Maybe we don't have to worry too much about Skynet...

[msbae]

According to one of the people who helped write the Obama administration's defense policy, robot technology is not quite there just yet.

http://www.slate.com/id/2218834

Hopefully, I will still one day be able to get a Bender robot that I can program to steal for me. That would be cool...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Really, the fields of AI and robotics just have a long way to go before we'll have to worry about them being any kind of threat to us.

Basically, until we can build something like this.

 

[Lindley]

Any computer science student could probably tell you the same....

 

[CuttingEdge100]

Still, I honestly don't think it's a good idea to be developing A.I. technology that's more intelligent than a human...

CuttingEdge100

 

[Lindley]

We're still struggling to develop AI technology as intelligent as a rat. I wouldn't worry.

As always computers are much better than us at well-defined computational problems. However, trying to leverage that power into decision-making skills is incredibly difficult. And getting to the point where self-awareness is even a remote possibility? It would probably require a very different approach from anything that's been tried so far.

 

[msbae]

Still, I honestly don't think it's a good idea to be developing A.I. technology that's more intelligent than a human...

CuttingEdge100

After getting a good look at the creepy robots on this page here...

http://gizmodo.com/5265901/10-creepy-machines-from-robot-hell?987

...I am agreeing with you more and more. That being said, it will be quite some time before the Cylons send a few sexy Six models our way to conquer the world.

 

[Trekker4747]

According to one of the people who helped write the Obama administration's defense policy, robot technology is not quite there just yet.

http://www.slate.com/id/2218834

Hopefully, I will still one day be able to get a Bender robot that I can program to steal for me. That would be cool...

Sure.

That's what they WANT us to think!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Still, I honestly don't think it's a good idea to be developing A.I. technology that's more intelligent than a human...

CuttingEdge100

After getting a good look at the creepy robots on this page here...

http://gizmodo.com/5265901/10-creepy-machines-from-robot-hell?987

...I am agreeing with you more and more. That being said, it will be quite some time before the Cylons send a few sexy Six models our way to conquer the world.

Making robots that look quasi-human and can somewhat mimic human movements is nowhere near any kind of self-aware AI. Things like Skynet and Cylons will remain strictly science fiction for a long time to come, unless we have some kind of remarkable, unforeseen breakthrough in AI research--and I wouldn't hold my breath on that.