Thy shalt not
Thy shalt not make a machine in the image of a man's mind!
The company which built the first ever internet nodes back in the 1960s – and which gave the world the "@" symbol in email, among other things – has been hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology which could mimic "the brain's ability to make sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information". Back in …
Damn, its obvious what will happen. Device takes lots of info feeds and detemines best course of action. Results;
1. Beer is bad for you.
2. Go with wind power
3. Lower your salt intake
4. Take more excercise
5. Get your 3 year old to take more excercise.
We know the above is boll@x, we just haven't had a machine tell us to do it.. yet...
"hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology which could mimic "the brain's ability to make sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information"."
I look forward to the day when beige computers everywhere, demand shiny lian li cases, and not because they look good!