Pre-Skynet is born.

[Hizumi]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0712133330.htm

In 2009, at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), researchers in the lab of Regina Barzilay, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, took the best-paper award for a system that generated scripts for installing a piece of software on a Windows computer by reviewing instructions posted on Microsoft's help site. At this year's ACL meeting, Barzilay, her graduate student S. R. K. Branavan and David Silver of University College London applied a similar approach to a more complicated problem: learning to play "Civilization," a computer game in which the player guides the development of a city into an empire across centuries of human history. When the researchers augmented a machine-learning system so that it could use a player's manual to guide the development of a game-playing strategy, its rate of victory jumped from 46 percent to 79 percent.

TL;DR

The computer read a Manual to Civilization and learned how to play despite not knowing the game beforehand


IT WAS ALSO WINNING CONSISTENTLY.

[firesnowball]

That's actually kind of scary considering the fact that Civilization is the game of politics, diplomacy, religion, nukes and world domination - all major facets of everyday life.

On a related note, I would like to welcome our new binary based overlords.

[Proxzor]

That's actually kind of scary considering the fact that Civilization is the game of politics, diplomacy, religion, nukes and world domination - all major facets of everyday life.

On a related note, I would like to welcome our new binary based overlords.

In 20 years everything will be calculated by computers...

[Ouriel]

Prepare for more job losses and human extinction.

[firesnowball]

I actually had an interesting chat about this the other day. What happens when everyones job is taken by a computer and the world is completely automated. Do humans go away? Does the world turn red and become a soviet russia under the control of the machines? Are computers our ultimate downfall?

[Oisterman]

Yes, we're phasing ourselves out.

No sarcasm.

Srsly.

[xBlazex]

I actually had an interesting chat about this the other day. What happens when everyones job is taken by a computer and the world is completely automated. Do humans go away? Does the world turn red and become a soviet russia under the control of the machines? Are computers our ultimate downfall?

computer cant replace humans. if they do that then no one have money to buy there stuff they go bankrupt

[Oisterman]

computer cant replace humans. if they do that then no one have money to buy there stuff they go bankrupt

Whos to say we're not dumb enough to let that happen?

Half our jobs are already outsourced or done by a machine? Where do we draw the line?

[Satio]

We already have customer service jobs being taken out for automated shopping, just go to Wal-Mart. Those are the job any average joe like you and me can get and soon you'll be reminiscing on the old days on how they were so easy to obtain.

Robots may not be able to replace humans because then who will build the robots? But we are taking steps closer to a cybernetic age where our lives may revolve around machine. We've seen signs already where people have prosthetic limbs replacing those who have had accidents or were effected by a birth defect. These sort of things are gonna make it hard for the average to survive but the pioneers of our future are going to live like kings and queens.

[Spunkify]

The question is did the program cheat and look at potential outcomes to its moves based on the programming patterns present in the games code. Similar to the chess program.

[Ouriel]

Sometimes(or often?) the scientists are doing more bad to this world than good.
Having an automated intelligent human like robots(not currently, but in the future) could replace us as the working power and they to be the new working power. If they are intelligent, then they could probably invent robots to be able to fix those other robots(assumption) and completely replacing the humans.

Having an robotic arm or leg is acceptable, but this kind of thing, I find it to be absurd and inacceptable. Those scientists should stop watching that kind of movies imo, because movies =/= real life.

[Eusnon]

*Takes out pump shotgun* Bring it =.=

But I doubt robots would be able to overthrow us unless they launch nuclear attacks or some kinda chemical warfare and really I'd say 100 years or so before any real threats come around.

[firesnowball]

Sometimes(or often?) the scientists are doing more bad to this world than good.
Having an automated intelligent human like robots(not currently, but in the future) could replace us as the working power and they to be the new working power. If they are intelligent, then they could probably invent robots to be able to fix those other robots(assumption) and completely replacing the humans.

Having an robotic arm or leg is acceptable, but this kind of thing, I find it to be absurd and inacceptable. Those scientists should stop watching that kind of movies imo, because movies =/= real life.

Machines print circuit boards, Machines print microchips. Once they can think for themselves, they could design and adapt faster then anyone can imagine.