[CS-FSLUG] NI: Scary predictions!

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----

> 'We don't know how to do it yet but we've begun looking in 
> the same directions, for example at the techniques we think 
> that consciousness is based on: information comes in from the 
> outside world but also from other parts of your brain and 
> each part processes it on an internal sensing basis. 
> Consciousness is just another sense, effectively, and that's 
> what we're trying to design in a computer. Not everyone 
> agrees, but it's my conclusion that it is possible to make a 
> conscious computer with superhuman levels of intelligence 
> before 2020.'

It will be interesting to see how God uses this to bring glory to
Himself. I picture it, in my limited human mind, as God just making it
impossible but dropping clues of Himself every step of the study of the
brain as we try to simulate it. Personality should be an especially
interesting area to watch. I'm mostly interested in communication with a
machine without the usage of my digits. This is actually already rather
advanced, just not marketable.

I'd like to have a Linux box I could strap to my body and use hands-free
while riding the metro. You know, the one where the screen is integrated
into my glasses. Oh yeah, it needs to be internet connected so I could
also use it to replace my cell phone. I don't see getting this into the
market at an affordable price by 2015. (You do realize I say this so I
can be proven horribly incorrect?)

JSR/