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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I'm envisioning something almost exactly like today, just instead of carrying devices they'd be internal. I'm not sure that machines won't help us overcome our inherent nature, rather than destroy it. I don't think it's locked in stone that artificial intelligence will go the Terminator route... I think machines could make us better humans.
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Shortened your post up to address what I wanted to say, but... yes, we already see the technology being not just tested, but being proven in labs, and more... where machinery becomes one with a person.
One easy example is military jet fighter tech, where all a pilot has to do is look a certain direction and think a certain thing to get his craft to respond.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0527101454.htm
http://content.time.com/time/nation/...841108,00.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...e-here-355197/
Frankly, I believe this tech to be much further along than even these articles attest to.
As far as machines affecting our basic nature, I honestly believe they will negatively affect our inherent nature in an extremely negative way... people, both ourselves and others are not just bits of data.
I believe, as do many many others, that technology is
already making us a less personable and more disconnected from one another as a species... where a Facespace "friend" makes one feel like they're engaged with the world, when in fact you'll most likely never even meet that "friend", and if one does, you'll probably both spend all of that time too busy watching ones phone and worrying about all of your other "friends" to connect with the one in front of you.
As far as AI, even Elon Musk, a definite envelope pusher in the field of future tech, is literally scared to death of what it might mean/what it might become, and soon...