One step closer to Skynet?

[jonathan7]

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle5649731.ece



Thoughts on the world fastest computer yet? Does amuse me, that we are using it for weapons... I'd use it for games

[RedHawke]

As long as it doesn't become self-aware at 2:14 am EST on August 29, 1997 we should be ok?

Edit: I watched T2 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much! lol

[jonathan7]

Originally Posted by RedHawke

As long as it doesn't become self-aware at 2:14 am EST on August 29, 1997 we should be ok?

You Forget... Terminator 3

Originally Posted by RedHawke

Edit: I watched T2 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much! lol

Who hasn't? It's only between that and Aliens for best action-sci-fi film ever.

[mimartin]

Originally Posted by RedHawke

As long as it doesn't become self-aware at 2:14 am EST on August 29, 1997 we should be ok?

I believe we are on an alternate time line by now.

I kept hearing: “You want to play a game?,” playing in my head while reading the article.

[Pho3nix]

Originally Posted by RedHawke

As long as it doesn't become self-aware at 2:14 am EST on August 29, 1997 we should be ok?

Edit: I watched T2 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much! lol

so true.

I actually don't think the idea is that far-fetched, though I don't think any AI would become self-aware just yet. Maybe 20-30 years from now.

Originally Posted by jonathan7

You Forget... Terminator 3

I don't count that one into official Terminator canon for obvious reasons.

[Prime]

It doesn't have to be self award for us to lose control

[RedHawke]

Originally Posted by jonathan7

You Forget... Terminator 3

Yes... yes I have...

Kristanna Loken is the only reason to watch it... then the end makes me wanna vomit. Worse than Highlander 2... coming from me that indeed is saying something.

From what I have heard the Sarah Connor Chronicles is forgetting T3 as well, so that might make it worth watching, perhaps on DVD when it comes out and I have the spare dough.

Originally Posted by mimartin

I kept hearing: “You want to play a game?,” playing in my head while reading the article.

I would have played Theaterwide Tactical Warfare myself... but I'm silly like that!

[Darth333]

Originally Posted by Prime

It doesn't have to be self award for us to lose control

QFE...We, humanity, are quite capable of dooming ourselves without the help of any machine.

[Tommycat]

Originally Posted by mimartin

I believe we are on an alternate time line by now.

I kept hearing: “You want to play a game?,” playing in my head while reading the article.

[nitpick]I think it was "Shall we play a game"[/nitpick]

And after that movie.. I'd pick chess

At any rate, many of our technological leaps came from military applications. It isn't surprising really. I mean the first computer(electronic computer) came from the Navy(When that thing had a bug in the system... it was usually a moth). GPS that's used in cars and all kinds of devices came from the military.

[Darth Avlectus]

Originally Posted by jonathan7

Thoughts on the world fastest computer yet? Does amuse me, that we are using it for weapons... I'd use it for games

Agreed...

It is amazing and I would never have been able to dream of such capabilities--hell, the ipod nano I'm still kind of no over--how it can power earphones so well and strong and hold all that music--yet STILL be THAT small.

OR that we now have 1, 2, or even 3 TERRA BYTE hard drives that are portable or that we casually use for memory.

Originally Posted by RedHawke

As long as it doesn't become self-aware at 2:14 am EST on August 29, 1997 we should be ok?

Edit: I watched T2 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much! lol

Originally Posted by mimartin

I believe we are on an alternate time line by now.

Are you certain?

I kept hearing: “You want to play a game?,” playing in my head while reading the article.

As did I.

Originally Posted by Prime

It doesn't have to be self award for us to lose control

Originally Posted by Darth333

QFE...We, humanity, are quite capable of dooming ourselves without the help of any machine.

Exactly. We could do a quite thorough job of condemning ourselves without the help of terminators.

So long as we keep relatively close to this in our current spiritual state, we should be okay.

[CommanderQ]

Oy, this is becoming a bit too much like T2 indeed...all we need now is for some robot from the future trying to kill someone around here....I wonder who....

This technology is probably jsut the beginning to a much larger and more advanced age of technology. This is technically just the beginning, imagine...10-20 years from now....

Well, let's hope that this technology is only good to a certain degree, like what Redhawke said,"I have watched T2 too many times."

[RedHawke]

The thing is if they could take your mind and pattern it into something like the T-X would you do so? That is a very compelling question...

Originally Posted by Tommycat

[nitpick]I think it was "Shall we play a game"[/nitpick]

Yup it was...

[mimartin]

Originally Posted by Tommycat

[nitpick]I think it was "Shall we play a game"[/nitpick]

Originally Posted by RedHawke

Yup it was...

How do either of you know what was playing in my head?

I stand corrected.

[Tommycat]

Originally Posted by mimartin

How do either of you know what was playing in my head?

I stand corrected.

I'm in your brains.
eating your thoughts.