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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11703662/Threat-from-Artificial-Intelligence-not-just-Hollywood-fantasy.html

Astro: Here we go again! Atlas, will you stop antagonizing the humans?!

Atlas: What?! Don't you point your finger at me on this one, I haven't done anything.

Astro: Spray-painting Tokugawa's headquarters flamboyant pink?

Atlas: Oh wow....I've started a war now. You'd think they would have launched nuclear weapons when I encased Daichi's 1966 Austin Martin in a block of epoxy.

Where is Asimov when we need him?

I think that the word 'tirade' is not quite fair in describing the very real fears or cautions expressed in the article. Moreover, it has not now just begun. Both Frankenstein & R.U.R. covered it, long before computers & robots as we know them were even scifi.

"jeffbert" wrote:I think that the word 'tirade' is not quite fair in describing the very real fears or cautions expressed in the article. Moreover, it has not now just begun. Both Frankenstein & R.U.R. covered it, long before computers & robots as we know them were even scifi.

Add "Colossus the Forbin project",and of course the "Terminator" films.