in the destination ?

Being a non - english native ,
  it took me some years to understand that this is not intentional ....

" ... Gates is not so much a wizard of technology as a wizard of precognition , of discerning the shape of the next game ..."

I see bussiness

These are exciting times we live on

Logic enters the 4th dimension