[LINK] Rise of the machines

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Thu Mar 15 08:24:25 AEDT 2012


From: 
<http://theconversation.edu.au/rise-of-the-machines-how-computers-could-control-our-lives-5838>.
> ... I confidently predict that machines will come to run our lives.  ...
The root problem, it seems to me, is that computers are programmed by 
people. Even with heuristics, situations arise for which no provision 
has been made. The consequences defy prediction.

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                                     | "Things could be worse."
http://david.boxall.id.au            | So I cheered up and,
                                     | Sure enough, things got worse.
                                     |              --Murphy's musing




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