Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

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SCIENTISTS WORRY MACHINES MAY OUTSMART MANJuly 26, 2009The New York Times reports: “A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.As examples, the scientists pointed to a number of technologies as diverse as experimental medical systems that interact with patients to simulate empathy, and computer worms and viruses that defy extermination and could thus be said to have reached a ‘cockroach’ stage of machine intelligence.While the computer scientists agreed that we are a long way from Hal, the computer that took over the spaceship in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ they said there was legitimate concern that technological progress would transform the work force by destroying a widening range of jobs, as well as force humans to learn to live with machines that increasingly copy human behaviors.The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon…”
 

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There are people in this world today, some in places least expceted, in governments and banks, the wealthy and the poor, who want the world to live in fear, because when people are afraid it is easy to control them. If its not terrorism, its the greenhouse, or disease, or smart robots, ot computer viruses, actually not worried aboyt computere viruses , if the whole internet went down it would be the best thing that ever happened.In His Love
 

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During WWII, a large number of folk were employed to calibrate the artillary prior to it's being shipped to the battlefield.
These people, most of whom were women, created mathematical charts for each artillery type which could be quickly referenced in battle.
They collated data and used adding machines and slide rules to make the necessary calculations.
These people were called 'computers'.

The first computer bug was an actual insect that became trapped in an electronic relay, causing it to malfunction.

There is an old axiom in the computer business that most people have forgotten; garbage in - garbage out.
The computer is only as good as the data you put into it.

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The strange thing about computers is that they were initially developed to help with the government census.

There's nothing wrong with that is there? Maybe not. Or just maybe, there is a Biblical precedent against it.

Did not satan cause David to sin against the Lord by taking a census of Israel? (1 Chr 21:1)
What happened to him and his people when he did that very thing?

Did this scene establish some sort of precedent? On the surface it doesn't appear to.

On the other hand, the point in Kings is clearly made that dependence upon strength in numbers rather than dependence upon God's good grace is a stumbling point.
Oddly, it does seem that respect and dependence upon God falls in direct ratio to the rise in man's dependence upon computers (the work of our own hands).
 

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I believe that sci-fi movies are often based upon secret technologies that actually exist. I.E. biometrics. The near future should be very frightening to non-Christians. The Mark is a logical conclusion for this OUT OF CONTROL world. Control!

Revelation 13:7 (NKJV)
[sup]7[/sup] And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.