Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI 274
If the thought of a robot apocalypse is keeping you up at night, you can relax. Scientists at Cambridge University are studying the potential problem. From the article: "A center for 'terminator studies,' where leading academics will study the threat that robots pose to humanity, is set to open at Cambridge University.
Its purpose will be to study the four greatest threats to the human species - artificial intelligence, climate change, nuclear war and rogue biotechnology."
Don't put it on the internet (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever you do, please don't publish the results on the internet where any self-aware robot can find them! It's probably already too late anyway and terminators from the future are already compiling their hit list.
Re:Don't put it on the internet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm done. Where's my million dollar grant? (Score:5, Funny)
To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem.
So machines (or people) destroying humanity would provide a valid solution.
Re:Don't put it on the internet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is AI on the list? (Score:5, Funny)
"We had created the first strong AI. we hard wired it's fitness function to seek seeing a live humans smile...
now we live under the gun turrets, anyone who doesn't look cheery enough gets shot or worse... gets sent for 'modification'.
implantation of wires into the pleasure centres of their brains if they're lucky.
surgical alteration of the muscles in their faces if they're not"