So, when do we get Fembot Fighter planes?

hey arent we suppost to be living on the moon already.

Its too bad that Lockheed, regardless of its record of evil things, doesn't have as ominously evil of a name as Cyberdyne or Skynet.

Of all the movies from my youth that could have come true, why does it have to be Terminator 2?

Skynet is already online its plotting the
destrution of mankind already (JK)
but in all truth its hard for me to believe that a robot can do a job better than a man

Gaining sentience is probably not gonna happen, but what about it being taken over by someone with bad intent?

You'd be amazed at the rate at which progress is being made in reverse engineering the human brain, and the fields of AI and robotics. In narrow fields of expertise, AI has ALREADY surpassed the human brain-box. Enormous leaps have been made in modeling human (or any) intelligence since Freud birthed Psychology, the study of how and why we think (and feel) the way we do. And mind you, he was still alive last century. To the informed observer, we will be witnessing the arrival of a concious, artificial entity within our lifetime. Gives you something to sleep on, eh?

-Johnny
Undergrad. MIT Media Labs :P

PS. Oh, and as for "but what about it being taken over by someone with bad intent?"

That's a big "IF", as iffy as "what if someone took over the US military?" "What if the Secret Service is penetrated by an Islamic militant sleeper-agent who's holding the President Hostage to Iran?" "What if we lost the Cold War?" "What if someone purchased or stole anthrax former Soviet Union weapons labs?" "What if an alleged madman is trying to coerce the US with ballistic nuclear weapons?" ... What if someone crashed a 400 metric ton airliner-turned-missile into a multibillion dollar building in the middle of NYC, killing thousands and spurred the US into a $600 billion war on terror halways around the globe?

They're all possible "IF"s. The last two are real. That's life, this is the real world. We can always try to protect ourselves, or preclude investigating certain technologies and inhibit their proliferation so that we dont have to. Humanity has always been under an existential threat, either from pandemics, climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, asteroid impacts, or Acts of God, but we've managed OK so far.

Welcome to the future

Makes you wonder what is being experimented with in the black budget programs.

That MIT undergrad thing is a nice touch. Is undergraduate your official title? If you wrote a book right now would you write, “By Johnny Polowski Undergrad MIT Media Labs"? No offense. All I have to say is: "I, Robot". Read it.

Randolph
MIT Applicant Mechanical Engineering

To the MIT Applicant... you are too hilarious :-O Criticising someone for posting that they go to MIT (Ad Hominem), and you haven't even started your career... lol

As for the subject at hand. Having taken advanced courses in neurology and semiconductor physics, I unfortunately have to say that we are still far... far... away from the reproducing genius of the human mind!

The fear of robots taking over the world... is just a displaced fear of the change occurring to our world through technology. An example of this, is how the best universities (MIT included) are just now beginning to teach robots how to walk. Other challenges such as reproduction, conscious, and developing a deep seeded hatred for their creators (Another displaced hatred of God!) have to be left to the minds of fictional stories :-(

I leave this war to the pens of your imagination, with the eternal hope that you forever strive to prove me wrong.

Yours truly,

Lucas Forget M.Sc. (Eng.)