[fuzzybutt]

Not going to happen anytime soon and the reason is because it is near impossible to teach a computer to make judgment calls. After all it was only last year that a computer controlled car could finish a course by its self. And driving is very simple compared to independent thought.

The other thing is do you really want smart machines? Did you ever see the movie The Terminator?

[combat_boots]

And here I thought the parrotting of Soros’ words on TOTUS and out of Reid’s & Pelosi’s mouths simply demonsrated SkyNet is already aware.

[RogerFGay]

Some of this stuff seems to go slowly (in computer technology evolution time, which is actually quite rapid) because of the small amount of funding it has. It’s easy to think I’m wrong about that, especially when governments have put tons of money into robotics R&D over the past decade. But when something becomes profitable, that’s when the sales->competition->R&D cycle kicks in and you get a much, much larger number of people involved in development.

[RogerFGay]

And I also meant to provide you with this link; re: autonomous vehicles: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/27/driverless.car/

[Kirkwood]

“Judgement call” AI is already used extensively in medical screening and diagnosis and it has been for over 15 years. It may have even been used on you and your family.