James Cameron got it all right....

kevhed72
kevhed72 Posts: 5,047
edited February 2011 in The Clubhouse
In the Terminator movies. I am watching Jeopardy and Watson the Computer is crushing the humans...not even close people. We are all doomed....
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  • Earthy
    Earthy Posts: 488
    edited February 2011
    Yup, we are doomed. That is if we live a life of jeopardy, or chess. When a computer can feel emotion from listening to a pair of SDA SRS speakers, then we are truly doomed.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    Stephen King before Cameron...

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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited February 2011
    Earthy wrote: »
    Yup, we are doomed. That is if we live a life of jeopardy, or chess. When a computer can feel emotion from listening to a pair of SDA SRS speakers, then we are truly doomed.

    only half the equasion - or when we stop feeling it....

    With the current trend of compressed music - I think that is a lot more likely...
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,392
    edited February 2011
    I think the Wachoski Brothers are a little closer to reality. Once the machines are smart enough to know we can be used a 70+ year Duracell, your days will be numbered. Are you ready for the Matrix?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2011
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I think the Wachoski Brothers are a little closer to reality. Once the machines are smart enough to know we can be used a 70+ year Duracell, your days will be numbered. Are you ready for the Matrix?

    I know you're joking, but of all the absurd things in those movies, that entire premise is by far the most absurd. The idea that it would be most cost and energy efficient to feed humans food so that we create energy rather than just harnessing the energy directly from the food we would eat violates every law of energy there is.

    /nerd rage
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,392
    edited February 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I know you're joking, but of all the absurd things in those movies, that entire premise is by far the most absurd. The idea that it would be most cost and energy efficient to feed humans food so that we create energy rather than just harnessing the energy directly from the food we would eat violates every law of energy there is.

    /nerd rage


    The machines may learn benevolence and may believe that such an existance saves us from ourselves.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,047
    edited February 2011
    Earthy wrote: »
    Yup, we are doomed. That is if we live a life of jeopardy, or chess. When a computer can feel emotion from listening to a pair of SDA SRS speakers, then we are truly doomed.

    The thing is...when Deep Blue crushed the humans at chess, we were quick to dismiss it as 'of course computers are better at mathematical computations'. Watson is able to pull data from millions (or was it billions) of pages of information instantly and come up the correct answer with amazing accuracy. Robots have already replaced humans in many labor intensive jobs. Hell, we are on the path to all music being produced by computers....music has become less of an art and more of a business nowadays.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2011
    Don't worry, the Coen brothers and their Big Lebowski will rescue us :biggrin:
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  • On3s&amp;Z3r0s
    On3s&amp;Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited February 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I know you're joking, but of all the absurd things in those movies, that entire premise is by far the most absurd. The idea that it would be most cost and energy efficient to feed humans food so that we create energy rather than just harnessing the energy directly from the food we would eat violates every law of energy there is.

    /nerd rage

    Yeah, I thought that did show a fairly poor understanding of thermodynamics. :mad: Just kiddin... I can't get too worked up over bad premises in sci-fi movies or I'd never be able to watch a sci fi movie.

    Besides, we're way more likely to do that to ourselves, like all the folks on the space cruiser in Wall-E. The machines are just happy to let us turn ourselves into vegetables.

    Not to mention, is it really accurate to keep referring to the Wachowskis as brothers? :wink:
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  • On3s&amp;Z3r0s
    On3s&amp;Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited February 2011
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    The thing is...when Deep Blue crushed the humans at chess, we were quick to dismiss it as 'of course computers are better at mathematical computations'. Watson is able to pull data from millions (or was it billions) of pages of information instantly and come up the correct answer with amazing accuracy. Robots have already replaced humans in many labor intensive jobs. Hell, we are on the path to all music being produced by computers....music has become less of an art and more of a business nowadays.

    I think it's still a ways off before computers are doing much in the way of creative thought... they're pretty good at identifying and reproducing patterns, but a machine's not going to come up with a piece of music by itself that most people would want to listen to anytime soon. On the other hand, I think teaching a machine to recognize the sonic signature of "emotional" passages of music would be fairly easy, more like what they're actually doing with Watson.
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