Robot Independence

[petek]

Originally Posted by Tim Baird

I thought this http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html was pretty interesting. Short, but interesting.

5 Points to anyone that can actually find the study released by the British Government. I'd like to see how they forecasted the estimated date of when the robot revolution would occur.

Ta-dah! Looks like we'll have to dig through the references to see how they came up with the date, though.
[edit]The timeframe appears to have been drawn from:

Originally Posted by Soskis (http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_sokis_janfeb05.msp

)]"Strong A.I." is the theory that machines can be built that will not merely act as if conscious, but will actually be conscious, and advocates of this view envision a two-front assault on the fortress of human exceptionalism involving both the physical and functional properties of the brain. And these researchers predict a breach within the next half-century.

It looks to me like the people behind the UK report researched a few technical and legal papers spanning the past 25 years and issued a report on those papers' speculations.

Originally Posted by Tim Baird

Either way, I'm installing an EMP in the Audi today after work.

Is your Audi drive-by-wire, by any chance? Mine is. Which means the engine management computer is between your right foot and the throttle. Just like the OI and RC between the joystick and the motors on our robots. Not to mention that the computer controls the ABS and traction control. At what point does a car stop being just a car and becomes a mobile robot?

Better not draw power for that EMP from the car!