Beyond Invention

galad · 03-03-05, 01:46 PM

Did anyone happen to watch beyond invention, on the discovery channel this afternoon?

They were interviewing a company that makes software for computers. What this company has been working on is making programs such as simple fish at first that can think for themselves.

AI fish that are born as a program that has to learn for itself how to swim, hunt, find a mate, reproduce, and avoid predators. All on its own without any human interference.They are all placed in a tank Predators, prey, and bottom feeders.

They then moved on to a Mer-man that has the learn how to avoid getting eaten by a shark hunting him.

The stage they are at now is making AI stunt men. That can perform all the stunts that real stunt men will not do.
They have theyre own personality and the abitlity to act on theyre own, putting theyre own flare into what-ever they are preforming. SO pretty much able to think for themselves, and maybe even able to get upset, or mad.

What really got me was when asked if these artifical life forms could maybe start to create problemes in the future, for human beings. BEing so smart and maybe not liking they way we were controlling them.
They replied. "Well, yes i geusse that could be a possible out come in the future. But hopefully we will be prepared for such things."

Not a direct qoute I watched it half hour ago but that's pretty much what they were saying.
They might have the ability to turn on us in the future, I just hope we are ready.

If theyre is such possibilities why do they continue to do through on these projects. Oh yes what am i think MONEY.
Its like they dont even care about the future they arent going to be here.

????????

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Asian Jon · 03-03-05, 02:05 PM

I was watching that a while back. It is very mind boggling. They use highly complicated mathematical equations which I could not even imagine what they would look like. It's an impressive acheivement IMO, but I think they should just stick with the fish simulations to avoid uncertainties for the future.

galad · 03-03-05, 03:13 PM

yea no kidding especially if they already think there is the possiblities of the computers getting out of control.
I doubt it will turn into anything like the matrix, obviously.
But they could still get onto the internet somehow and mess everything up from there. Thats the downfall of having our everyday lives controlled by computers. Now we want to make them smart. Riiiiiiiighht .

lol

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