The Black Vault

"... the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decision for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better result than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."

It’s only a question of time before artificial brains overtake
our biological brains and become selfaware.
Within a decade we should be able to
assemble an artificial brain with the same
level of complexity and connectivity as the
human brain.

2045

Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines

[...]

The line between man and machine is starting to blur. Later this century, there will no longer be a clear distinction.

So I think sometime in the 2030, 2040, 2050 timeframe, we're able to say, "Here's a computer for about $1000 that has computing power of the human brain." And by then, we've also come up with the algorithms that actually let us do something with all that computing power in an intelligent way. Then if you just follow that curve, in around 2100, say, you have a million human intelligences in a box, or in a speck, [laughs] however big it is, on your desk. It costs $500. We'll see if all that actually comes to pass. But I think around 2040, plus or minus ten years, you have human intelligence on a chip.

DIss0n80r wrote:Humans are a cowardly lot who will gladly trade their individuality for the immortality promised by machine intelligence.

DIss0n80r wrote:If such a non-computable aspect exists then YOU might be fine and dandy, and the machine version of YOU will just be another vehicle except with better bells and whistles.