On 16/10/2007, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of the reason AI has so much damaged credibility is that over the past > decades there have always been these predictions that by some year robots > will be doing this or robots will be doing that. Any idiot can make > predictions for 2050.
Yes this is very true. It's easy to make predictions knowing that it's unlikely that you'll have to live with the consequences. I could make all kinds of wacky predictions for 2050. Even if I'm still alive by then chances are that I'll be so old that I'll on longer care whether my predictions made over 40 years earlier turned out to be accurate or not. Will robots ever get married? Perhaps they will, although by the time strong AI arrives the concept of marriage will probably have changed significantly and encompass practices which are quite alien today, such as the merging of multiple minds into a collective entity through the use of direct interfaces with the brain. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=54248401-57ff57
