[Carlhole]

Conference Examines Man and Machine Merging, How Tech Will Make Human Brain Obsolete

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ew conference examines what risks super intelligent robots might hold and how man itself may merge with machine to the point where it is no longer recognizable as human

A group of the international community's brightest research minds will meet Thursday at the four-day Global Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford University in England. The conference, the first of its kind, will aim to provide thought provoking discussion and analysis on how risks could lead to the end of human life or the end of our planet as we know it.

Topics at the diverse summit will include issues such as nuclear and chemical terrorism and what mankind could do if a large asteroid was headed towards Earth. The final day of the conference will perhaps be the most exciting as it discusses how new technologies, including hypothetical super-intelligent robots, could destroy mankind and life as we know it.

Dr. Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, host of the symposium, is fearful that mankind may eventually create such a machine, capable of destroying its creators. He states, "Any entity which is radically smarter than human beings would also be very powerful. If we get something wrong, you could imagine the consequences would involve the extinction of the human species."...

[Carlhole]

Global Catastrophic Risk Conference

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CNN', ' ')LONDON, England (CNN) -- A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.

They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the end of human life on Earth as we know it. Speakers at the four-day event at Oxford University in Britain will talk about topics including nuclear terrorism and what to do if a large asteroid were to be on a collision course with our planet.

On the final day of the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference, experts will focus on what could be the unintended consequences of new technologies, such as superintelligent machines that, if ill-conceived, might cause the demise of Homo sapiens.

[PenultimateManStanding]

lol

[PenultimateManStanding]

That Terminator is OUT THERE and he won't stop until YOU ARE DEAD!.

[steam_cannon]

Becoming obsolete, what a way to go...

Terminator vs Robocop vs Predator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUSbId7Earc

[kpeavey]

The human brain became obsolete decades ago, enhanced by the development of the television and fast food.

[Kingcoal]

Check out my take on this:

Final Solution?

[Blewbird]

"everything that has a beginning has an end"

and

the war is about to end "one way or another."