[MD] Heads or tails?

[Hamilton Priday]

[Case]:
> Machine intelligences are emerging from the activities of humans.
> At present they expand the human memory and are transforming
> our culture. They serve as extensions of our own awareness,
> memory and memory processing capabilities. They are a higher
> order emerging from a lower one.
> ...you are correct to some extent in that at present when we talk
> about artificial intelligence, the machine part is artificial and we are
> the intelligence. But I would say that to the extent that we like to
> be smug about this our days are numbered.

I ran across this article by Michael Hanlon [Daily Mail] posted on today's 
Drudge Reports: "What would happen if the robots turned against us?"

"Most people believe a robot has to look like a human, but this is not the 
case.
All it needs to be is artificial, capable of "intelligent" behaviour, 
preferably able to move and, most importantly, be capable of being 
re-programmed to carry out a wide variety of tasks with a degree of 
autonomy.
The idea that robots may also possess a sense of self-awareness has been a 
mainstay of science fiction since the days of Capek. ...

"It was Isaac Asimov who explored most fully the possible future 
relationship between man and intelligent machines.
In his books, the issue of "robot rights" was first aired, as was the thorny 
question of how humans could be protected should the machines decide to turn 
on their makers."

You can read the complete article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

(For the sake of humanity, it's time we humans organized a protest movement 
to ban humanoids ;-]

--Ham