The Atlantic sets the stage for the 'scary season' (the election, not Halloween) with a piece on machine intelligence, echoing Bill Joy's classic article
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-consequences-of-ma chine-intelligence/264066/ No Joy here: "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html> " http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html And now that the Governator is back on the streets, and the real Terminator is being perfected faster than suspected ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=FFGfq0pRczY&feature=etp-pd-nxx-62 Woooo.... Just in time for the LENR power module to make it fully autonomous (as long as it avoids metal stamping presses)... ... so all in all - I'd have to opine that future is pretty scary, even without hundreds of little gremlins and witches prowling the streets with bags full of candy... ....and the scare may not be that far away - no matter who gets elected.
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