One of the most captivating storylines in science fiction involves a nightmarish vision of the future in which autonomous killer robots turn on their creators and threaten the extinction of the human race. Hollywood blockbusters such as Terminator and The Matrix are versions of this [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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It’s a well thought out piece save for the fact tech accelerates at double exponential rates and form factors for creating really deadly bots is changing as we speak. The part of this piece that really frightening is autonomy.
Click hhttp://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html
to see why. Read the query part, most enlightening to be sure.
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