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But who's computer brain are we talking about? Stephen Hawking? Read on.
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There are only a handful of scientific revolutions that would really change the world. An immortality pill would be one. A time machine would be another.
Faster-than-light travel, allowing the stars to be explored in a human lifetime, would be on the shortlist, too.
To my mind, however, the creation of an artificial mind would probably trump all of these - a development that would throw up an array of bewildering and complex moral and philosophical quandaries. Amazingly, it might also be within reach.
For while time machines, eternal life potions and Star Trek-style warp drives are as far away as ever, a team of scientists in Switzerland is claiming that a fully-functioning replica of a human brain could be built by 2020.
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They'd better be careful of just what kind of brain computer they build. We've all seen computers go crazy in movies. HAL9000 in 2001, Colossus in the Forbin Project, and any number of robots run amok in Hollywood scifi flicks.
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Suppose they create a computer that fits the current age?. What if, instead of a Hawking model, some nerd builds the worlds fastest thinking...Paris Hilton?
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"OMG, I just got a packet from that hunky server down the hall, He's HOT, he always sends his bytes in such great stacked order, did you see that new laptop in accounting, what a trashy bitch, she's all red and shiny, and there is no way her 17 inch screen is "natural", totally after market..."
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Scary proposition that.
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Schteveo
6 comments:
Don't forget Skynet in Terminator! Montana anyone?
Exactly, but Skynet wasn't a single computer, it was distributed software.
Same deal though, thinking computers running amok.
A brain attached to a computer is basically Stephen Hawking. His body is kept alive, outside of typical government healthcare.
A computer capable of conscious thought is many, many years away, if at all possible.
Hawking is an idiot and has ended up wrong about everything he ever proposed.
I know several people who have artificial minds.
No no no Schteevo .. Skynet was an AI that distributed itself as a virus. It began as one computer but it took it upon itself to spread itself throughout the world .. then destroyed it. I think we can agree that if you create a virtual brain, do NOT give it internet access!
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