Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?

New Age Vapors — 9/12/2007 2:33:39 PM (archived)

Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?

Reason Online September 11, 2007

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By 2030, or by 2050 at the latest,
will a super-smart artificial
intelligence decide to keep humans
around as pets? Will it instead
choose to turn the entire Earth,
including the messy organic bits
like us, into computronium? Or is
there a third alternative? These
were some of the questions pondered
by the 600 or so technosavants
meeting in the...

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Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? - New Age Vapors - 9/12/2007 2:33:39 PM
- Some interesting opinions: The Singularity Summit 2007 - Jody - 9/14/2007 4:57:26 PM
- re: Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? - Robert Clark - 9/13/2007 6:29:46 PM
- As long as they feed me and provide a flea collar I'll have no complaints. Woof!!! (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/12/2007 9:05:06 PM
  - Just pet me...;) (n/t) - Jody - 9/13/2007 12:05:35 PM
    - If only anglo-saxons knew what the word "pet" meant...in french:-))))) (n/t) - Raoul - 9/14/2007 5:58:58 PM
      - Ha! - New Age Vapors - 9/14/2007 6:56:01 PM
        
        All right now...you HAVE to tell me!!! - Jody - 9/14/2007 8:29:07 PM
        
        No, more like the Spanish "pedo". - ER - 9/15/2007 12:59:38 AM
- If so, it can only be attributed to human logic (n/t) - Raoul - 9/12/2007 3:21:06 PM
  - There's no logic to keeping pets -- it's 100% emotion. (n/t) - Fox - 9/12/2007 5:38:08 PM
    - Not really. - ER - 9/12/2007 6:58:22 PM
      - That's domestication - Fox - 9/13/2007 3:47:48 AM
        
        What's the difference? - ER - 9/13/2007 1:21:25 PM
        
        A Boy and His Dog - Fox - 9/13/2007 3:12:14 PM
        
        Excellent analysis - ER - 9/13/2007 3:37:36 PM
        
        Research notes - Fox - 9/13/2007 6:26:43 PM
        
        re: Research notes - ER - 9/14/2007 11:20:06 AM
    - Hmm, yes....emotions are part of human logic, aren't they? (n/t) - Raoul - 9/12/2007 5:54:42 PM
      - Logic, no. Human? Absolutely! - Fox - 9/13/2007 3:56:46 AM
        
        I agree (n/t) - Jody - 9/13/2007 12:07:21 PM
      - Enhancing Evolution - New Age Vapors - 9/12/2007 7:19:11 PM
        
        re: Enhancing Evolution - Jody - 9/13/2007 4:31:39 AM
        
        Amazing - New Age Vapors - 9/13/2007 6:34:20 PM
        
        Not really - Fox - 9/13/2007 7:40:23 PM
        
        Okay - New Age Vapors - 9/14/2007 1:49:43 PM
        
        I don't think there are any artilects. - ER - 9/14/2007 3:45:56 PM
        
        If you don't want me responding to you just say so. (n/t) - Jody - 9/13/2007 7:15:39 PM
        
        No... - New Age Vapors - 9/13/2007 7:38:21 PM
        
        AIs May Call Virtual Worlds Home - New Age Vapors - 9/18/2007 1:49:05 PM

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