[LINK] The Robots Are Coming, And They Are Replacing Workers

[Jan Whitaker]

If you missed it, get a copy of Transcendence 
with Johnny Depp. It's not just the robots we 
should be watching out for, or aliens. The film 
poses a lot of ethical questions about the power of AI combined with nano tech.

Jan

At 10:03 AM 26/05/2014, Jim Birch wrote:

>On Kim Holburn quoth:
>
> > > The robots are coming, and they are going to take millions of our jobs.
>
>
>Or, as Stephen Hawking, wrote recently:
>
>“If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, ‘We'll arrive
>in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here ­
>we'll leave the lights on’?  Probably nnot, but this is more or less what is
>happening with AI.”
>
>Jim
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Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, 
you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space 
between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer

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