Will Computers Take Over Earth? Computers taking over the world

[Iceblade 0]

It's funny to say but, it can happen if technology will get smarter and smarter then computers might talk back to us and get angry almost like shown on Irobot when the robots take over..should this be stopped? Or are we just going to make stuff too advance

[MIGUE2k7 0]

Nah... Computers cant take over us cause them dont have any kind of artificial intelligence. Computers are just tools that helps the human to do certain tasks, but them are no robots.But maybe, someday in the future the human will make a robot with Artificial Intelligence that could develop the idea of conquer the world or something ... yea just if the human makes that big mistake.(or already there is something made by the human with AI? i doubt it)By now i dont wanna be afraid of my own computer

[darran 0]

Migue2k7 has a point. Computers won't be able to take over us, they are just tools to aid us in our work unless we program them with Artificial Intelligence (AI). A lot of video games nowadays are being built around this AI, fighting games, football games, all of these have AI programmed in it. But the similarity these things have are that AI is programmed in a particular aspect, for e.g sports games. the AI is programmed to counter your moves. For a robot to function, it has to be able to know how to react in certain situations and that would be very difficult. But never would they let a computer control us or have any thoughts of being more domineering than humans, we are smarter than computers.

[rvalkass 5]

It is unlikely we will get to the stage where we can socialise computers into society any time soon. The way a robot works and the way a human works are different, and I don't think we will see convincing human-like robots for many years to come. However, World leaders are moving closer and closer to adding computer controlled robots and such to their militaries, so I suppose they could be taking over the world with computers And even if robots did become incredibly powerful we have two failsafes: if Microsoft design their OS then they'll last 5 minutes, and we can always pull the plug.

[O_H 0]

Computers are only as good as the AI they have. It's safe to say it's not happening anytime soon.

[Iceblade 0]

Well the only bad part about everything in life now is that it has to be used with some computer technology

[roseysaidwhat 0]

I don't think so because there are always people who object to things.Same with computers, many people object to using computers and such because it doesn't go with what they "believe" in.Plus, what if everything turns into I, Robot?Scary thought.

[Spyda 0]

I feel that if technology continues on the path that is going in then Yes this will occur. Everybody knows this from scientists to writers like Ray Bradbury, who stress the importance of using technology to the fullest, but knowing there is a limit to how far we can go with it. Right now though, I feel we are at a good state in the technology buissiness and we do not have to fear of this occuring in our day and age, but as technolog progresses we are becoming more vunerable to such take overs that we need to be extremely cautious to this occuring cause it could happen in the near future when we are least expecting it!

[dundun2007 0]

Although computers are a big part of our society their intelligence is limited to what we want to supply them with. Every computer has an off switch too, in any case something like that could be shutdown. I always wondered what would happen if our whole network of computers shutoff for just one day what a big impact it would have on the world. If you think about it computers are everywhere; stores, your home, your car, & pretty much anywhere you go involves computers somehow. Yeah it all seems strange that none of this was even around back in the day, and look how far we have come.

[zak92 0]

Computers are evolving at an alarming speed and many people will in fact be sitting home because the factories they work in has hired computers instead of them. Also many people love the computer and are like addicts like me. I cannot live without a computer not even for a day. Computers cannot take over completely but will so in many fields.

[master_bacarra 0]

<br />Computers are evolving at an alarming speed and many people will in fact be sitting home because the factories they work in has hired computers instead of them. Computers cannot take over completely but will so in many fields.<br />

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well i agree with this one and some of the replies on this thread. computers can't take over completely. primary reason is that computers are created by man themselves. they create computers and program them in a way to perform functions faster and probably more efficient that humans. indeed they can take over in certain aspects such as working in factories. computers don't have the complete intelligence and ability to completely decide for themselves. i think the readers are misled by the phrase "take over" in the thread title. they are led to believe that computers can "take over" or rebel against humans and rule the world for themselves. they can "take over" in the sense that they can replace humans in certain functions that need a faster processing. humans can't work as fast as computers, which is enough for computers to replace them in their jobs, but it doesn't suffice that they can take over humans intellectually.

[street 0]

i doubt that computers will take over the world they are what we need to function but they will never become a problem where they will take over the world.

[Zues 0]

For a AI to try to conquer the Earth it would need AI coding for philosophizing, but then an AI specific in that would have no capabilities other then that. An AI can't just expand it's code to give it AI code for anything else, since that would be creativity and computers can't have that. I'm more afraid of some virueses or trojans taking over possible future cleaning, working, babysitting robots and possibly killing someone through that. Now that's scary.

[sniperkiller 0]

I think it will be possible in the far future, not the close future since we are not so far yet in developping such programs or machines

 

the creation of robots / computers have two sides:

- hardware

- software

 

nowadays people are trying to make the shape of robots more humanoid, but the functionality of its form plays a huge toll

creating it more like a human, makes it also more fragile in some parts, and also it needs a lot more machinery

imagine if they try to remake the human hand, it would take a lot of tiny parts and nothing said about the amount of power those robo hands would have; robo crime in making ^^

 

before an AI would even try to conquer the earth, it would need some sort of programmation in its code that allows itself to create new code and improve it. a group of programmers would be required in order to create such code

the movie I-Robot shows only a small part about what could happen to the world, terminator shows again the bad part of robo creation and coding but in this case the worst part

 

what the future will give us also depends on us, the future programmers or evil-masterminds ^^

probably if computers or robots would take over, can be the result of a research project done by the the world leaders

[sylenzednuke 0]

I don't think it is quite possible for computers to take over this world and the people above me have already stated very good reasons.
AI can be directed to improve itself by seeing things but I don't think it is possible for AI to have "creativity" in it though. Even the robots in military or something, take an example of a robot who is designed to save humans, they don't have the creativity to decide, it's we who feed into them how to make out which has higher chances of living and then save that person. And the way the AI will be calculating those chances are based on some parameters that we will set, AI won't ever be able to discover the will power of a person to live and I don't think even we can code that into AI so I don't think AI will ever be so creative to think on it's own without any parameters set by us.
And the disaster in I,robot was because V.I.K.I. was designed without the 3 laws integrated into it. If we don't ever have someone to commit that same mistake, we can very well "save this Earth".
Though I even somewhat agree to Zues on this-

For a AI to try to conquer the Earth it would need AI coding for philosophizing, but then an AI specific in that would have no capabilities other then that. An AI can't just expand it's code to give it AI code for anything else, since that would be creativity and computers can't have that. I'm more afraid of some viruses or trojans taking over possible future cleaning, working, babysitting robots and possibly killing someone through that. Now that's scary.

That I think is something we could be worrying about. Edited February 4, 2007 by sylenzednuke (see edit history)