"The Greatest!" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 09:08:23 UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 2:31:48 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 9:06:36 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > > dsi1 wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ophelia wrote:
> > > > > Support themselves and their families? If machines become so
> > > > > clever,
> > > > > why
> > > > > will they need humans? We might be dispensable.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > What do you mean by "might?" My guess is that a few milliseconds
> > > > after
> > > > an AI machine achieves self-awareness, it's going to realize that
> > > > humans are mostly dispensable/disposable and it will start planning
> > > > our demise. That's the breaks. That's the way it always turns out
> > > > when
> > > > a group of people meet up with another group with superior
> > > > technology.
> > > > In this case, the machines ARE the superior technology.
> > >
> > > Have you two geniuses never seen the "Terminator" movies? The
> > > scenario
> > > has already been thought of. dsi1 needn't guess. He's no Nostradamus,
> > > imo.
> >
> > You're right - this idea has been around since the 50's. Thanks for
> > bring
> > up the Terminator movies. You're one of those folks that get most of
> > their
> > info about the world from blockbuster movies. Truly, that can be called
> > intelligence most artificial. It's a mentality that has brought the US
> > to
> > the choice it has to make this day in the voting booth.
> >
> > You're in no position to crow about your intelligence.
>
> Why not use a pop culture reference that is likely to be understood
> by most people? Using something like R.U.R. would just be showing
> off. Not, mind you, that I'm proud of my erudition or anything.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
> =======================
>
> Please tell me what R.U.R means?


It's an early 20's (IIRC) play by the Czech Karel Capek, _Rossum's Universal
Robots_...it's the first mention of a "robot" in the modern sense. IIRC the
word "robot" is derived from the Slavic root word, "rabot", or "work"...

PS: the above is from memory, I did not Wiki it...!!!

;-)

Greg
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Ehhh tha's a clever lad) Thanks, Greg)



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